A post about Cloth:)

This is the vanilla, snap diaper

The butternut ?  I can't remember it's name, but I love its bright color, I looked it up, it's the mandarin

This is my favorite diaper of all, the wildflower! (I'm pretty sure that's its name)

Elliott and I decided when we first got pregnant that we would be cloth diapering our LO.  We do not have a ton of extra cash lying around, and it doesn't add excess waste to our landfills.  The search began for the perfect diaper.  We eventually narrowed it down to choosing between bumgenius and grobaby (grovia now).  Elliott loved the AI2 design, he thought it was silly and wasteful to wash a shell everytime she just peed in the diaper, aka, he didn't want the extra laundry. 

I realized while going through my pictures that I have hardly any of her in her fluffy adorableness.  This situation will be remedied once I have recovered from the post final coma that I have been in.  We just got some of the AIOs after the latest sale, and I am in love with them!!!!  I'm hoping that the daycare she will have to go to next year will use them, but we will see.  I don't want to have to pay for diapers in addition to the expenses of daycare. 

Kasi likes our cloth too:)  (She's our nanny if you are unaware).  I believe her favorite diapers are the wildflower and the AIOs (they are so easy and trim to use!).  We use the AIO and the vanilla snap for our nighttime diaper, we haven't had any leaks in a few weeks, and she stays in it for about 12 hours.  My smart little baby can take off the velcro and the disposables, let's just say it's not what you want to wake up to in the middle of the night.

With our skinny baby the excess bulk of her cloth makes her clothes actually stay on her body, when she wears disposables (my mom prefers them, I'm working on her though, hopefully she won't buy more once she runs out of her current box), her pants have to be rolled to fit.  Alice had actually moved to the second snap in the grobaby diapers, but she is back to the smallest size on both the grobaby, and our newer grovia diapers.  I think she is thinning out as she walks more.  She has some pockets that are much bulkier though, and they give her this huge fluffy bum, which I love to death, but I really like how trim her grovias are.  I easily see these diapers making it through potty training, and another LO, since she hasn't even moved up to the second snap now.

I will say if I had it to do again, I would have only gotten snaps, those diapers look like new still, while the velcro ones kinda' look picked over...  When we bought them, I don't think the pretty colors were available in snap form though.  I've also discovered Grovia has tons of sales throughout the year, and I could have stocked up more during some of them and had more of the adorable prints that are now available.  I'm still stalking the airplane diaper, maybe someday I can convince Elliott of the need for it..

Why is there poop everywhere?

The text I got from Elliott earlier, "the poop never ends!".  I glanced down at it while scribbling down random facts  on my heart notes during physio, and tried to figure out what the baby or the dog had done now!  Amazingly enough they were both innocent, that rarely happens.  Apparently our shower was backing up in the laundry room.  I do not understand plumbing, so have no idea of how this could happen, but apparently it can.  Even more interesting is that the washing machine, toilet, sinks and everything else will drain perfectly fine, so I thought it'd be a good idea to stick Alice in the bathtub as Elliott headed off to class.  I should never come up with any bright ideas......   Right as I pulled the drain on the tub, the dog took off running, I figured she had chewed something up and didn't want yelled at about it...  Nope, she was investigating the laundry room, where the oatmeal filled water was now gathering!!!!!  ARGH, the fluids never end!!!!!!  So, I rush to the laundry room, and stick my foot into my rain boots, and try to hurriedly mop the water up, no go, the mop is saturated from Elliott's previous cleaning job.   This entire time Alice is screaming and crawling around the house naked as a jaybird while I try to figure out how to get the water to not leave the laundry room.  I hear the neighbor's car door, and run to see if she can watch baby while I do some damage control.  She very sweetly agrees, and I frantically run around to look for some more towels.  I find them in a pile on the couch, we had just finished washing all of them!  Poor towels, they may never be the same.  Luckily our laundry room opens outdoors, so I held the door open and threw wet towels out there. 

I booked a plumber for tomorrow, I'm hoping the news won't be terrible, but I never want to try to clean the laundry room again, oh and to continue with the title of this blog post, Alice has left us 4 lovely presents tonight, one of them during the writing of this post!  It really does never end!


I still have to review the Physio heart lectures, and Neuro from last week!  This is going to be a long evening, though theoretically the baby should go to sleep sometime soon....



 Baby Alice with the quilt her Mamaw made

 Baby Alie Telling use she does not like to be placed in a pumpkin!

 And finally Baby Alice demonstrating her crawling skills at the Christmas party