Do You Have to Dress Babies?

Bath Robe
Originally uploaded by deirdred75.

Nathaniel is an English baby, and as his Aunt Kate informed us, the English love their bath robes/dressing gowns. So thanks to his doting aunt, he now has a proper English dressing gown.

It's a good thing he has the bath robe because it is proving very useful during what I now call poop storm 2005. We kept at baby rice this week and each day Nathaniel has liked it more and eaten more of it. Today he drank formula out of his cup. But the introduction of solid foods and formula to his diet has meant a whole new world in the diaper arena. Yesterday he went three times in rapid succession, requiring two entire changes of outfits. He waited all day to reward me today, but it was as if no diaper could contain him. It was everywhere. We're now moving him up to walker sized diapers in the hopes this will provide a better containment system.

But for now Nathaniel looks content to live in his dressing gown. He's lying on the floor while I type this now, grabbing his toes, flinging his arms, and making his happy raspberry noises at everything in the room. Maybe I can just avoid this whole problem by keeping him in a semi-naked state all day ... I don't know how he'll look running to the grocery store dressed like this.