Going Green - for money and the environment!

Brynnlee has new diapers! We are making the switch to cloth - for both financial and environmental reasons. After a lot - a LOT - of research, and the help of some friends, neighbors, and very helpful store owners (yippee WEE LITTLE SPROUTS!) Brynnlee is all set with her supplies and now just needs a far more skilled mommy. Poor child.... what a hand she has been dealt. HEHEHEHE : )

The rest of this is what some might dub TOO MUCH INFORMATION - so if you want to laugh at our expense, READ ON, but if poopicodes upset you, LOG OUT! : )

The cloth diapers of today are far different than anything I picture in my mind from my generation and before. They have darling designs on the covers and the cotton that goes inside is so soft and absorbant. We have only had one 'incident' so far. Today we went to Toys'R'us to pick out Brynnlee's birthday gifts. Side note - oh the wonder of a nearly one year old.... she can go shopping with us for her own bday and forget in an instant what we picked out (except Mommy and Daddy are having trouble getting the doll to quit talking inside our closet - this might be a long two weeks!). : ) Back to the diapers though..... I smelled something yucky for a few minutes before I realized it was our own dirty child. Eric handed me the car keys and I headed out to the car for a quick change. I had brought all the appropriate supplies to keep with the cloth while we were out --- but things really went awry when I came face to face with a very yucky material. When Eric got out to the car Brynnlee had said bad material covering her legs, one arm and one hand - I had it all over one arm, one hand (and had wiped it in my hair, yuck) - we were both squealing. Eric, trying to cover his nose, started helping me wipe said bad material from our poor child. People were walking by, likely thinking we had just adopted a one year old, we were the child's aunt and uncle with no children of our own, or we had stolen Brynnlee from her true, more talented parents. OH MY. Let's just say all the diaper supplies I had so carefully packed are all in the washer as I type and Brynnlee wore a regular, disposable diaper to lunch and then home. Ack. It was baptism by fire. Such is life with a constipated baby.... that is no longer constipated. : )

Here is Brynnlee modeling one of her new diaper covers. It has frogs she points to over and over! And for those of you on tummy and thigh watch for her chubbiness - you can see how, sadly, walking has thinned her out a bit!

Have a great weekend - xoxo, Jennie


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