MAS is my first baby. And while I read up as much as I could during my
seven month pregnancy, there are some things book learnin’ just can’t prepare you for: like the way little boys love to pee whenever their genitals are exposed. A little pee never hurt anyone I figure, so I’ve been occasionally remembering to cover him up with a wipe during a diaper change and occasionally forgetting… At which point I either change him or just swab both of us down and go with it. But yesterday, on our stroll around the hood—christ! It was 60 degrees!—I saw this thing called a
wee blocker at
Area Kids on Montague Street here in Brooklyn. (I think you can also buy it at
One Step Ahead.) It’s basically a cloth egg that fits right over his penis. (Machine washable of course.) It works like charm. Necessary? Nah. But for ten bucks he looks awful cute & we both stay dry.

(And yes, he did pee into his own mouth once. But you know it really didn’t seem to bother him as much as you might think…)