Mr Mom's first post

Hello world!

I've decided to set up a new blog. No it's nothing to do with fitness, nor is it to do with my beloved Canucks (altho both will make frequent guest appearances!)

The point of this blog will be to chronicle the next 10.5 weeks as I take on the duties of Mr Mom. My beloved wife is unfortunately away at this time and I have taken the task to take care of our just turned 9 month old baby boy, Jalen. This will also allow me to share with my wife our daily lives.

More than just for record keeping, this will help recount the events on a daily basis and as I have found out just 3 days in, everyday is an adventure!

To catch up, i'll give a brief breakdown of the past 3 days

Day 1 - Wife leaves, Jalen is sad. Jalen eats a lot. I try frantically to keep track of feedings/grocery lists/cleaning and my own workouts which unfortunately is a fail for this Monday.

Day 2 - Lack of sleep as Jalen was awake for the better part of the night and it's a 5:30am wake up call as we're going to be on TV on Breakfast television today. It's a tv bit about the latest political elections and the baby's are due for a crawl off. I'm super nervous as this will be my first outing with Jalen by myself and I suspect I may have over-compensated as i brought 6 disposable diapers with me. Oh well. Jalen slept well once we got home and he was gracious enough to give me a 15 min nap.

Day 3 - Oh man the kid can poo. First off, I had to bring him to Mother Goose which is a community based gathering where I guess mother's go to bring their kids to socialize. There's singing and snacks and oh yeh, my wife 'forgot' to tell me.. freaking dancing. I mean c'mon, not only am i the only guy there, now I gotta hold my kid and dance to 'you put your left foot in, you bring your left foot out'..!

Either way, we survived that.. barely. I think Jalen got the worst of it unfortunately as they were giving out cheese and I don't think Jalen has had cheese before so he poo'd 5 times today. Not diarrhea kinda poo thank goodness but some pretty solid masses .. and the smell, geezus! Kid owe's me BIG time!

So that's it in a nutshell.. there's more I could've put it but it's almost 11pm and close to my bedtime *sheesh*.

Some observation's I've made tho

1) Jalen eats a lot - i'm always feeding him and when i'm not feeding him i'm preparing for the next feeding!

2) I suspect i'm going to get addicted to TV. The current fav is Man Vs Food. I mean c'mon.. how can you NOT watch that show? The guy eat's anything! It's also the current inspiration for the blog title!

3) To all those dad's out there wondering if their wives have it easy.. believe you me.. it isn't. Even if they make it seem easy.. it isn't. Just 36 hrs in and I'm suffering from lack of sleep, lack of personal time and probably getting fat. Not complaining, just stating the facts.

I love my son but I gotta say.. this'll be an interesting 10.5 weeks.

oh btw, the Canucks won against the Blackhawks!! woohoo Round 2 baby!!