Green Poop and a Long Car Ride

Strange title? Strange trip. Let's start from the beginning...

We are in East Texas this morning, in Livingston, for a surprise birthday party for my grandmother (boy, is she going to be mad!). Tammie and I left Austin yesterday to begin this long car ride, and it was all that and more. Over four hours in the car with a ticked off baby who didn't want to be in the carseat from the start. We made a couple of stops along the way and actually had to feed Bailey in her car seat as we drove, but nothing would seem to please her. Bailey cried and carried on, and Tammie and I thought she was just tired and couldn't go to sleep. It was a couple of hours past her bed time, so what else could it be?

Well, turns out it was poop... and lots of it!!! (It was green, too. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything, but Tammie seemed enthralled by it...) Not just lots of poop, but a diaper blowout to boot. (Enter the Parental guilt...) For some reason it didn't occur to us to check. In our defense, it was a backside blowout, so we really couldn't see it. And there wasn't that "pleasant" aroma wafting up from her diaper until we actually took the diaper off (so don't give us a hard time...we feel guilty enough without your help!).

A bath and diaper change later, and everything is okay... yeah right!

Bailey then decided she did not want to sleep at ALL last night. She laid in her crib for a few minutes, screamed. Picked her up and calmed her down, put her down, screamed. Enter the cycle that was Friday night. At one point I put her in bed with me (no, Tammie was not on the outs with me...there were two beds. Note to newly married couples: when there are two beds in the hotel room, DO NOT SQUEEZE BOTH OF YOU ONTO ONE. Enjoy the freedom of a bed to yourself...it won't last.), Bailey calmed down and went to sleep. Stupid me, I then put her back into her crib...screamed! Finally, around 3:45 in the morning, Tammie put Bailey in her bed. Everyone went to sleep and got a least a couple of hours, but Tammie, being a light sleeper, woke up everytime Bailey moved. Apparently she does that a lot in her sleep (she gets that from her dad).

We're awake and getting ready for this party. Oh what fun we're going to have...maybe there will be naptime?