Naked baby emergency.

So. The naked baby emergency. As some of you already know, the Animalia, pobrecita, has some digestive issues. Again, pobrecita. Here's what happened on Saturday. Some of this is anecdotal, told to me by her Da, and some of this is my own observation.


I went to work on Saturday morning, leaving the Animalia in the oh so competent hands of her Da. She cried when I left and I was sad but there was no going back. Saturday morning I had a baby storytime so I had to be at work. I got to work. I set up storytime and a few other things. I waited. People showed up. Animalia was coming but where was she? I delayed another couple of minutes. Still no Animalia. I went ahead and got started.


Where was the Animalia? Well, she was fighting with her Da who was trying to get her dressed. They were finally ALL READY and at the car when her Da realized he'd forgotten the diaper bag. Back into the house and back out to the car they went. Then the dog escaped and the Animalia and her Da spent time chasing him. They got him back. They left for storytime.

I saw them walk in and head toward the back of the room. I saw her Da take her out of the carseat and say Hi to Animalia's Grandma and Animalia's cousins. I watched him walk out of the room with her.

I continued storytime. I looked at the door occasionally. No Animalia. No Da. Um. OK. I'm getting to the end of storytime.

And then she appeared. In her Da's arms. Naked. Well, wearing a diaper, not completely naked but certainly not wearing the very cute dress that I'd laid out for her. Hm. It turned out that she'd pooped all over the place and her Da frantically yet thoroughly cleaned her off but had neglected to pack an emergency outfit. And she stayed for the rest of the program. She stayed like that for playtime, she stayed like that for snacks. She was hilariously cute sitting in front of her tiny plate of Cheerios, naked, among the clothed children and babies. I said, "Pobresita, no tiene ropa, nadie le quiere" and another mom laughed.

Apparently her Da thought I'd send them both home. I didn't. She wasn't cold and seemed very happy to be there. The other kids liked her and she liked them. She even made a baby friend who kept trying to put random things into her mouth for her. She liked him for that I think. They'd end up in her mouth anyway.