Saturday, December 27, 2008
The Jane Winner Potty
Wait, wait wait... another potty post? (We're still not even thinking potty training here). Well, a friend of mine forwarded me a link to a new kind of potty. What made it so exciting? Why does it deserve a posting of it's own? It looks like a motorcycle....kind of. It's what every boy/daddy would want if the mommy said no to the Peter Potty. The potty even offers platforms for the feet to ensure that when the child stands up the potty stays put. Who knew that sticking bottoms was something to look out for when shopping for the little potty? The Jane Winner Potty is quite the find!
Saturday, December 20, 2008
It's almost Christmas
It's almost Christmas and all through clothdom people are shouting "I'm running out!!". OK, ok maybe the rest of the world is not running out of cloth, maybe other people do not do full loads of cloth diapers every other day after a long day of work. Maybe, just maybe, people have all that they need...maybe they have a better plan. My current plan looks like this, dump all the diapers and liners into a cold wash, then a hot wash, go to bed, in the morning hang up all the diapers on the drying rack, wring out the liners and dry them in the dryer. Get home from work and start putting the diapers back together. Whew...it's a lot.
Does that mean that I am giving up cloth?!? No way! I still love the cloth, what it means is that for Christmas Kevin is getting 6 new diapers and 12 liners (the stuff you stuff into the diaper). Lucky him, eh? I was searching on Craigslist for new cloth and found someone who was selling the BG 3.0s for $16 each and she had the new colors! (Kevin's favorite cloth are the BGs) Whooie!! My mother, very kindly, drove to this woman's house and bought the diapers and liners for me (what a mom).
So, day care and cloth. Our day care provider is awesome, we love her. She changes the baby every 1.5 hrs, almost to the minute (we get a daily sheet of everything he does). So, he can easily go through 5-6 diapers there. At home he goes through another 3 or 4....in two days that's a total of 20 diapers or more of the stash. I try to keep his diaper bag stocked up for her and that's where the stress rolls in. However, we do like cloth better than disposable and working and cleaning them isn't too bad. I think I'd rather be in charge of just washing them and not working...if I had a choice. But, like I said, working and washing isn't too bad.
Anyone curious about a current cloth count? With the new cloth coming this week we have:
1 Happy Heiny Medium (super cute Chinese print)
2 Rumperooz One Size
2 FuzziBunz Medium
3 Haute Pockets
5 Happy Heiny One-Size
18 Bum Genius 3.0 One Size
TOTAL: 31
We have retired:
3 Happy Heiny Small
1 WAHM medium AIO (I hated it)
1 WAHM medium pocket
3 Mommy's Touch One Size The Mommy's Touch are still for sale. Buy the Mommy's Touch and I will give you the WAHMs. I am so giving... must be the season :)
Well, I hope that you all have a very Merry Christmas and have time to enjoy all of the snow we are getting (12 inches so far this weekend!!) and to my faithful readers in Alabama enjoy the lack of snow.
Does that mean that I am giving up cloth?!? No way! I still love the cloth, what it means is that for Christmas Kevin is getting 6 new diapers and 12 liners (the stuff you stuff into the diaper). Lucky him, eh? I was searching on Craigslist for new cloth and found someone who was selling the BG 3.0s for $16 each and she had the new colors! (Kevin's favorite cloth are the BGs) Whooie!! My mother, very kindly, drove to this woman's house and bought the diapers and liners for me (what a mom).
So, day care and cloth. Our day care provider is awesome, we love her. She changes the baby every 1.5 hrs, almost to the minute (we get a daily sheet of everything he does). So, he can easily go through 5-6 diapers there. At home he goes through another 3 or 4....in two days that's a total of 20 diapers or more of the stash. I try to keep his diaper bag stocked up for her and that's where the stress rolls in. However, we do like cloth better than disposable and working and cleaning them isn't too bad. I think I'd rather be in charge of just washing them and not working...if I had a choice. But, like I said, working and washing isn't too bad.
Anyone curious about a current cloth count? With the new cloth coming this week we have:
1 Happy Heiny Medium (super cute Chinese print)
2 Rumperooz One Size
2 FuzziBunz Medium
3 Haute Pockets
5 Happy Heiny One-Size
18 Bum Genius 3.0 One Size
TOTAL: 31
We have retired:
3 Happy Heiny Small
1 WAHM medium AIO (I hated it)
1 WAHM medium pocket
3 Mommy's Touch One Size The Mommy's Touch are still for sale. Buy the Mommy's Touch and I will give you the WAHMs. I am so giving... must be the season :)
Well, I hope that you all have a very Merry Christmas and have time to enjoy all of the snow we are getting (12 inches so far this weekend!!) and to my faithful readers in Alabama enjoy the lack of snow.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Uncle Matt just made it.....
Today was a day of firsts for us (there will be a lot of mention of dirty things...you may not want to read beyond this line).
First off, this morning at church, the baby decided to go #2 twice. Well, maybe only once, but I changed him thinking he was done....then I got the look from him (sigh). I was attempting to check people in and get the nursery area set up for the 8:30 service and didn't really have time to change him right then. One of the infant room workers offered to change him for me. I politely declined and mentioned the mess that I knew would be in his pants. This worker was persistent and said that he really didn't mind. I quickly gave him the run down of cloth and how it mixes with #2. The end of the tale is this worker ended up shaking the excess into the toilet (even after I told him that I would do it later). What a guy!!
Our next first, happened after church, Uncle Matt came over to babysit while Kevin and I went to a musical (How the Grinch Stole Christmas...super cute). I gave Uncle Matt a quick run down of cloth type necessities (when I first told him that we would be using cloth last year he claimed that he would put him in disposables before using the cloth). He said that he was fine with everything and we left. We got back and the baby had on a new outfit....which was more of an adventure for Uncle Matt than the diapering! He managed to change him twice and only one leak....not too bad!
Soon after he left our little man was ready for a nap and I changed him. As I was opening the diaper to the 3rd mess of the day, I started wiping and noticed that it was up his backside, on the changing table (in a huge quantity) and all over his body (the last first). Since he was in cloth, I was surprised that the explosion happened. Needless to say the tub was the preferred method of cleaning and the nap had to wait. Uncle Matt should be so thankful...although it could be his fault!!
First off, this morning at church, the baby decided to go #2 twice. Well, maybe only once, but I changed him thinking he was done....then I got the look from him (sigh). I was attempting to check people in and get the nursery area set up for the 8:30 service and didn't really have time to change him right then. One of the infant room workers offered to change him for me. I politely declined and mentioned the mess that I knew would be in his pants. This worker was persistent and said that he really didn't mind. I quickly gave him the run down of cloth and how it mixes with #2. The end of the tale is this worker ended up shaking the excess into the toilet (even after I told him that I would do it later). What a guy!!
Our next first, happened after church, Uncle Matt came over to babysit while Kevin and I went to a musical (How the Grinch Stole Christmas...super cute). I gave Uncle Matt a quick run down of cloth type necessities (when I first told him that we would be using cloth last year he claimed that he would put him in disposables before using the cloth). He said that he was fine with everything and we left. We got back and the baby had on a new outfit....which was more of an adventure for Uncle Matt than the diapering! He managed to change him twice and only one leak....not too bad!
Soon after he left our little man was ready for a nap and I changed him. As I was opening the diaper to the 3rd mess of the day, I started wiping and noticed that it was up his backside, on the changing table (in a huge quantity) and all over his body (the last first). Since he was in cloth, I was surprised that the explosion happened. Needless to say the tub was the preferred method of cleaning and the nap had to wait. Uncle Matt should be so thankful...although it could be his fault!!
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