Actual Human Poo

Funny thing about having children: it provides a crash course in crap.  Literal crap.

(Warning: appetite spoilers follow.)

Babies who nurse produce a mild, yellow excrement redolent of Grey Poupon (no pun intended).  Oddly enough, the end product smells a tad like movie theater popcorn.  Probably, that results from milk having been exposed to acid, with remnant undigested fats rounding out the buttery bouquet.  (Of course, individual results may vary.)

Anyway, changing many much diapers enlightens one some.  Brings one down to earth.  Closer to the soil, anyway.  As a friend once said: today's dessert becomes tomorrow's poop.  True enough... and very Zen.   Circle of life, or something.  Now the wee one has begun eating solid food.

With the entrance of solid foods comes the exit of a different kind of excrement: a whole new number two, if you will.  Solid food brings a revolution to intestinal flora and a completely new set of metabolic by-products (occasionally including whole, undigested vegetables... mmm.)  Not the cute little baby poop anymore.  With the recent addition of meats and fish to his diet, diapers arrive brimming with the real McCoy: actual human poo.

The little shits grow up so fast.