Parents of the Year

Tonight deserves its own blog post.

It was the kind of night, where the events all lead up to the culminating event of four of us changing a poopy, blown-out diaper on the ground next to a parking lot in the POURING rain.

But let me start at the beginning.  We've  been wanting to go to a park not too far from us (that Anna loves) for awhile now.  Since Callie has had a really crappy few days being sick, we decided to try and go this evening so that she could have a little fun.  It wasn't raining when we left the house, but of course, it started pouring as soon as we pulled up. 

We decided to run for it because the park was like a cool castle and had lots of places to get shelter.  There was blue sky in the distance, so we didn't think it would last long (clearly we did not consult meteorologists).  As we were huddled in the castle, a very strong smell started wafting and we realized that Callie had a major poop blow-out.  Like a through-the-shorts kind of blow-out.

So I got the diaper bag out, and somehow, we had no wipes.  And no 2nd set of clothes.

After a few minutes of trying to figure out what to do, we decided that Chris would run home to get the wipes and new clothes.

But the rain stopped, so while we were waiting, we decided to let her play to distract from the poopy butt.

The playground was SERIOUSLY cool!

But, eventually, the poop was just starting to become even more of a disaster than it already was, so we decided to abandon the playground and just run around the field until Chris got back.

Anna doing her best to avoid the poop

He got back just in time.  We threw the diaper pad on the ground, Anna grabbed her hands to keep them busy, Chris held her legs up and I wiped.  And wiped.  And wiped.  And then it started POURING.  Like EPICALLY POURING.  So Dan was a quick thinker and used a frisbee as a make-shift umbrella.

We finished up as best as we could and made a mad dash to the car.

"I drive!  I drive!"

 And, unfortunately, it appeared that the rain wasn't going to let up, and we had to say goodbye.

Super cool castle park, we will see you later

So there you have it.  Feel free to use this blog post to nominate us as Parents of the Year.  We definitely rocked it tonight.