Sunday, November 25, 2007

Cloth Butt!

Yep, nearly everyone thought we were crazy when I said we were going to use cloth diapers...but I'm here to say that we're doing it...and it's so easy! No nasty wet pail to deal with - we just toss all the dirties into the washer and they come out nice and fluffy clean :) What's a few extra loads of laundry each week? Nothin'! We're saving a bunch too - we've only bought 2 packages of disposable diapers ...we're using those on the overnights, but I imagine soon we'll start using cloth overnight too.

This diaper is just for looks - we didn't like how it fit, so I'm going to be selling it, but it looked cute for the pictures!





Caught her mid sneeze on this one!



And this is the diapers we're using mainly - the fuzzibunz. Even Richie is proud to say that he likes using the cloth diapers for Laura! She has pink, lavender, kelly green, bright blue, baby blue, sage, butter, and white dipes :)



Larua and I went and visited her daycare last week. We got there at naptime so everyone was asleep. That let Lynn hold Laura for a bit before the kids started to wake up. Once Laura starts, there will be 10 kids MWF and 9 kids T/Th. Then there are a couple of older kids who get off the bus in the afternoon who are like 11 years old. The next kid closest to Laura's age turns 1 next month - so there's quite a gap. Should give Lynn enough time to spend holding Laura if she needs to... since there aren't other really little ones who would need the same attention. We met Olivia - a 2 year old adopted from Guatemala, Braden - the 1 year old boy, Lana - almost 2, Lyndsey - 5 year old who should have gone to kindegarden this year!, and Gracie - a very talkative 3 year old, and Morgan - the 11 year old when she got off the bus... the other kids didn't wake up while we were there. We'll go back another day next week in the morning to meet them and see the play rooms. I showed Lynn and Jenna the cloth diapers and they were both really impressed! They'll have no problems using them :) Lynn said she takes out 5 full garbage bags of diapers to the curb each week! yuck!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was talking with Sarah last night about cloth diapers. I was telling her I would deffinatly try them, especially since you were having such good luck with them.
You know I will do anything to save money.

Andrea said...

Wow! My first (maybe) cloth convert! :) When the time comes Debbie, just ask me and I'm sure by then I'll have it all figured out and be able to share lots of tips - as well as helpful websites!