Things you never thought you do before becoming a parent!

Things you never thought you'd do before becoming a parent:

• Update your husband as soon as he walks in the door on Micah's poop schedule. :)


• Have to take multiple trips from the house to the car almost every time you leave the house because you have too much to carry.


• Intensely study a poopy diaper (sometimes inches from your face because you don't have your contacts in) to determine the quality of poop.


• Smile and laugh at 4:30 in the morning because Micah's acting so cute!


• Determining if clothes are clean enough to wear by the number of times they've been spit-up on.


• Take a bath with the baby and not jump out of the bathtub screaming when he pees in it, but instead calmly finish the bath.


• Become a master of doing everything one-handed!


• Freak out friends who walk in the door because I'm sitting on the couch pumping.


• Take an extra 45 minutes to get out of church because everyone wants to see him


• Get peed on multiple times in a day, but since you brought everything but a personal change of clothes in the diaper bag, keep wearing the same clothes.


• (During Pregnancy) Become on a first-name basis, recognizable on site, with the receptionists at the doctor's office because you are there so often.


• Plan every outing around eating/pumping schedules


• Consider buying a second freezer because your's is so full of milk


• A good night's sleep suddenly means anything more than 4 hours in a row


• Become an expert on which diapers are best, and seriously hesitate to use any other brand than your's


• Take a shower at 4:00 in the morning after a really bad spitup


• Change your sheets at 4:00 in the morning for a same reason


• Laugh when you get pooped on...not once, but twice in a day


• Make a list of what you didn't expect about having a kid


• Have entire conversations spanning several minutes about nothing but baby poop.


• Realize that all advertisements about anything for your child are based around the principle that if you do not buy the product your child will end up stupid/injured/collicy/dead.


• Make a complete fool out of yourself in order to be rewarded with a smile....sometimes
  
• Pump his legs in an all out attempt to get the gas out! :)
• Sing "give me a burp, give me a burp!" to the tune of "Give me a break!" while burping Micah.
• Have "coo"versations more frequently than actual conversations.

I'm sure there will be many more that I think of as time goes on! :) Some of the things on this list are less than ideal tasks, but thankfully all the cute smiles and coos make up for it all. :)