What Happens When You're Lacking Sleep

I just put a huge load of baby laundry in the dryer. This load has received the special treatment because it required washing......twice. Why you ask?

Somehow, a diaper (not sure if it was clean or used.....yum) mysteriously made its way into the load. You can imagine my surprise when I pulled out a soggy diaper, swollen to three times its original size and leaking some jelly substance, after the wash was done. This required me to sort through each piece of laundry, shaking off the jelly, before I could wash them again.

Apparently, diapers these days have an absorbent powder under the meshy part that pulls the liquid into the core of the diaper, leaving the baby feeling dryer and helping prevent diaper rash. Well, when this powder gets wet, it also expands into a gelatinous/grainy mass. And when there is a rip in the diaper, like what happened to the fated one in the wash, this gelatinous mass will spill all over the place, clogging washers etc.

All the while, both babies are sleeping soundly, unaware of the chaos around them.