Steve offered to watch Avelyn while I went to Adele’s to get my weekly dose of smut. I already mentioned how our girl had had an insanely fussy afternoon so I assumed she had all the infant anger out of her system.
You know what they say about assumptions.
I came home to see the living room floor littered with every baby prop imagineable and Steve crumpled in a heap at the base of the swing where Avelyn was seated, rocking back and forth with puffy, red eyes.
"So. How did it go?" I asked, gingerly.
"She bawled the whole time."
I glanced down at the ottoman and saw a decibel counter and a pair of earplugs.
"Her screams reached 107 decibels. That’s almost as loud as a rock concert," Steve uttered bewilderedly.
Only Steve would go to the trouble of measuring his baby’s howls. What a guy. I hope a week is long enough for him to recover from tonight’s trying parenting episode, since I’ll be high-tailing it back to Adele’s at the same time next Thursday.
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Oh no! That is so frustrating when you just can’t sooth them.
And yes… only Steve.
That must have been what he was up to with Avelyn in the shop when Granpa Bob arrived. He had her in the baby bjorn & was at the workbench. Bob laughed thinking he was getting her into the “Groove” early, but he was probably searching out that decibel counter!!!!
L, Sue.
Why on earth would you guys own a decibel counter? I guess because you squeeze toothpaste on counters and make sandwhiches out of them.
Oh no… poor Steve. I do hope a week is long enough!
Yay for Steve for hanging in there! I would have had a desperate phone call about an hour after I left wondering, “um, when are you coming back” as I hear the howls in the background. What am I saying “would have” — I DID get those phone calls!! It’s so hard because you desperately want to get away, and desperately want your child to cooperate with their father for what, 2 hours, and that’s not asking too much is it? I guess sometimes it is.
Travis will be very interested to hear about the decibel counter and glad to know about the ear plugs (that he’s not the only one).
At least a rock concert is fun.
And, it really is just a stage although it feels like it will go on FOR EVER.
It won’t.
Steve is hilarious. Hope next week goes better for him :)
At least it means your baby must have excellent lung capacity.
oh amanda, I laughed really hard at that. ONLY steve. At least he could make some light of the situation. If he was a female, he would have been in a heap surrounded by a puddle of his own tears, as well as Avelyn’s. At least she is cute. That forgives her for part of the screaming anyways! Hope you guys have a good weekend.
Love steph
Now he knows the truth. Avelyn isn’t always a perfect angel and he doesn’t have to get mad at you for taking abreak and watching passions. :)
And truly, as hard as it is…it’s good for him. But, I do hope it isn’t a regular occurance. As with almost all babies the evenings are the fussy period and she will grow out of it.
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