Friday, August 15, 2003

An Early Morning Engineering Marvel
In the dark of the early morning you're holding a baby in one arm. He's just dropped back into a doze after you've stripped his pajamas off him and changed his diaper, which he'd managed to pee up the side and out of, soaking not only his pajamas, but his bedclothes as well. This is compounded by the fact that his mother has already been up with him about six times, and so you are trying not to wake her up by rousing him to another bout of crying. Sleep, you think in a sort of mentalist voice, you are in a deep sleep. The challenge? Change a fitted sheet in a crib without waking the baby in your arms. The first step? Find out where mama keeps the baby's linens!