Brian's mom likes to tell the story of when she told her mom about Brian and
his siblings starting to frost Christmas cookies
and dye Easter eggs as youngsters. "Oh, you're making memories," she'd say.
They continued the tradition year after year, including me when I
joined the family, and now here we are passing
this "memory making" tradition down to another generation.
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Sam's not the only thing that's cool. The high on Easter Sunday is only suppose to be 40 degrees. At least the snow we might get tomorrow will melt away.
and I can say with certainty that these are not at all like our mother's cloth diapers.
It has taken a couple weeks to work out the kinks in our effort to use cloth diapers on the kids. I wanted to wait until I'd given it a fair try before posting my comments. To reduce the number of items I needed to return I ordered the bare minimum at first to determine what worked best for us. This made it impossible to go cold-turkey on disposables because I ran out of wraps very quickly. The other complication was that Sam started potty training the week my first order arrived from thanksmama.com. I chose to rethink ordering diapering supplies for him and instead focused on training pants. The last of the four orders I placed arrived today so we are set - at least for now.
My overall thoughts:
I don't mind washing diapers every few days. In fact it helps me to stay on top of our other laundry that needs tending to. I think it's worth $8 for a hundred sheets of liners so I don't have to scrape poop. Sam is starting to tell me when he's wet, not just when he's poopy. Now that I've been at it for a few weeks diaper changes go much faster. I am thankful that Julia isn't squirmy at all or I might be in trouble. The majority of the leaks in the first two weeks I know I can chalk up to operator error - not the diaper. Julia had already outgrown her entire wardrobe before switching diapers so I was going to need to shop for her anyway. There really wasn't any going back to disposables because we invested all this money in cloth. I don't think I'd want to anyway. I have never experienced customer service like I did with the work-at-home-mom companies I purchased from. I know that whenever I need to add to my arsenal my orders will arrive very quickly. For example: I placed a thanksmama.com order at noon on Monday and it was at my door by Wednesday mid-day. Now that's service!!! Diaperware.com has also been a great company to work with.
Here are my lovely models sporting the Bummis Super Whisper Wrap over Kissaluv diapers. It turned out that neither of these wraps fit the kids well so I don't use the fun jungle print much and the one Sam has on will fit Julia sooner rather than later. I had many, many leaks with these so I didn't order any more. That was ok by me since these were more expensive than the Kushies wrap in the next picture.
Julia does really well in this Kushies wrap. So far I've never had a blow out. These wraps are much cheaper and the prints are adorable. I have two this color and a red one (see slide show)
Sam has really taken off in the potty training department. Good thing I hadn't invested much in diapers for him. These Imse Vimse (That's Swedish for Itsy Bitsy) are wonderful!!!! They aren't too bulky and are really soft. I'll be ordering more in the very near future.
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We had to move Julia out of the infant car seat last week because the straps weren't long enough anymore. It was also getting very difficult to lug a 20+ pound baby around. I'll miss the convenience of being able to use it as a seat when we are out and about, but I won't miss tripping over it in my house ten times a day. 
She likes looking out the window from her big girl car seat. 
Thankfully she can sit up well enough to use a high chair when we go out to eat.
Julia is exactly six months old right now. I'd be taking her picture instead of blogging if she weren't napping. I did snap a picture after I laid her down though.
When your due date comes and goes without a baby it can make you crazy - so crazy that you let your husband photograph you with horrible hair. Julia's due date was six months ago today. Little did I know that I only had to wait one more day.
