Making the switch to Cloth

So I am making the switch to cloth diapers for bug number 3!  Honestly, I really just can't handle paying for diapers anymore.  It seems like such a waste of money to me.  I know that you need something on your baby's cute little bottom, but seriously disposables are like throwing money away.  At least that is the point that I have come too.  Maybe part of it is that my older 2 are only 15 months apart, which means I was going through a ton of diapers a month for a while.   So to save money, mostly and to cut back on our waste and be a little more eco-friendly, I decided to switch to cloth.

While starting to look at all the cloth options and what the cloth diapering world was all about, I about gave up, and I hadn't even started yet!!  It was so stinking overwhelming.  There are so many options to choose from and all the places to buy and what do you need to do.  AHHH!  Please make it stop!  Phew, okay I survived.  Thanks to a great website that I stumbled upon:

www.allaboutclothdiapers.com

This website I found really helpful mainly because it broke down the types of cloth diapers and introduces newbies into the cloth diaper world in a not-so-overwhelming-kind-of-way.  A couple of the posts that really helped me were:

New to Cloth Diapers

Cloth Diaper System

Diapering on a Budget

Recommendations

Once I figured out which system was the way to go, the next step was to figure out where to buy.  That is where this site comes into play:  www.bananapeelsdiapers.com  I was able to purchase everything I needed to get started and the great thing about it that she offers free shipping with orders over $50.  I am a big fan of free shipping.  

So what did I decide to get?  

Flip with Stay Dry Inserts

Econobum

Thirsties Duo-Wrap Covers (I picked one with snaps and one with out, just to see what I like best)

Mainly I am starting with the stay dry inserts and prefolds.  They seemed like the easiest route to start.  I was also given some BumGenius to try as well.  

My order is placed and I am waiting for them to arrive.  Hopefully I will transition well into the cloth diapering world.  

More fun Goodies from Grammy

So on top of the adorable pumpkin hats my mom made Bear Bag and Puppy Purse.  :)  The bugs absoultely love their little bags and shove everything they can in them and cart them around.  Check it out: 

Welcome Bug #3

Welcome bug number 3!!  Our little munchkin was born today at 1:32 am, he weighed in at 9lbs 10ozs and was 20 inches long.  So maybe I should say welcome to our BIG little munchkin!  We are doing well and looking forward to heading home!

Pumkin Heads

I found a picture of a little girl (who I don't know AT ALL!) wearing a cute pumpkin hat on facebook.  So I naturally sent it over to my mom and asked her if she thought she could make it.  Not only did she make it.  She did it in about 3 days and made improvements to the lacking design.  My mom is one awesome crocheter!

Bug number 2

Bug number1

Rule Chart

I thought that this was brilliant!  My girlfriend posted this on Facebook.  She just started implementing this with her 3 year old.  I think that I am going to have to make one of these charts myself.  I love the simplicity of it.  These are the rules.  This is what we do.  Perfect.  Way to go TP!  You are an awesome Mama and friend for this one!

Looking Forward

There are so many things that I am looking forward to:

1.  Having a potty trained bug number 2
2.  Having a yard...preferably with a fence
3.  Not living on the 2nd story
4.  Not bringing groceries up a flight of stairs
5.  Not being preggers (especially in this heat! yikes!)
6.  Having a wardrobe that 1. I like 2. Consists of more that 10 pieces
7.  Fall and fall things and cool weather
8.  Going to the bathroom by myself

But the reality is that is not my life right now.  Bug number 2 is struggling with potty training.  I am struggling with patience with him.  We don't have a yard, in fact we have a parking lot.  Lame.  Our outside time consists of chalk and bubbles, and walking to the playground or going somewhere else to play.  Won't it be nice to just walk outside and play.  I think so.  We live in a second story condo that we are renting.  (We were 'supposed' to be here for a year max, just passed 2 years here).  I have to bring the groceries up stairs because you have to go upstairs when you get here.  I am preggers and nothing fits well anymore, and after wearing the same clothes for 3 pregnancies in less than 4 years you really start to hate them...REALLY HATE them!  It is not fall or cool but that is coming soon! Yay!  And I probably will never be able to pee by myself in any amount of foreseeable future.

But that is okay.  Right?!  It is okay.  It is okay that things are a little out of control and not exactly how I would have envisioned them.   God is good and bigger than my list (which could have gone on WAY past 8, but I felt the need to stop at some point).  I guess it comes down to choosing to be content with some of the things that are happening in life and trusting that God's plans are perfect.  That's the hard part huh?  Choosing and trusting.  It is much easier to complain and wallow in yuckiness.  I want to cling to God's promises but it isn't always easy.  God will work things out for the good.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.  Romans 8:28

I don't think that I was in Paradise today.  

Anemia

My liquid iron from Germany!  

So the results are in and I am freakin' anemic.  I have the worst case that my doc has ever seen!  Awesome.  Go big or go home....that's the way I roll.  Oh goodness.  At least that I know what is going on and it is a pretty easy fix...lots o' iron.  Which by the way spinach it not a good source of.  I know, I thought that it was too.  Apparently it has calcium in it and calcium blocks the absorption of iron.  Who knew.  Vitamin C on the other had helps with the absorption of iron.  So I am taking my special liquid iron from Germany with Orange Juice.  As long as I don't go into labor tomorrow or have some sort of freak cooking accident I should be okay.  Otherwise I will need a blood transfusion!  Yikes!  I told you it was bad.