Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Adventures in Cloth Diapering



About 4 months ago Lee and I got fed up with the increasing prices of disposable diapers.  There had to be a better way than spending $40 every month on poop.  So we started looking in to cloth diapers, and after lots of research, we decided to give Fuzzi Bunz a try.   http://www.fuzzibunz.com/  We LOVE them!  Leaks are extremely rare, they are super cute, better for the environment, diaper rash is controlled much more easily, and best of all... they save us money in the long run! 

                                           It's a clean diaper.


It's really not hard at all to use these cloth diapers.  You dump the solids in the toilet and put the diaper in a water proof bag.  When the bag fills up you drop the diapers AND the bag in the washing machine .... viola you have clean diapers.  

Fuzzi Bunz use snaps to stay on the baby.  We like this because 1)we find them sturdier than other brands which use velcro and 2) it's hard for Reese to take them off herself.  We still use disposables when we travel out of town or go somewhere it's difficult to change her every 2 hours.... which isn't that often.  Now we just need to get the grandparents comfortable changing a cloth diaper!  
         

Friday, January 2, 2009

Happy New Year!!! & 1st Tooth

Woo Hoo!  Can you believe it's already 2009??!!  Lee and I stayed up to watch the peach drop, but then quickly went to bed.  We just don't have it in us to stay out partying into the wee hours of the morning anymore.  Parenthood is tiring!  

Here is what Reese was doing at midnight on her first new year.



1st Tooth!!!
Santa came late this year and brought Reese her very 1st tooth.  Her bottom right tooth popped through her gums December 29th.  She wasn't having any of the classic signs of teething, other than wanting to chew a lot, just all of sudden she had a tooth! 


Look past the food mess.... there's a tooth poking through in there!