Lacey is making fun of me. I think that making a spreadsheet to forecast diaper usage is being prepared and trying to not be wasteful. There are a finite number of “N” diapers that baby Bailee will need. After he outgrows “N” diapers then they will be of no use to us. So I think an estimate about how many we will need is a good thing. Lacey thinks that I am a huge dork for making a diaper spreadsheet. I just thought that I could predict how many diapers we would need so we never, (I say “never” as loosely as possible,) run out. I simply got on line and checked for the average weight of a newborn, (7.5 pounds,) and started adding 5-8 ounce a week until baby Bailee reaches 10 lbs., which is the limit for N diapers. There is some discrepancy about how many diapers a baby will go through a day. The website I found said 10, but Matt said 100 a week (100/7 = 14.24) so I went with the bigger estimate. I think that multiplying the number of diapers per day by the number of days that baby Bailee is less than 10 lbs. should tell me how many N diaper I need. I think that making spreadsheets is fun, (and I know that in itself is a little dorky,) but I want to be prepared as much as possible. I also know that no matter how many books I read, I will never be fully prepared for fatherhood. However if I am as prepared as possible, that would be better than not being prepared at all. I think I’m rambling.
I also wish that my darling wife was sleeping better. She isn’t getting much rest and I know that the lack of sleep is hard on her and also hard on baby Bailee. I don’t know if there is a fix for this one. Any parent I mention it to kind of chuckles unsympathetically, as if to say “just wait.” We understand that baby Bailee is going to seriously change our sleeping habits.