Game over.
A whisper escapes my lips, low and trembling, almost a prayer, almost a plea, a muttering I can barely recognize as my own: “No… no, no, no…”
The baby in my arms coos happily, entirely oblivious to the destruction he has wrought. I lower my head slowly, squinting, bracing for the undeniable, the impossible, the grotesque spectacle that awaits me. The diaper has failed. Completely. And it has failed spectacularly. The first blow hits me not with the shock of surprise, I've survived worse in my life, but with the absurdity of it all, the stark, almost comic horror of a father who has underestimated the destructive power of his own children.