Fun day...long night...

Jack got lots of visitors yesterday. My gramma (Jack's great-gramma) stopped by with her friends on their way home from Birch Bay. They told stories about when their own kids were little and Jack snoozed peacefully while we passed him around from lap to lap.

Then Uncle Andrew & Aunt Gretchen came for a visit.

Next our friend Lisa & her adorable little girl Madelyn came to say hi. Mattie was so sweet with Jack. Here she's shrieking "AWAKE" because Jack had opened his eyes for a millisecond. He wisely decided to go back to sleep (or at least to fake it).
Things were going so well that Josh and I decided to join Andrew, Gretchen, Myke, Kevin, and Joey for sushi dinner at Osaka. Josh was going to meet us there after stopping by his CCA meeting. So, Andrew, Gretch, & Myke helped me to bundle Jack into his car seat for the drive to the restaurant. Before we even got out the door, he started screaming. By the time we got to the restaurant he was having a full blown meltdown. His little face was beet red and he was choking from crying so hard.

I crawled into the back seat with him, while everyone else went in to sit down. I nursed him until he settled down, but the calm was shattered by the giant explosive poop he took. I changed him on my lap (not the easiest thing to do while sharing the backseat of the car with a giant baby carseat), cleaned up, and fed him again. By this point he was so upset that he was crying while nursing. Very sad. Although not as sad as the fact that his little tear ducts produce actual tears now. This was the first time that not only did I have to endure his screaming, but also the big crocodile tears streaming down his cheeks. Somehow that makes it so much worse.

Josh arrived to find his wife in the backseat of the car looking frazzled and holding a screaming baby. I had already tried everything I could think of, so he tried some of his patented daddy techniques - jiggling, dancing, singing - all to no avail. I gave Josh my takeout order and headed home. The second I left the parking lot Jack went to sleep (not for long though).

He screamed and fussed on and off all night long. Seriously, all night long. I'm exhausted. Josh is exhausted. I can only surmise that Jack is too, although he did sleep most of the day yesterday, and probably will again today. Perhaps I will try to join him for a nap this afternoon.

At least I'm having a better morning than Clarity. She called to say that she had just uttered words that (pre-parenthood) she could have never imagined herself saying - "Please tell me where else you hid the poop..." At least we have that to look forward to in 10 months. Yay!