Have hat, will travel.

(photo) Have hat, will travel.

Today I had to go to the hospital to get the staples removed from my incision. When you get a cesarean, they stitch you up on the inside and staple your skin shut--I have a sneaking suspicion that this is done only because doctors like to use as many tools as possible in the operating room.
That means that today was Adrian's first trip out of the house since he came home last Sunday. I anticipated the total round-trip journey would take 3 hours--one hour of travel, one and a half hours of waiting, and half an hour for actual staple removal. So I packed accordingly: 4 diapers, a stack of baby wipes, 2 changes of clothing (he's really good at getting the contents of his bladder on what he's wearing), 2 receiving blankets (he gets pee on those, too), a changing pad, plastic baggies for soiled out fits, and my breasts. As we were getting ready to leave, Aaron looked at the diaper bag and asked, incredulously, "We're bringing all of that?"
The good news is we didn't need any of it. Adrian slept through the whole thing, including our stop in at Labor and Delivery--we took the nurses cookies to say 'thank you' for all they had done for us last week--where he was 'oohed' and 'aahed' over by the nursing staff who hadn't seen him yet.
Because, let's face it, he's a really cute baby.