Topic Shift

May 31, 2006

It's recently occurred to me, rather humorously, that Josh and I have undergone a huge change in our conversation topic selection over the last several months. Our dialog consists of things I never dreamed we would discuss so casually. We used to talk about all sorts of things back when we were dating such as music, school, future goals, etc. These topics of discussion don't rank anywhere near the top of our list anymore. Now we have much more important matters to hash over.

Lately our little guy has been routinely.....um, how do I put this nicely....dirtying his diaper in the middle of the night. This causes quite a problem, as you can probably imagine, because he wakes up with a very sore and chapped bum. We had such an incident happen yet again last night. Luckily Josh and I were able to detect it (Yes, by "detect it" I mean with our noses) when we walked into his room to check on him before we went to bed. We got him up and took care of the problem, as any good parents would, and put him promptly back to bed. After that, as we we getting ready for bed, Josh and I began discussing all the different things we could do to combat this little problem we've been having. We brainstormed together and tried to come up with some new creative way we could provide protection for his little bottom on the occasions when we aren't lucky enough to detect it, like we did, before the morning. After continuing on this topic for several minutes, it hit me that life with my husband certainly has changed since Elliot has come into our lives. I wouldn't change it for the world though. We love talking together about our boy...even about the not so pleasant things about our boy.

May 31, 2006, Josh said...

...and we still talk about music now and then. And then there are times I go on and on about history or geopolitics, and your eyes glaze over and I know you're thinking "Where is he going with this, and how soon can we move on to another topic". :)

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