Monday, August 25, 2008

I couldn't help but laugh!

It was always my good intention to use nothing but cloth diapers on Goose.  But I let the lazy side of me win.  Now with the renewed spirit and motivation from my sister expecting in October and her decision to cloth diaper too I decided to give it another go.  I caught a super sale at cotton babies website for the all in one and one size fits all (through adjusting sizes with three sets of snaps) so that's what I'm beginning to use again.  It never ceases to make me scratch my head and wonder what the heck I was thinking when I would forget to put a flushable liner down in the diaper first before putting it on him because he would always poop!  I don't have the sprayer (yet) for my toilet so I had to be careful to "take care" of the diaper using other means.  Gross I know.  Well after picking Goose up from the hourly daycare so I could study for an hour for my Praxis exam I decided today was the day to go for it and because I had only a handful of disposable diapers left and wanted to spend the money on something else other than diapers.  :)  (It's crazy to be so selfish and unselfish in the same sentence)  We went through two cloth diapers until right after dinner when I changed him.  I noticed a very red inflamed bum so I thought I'd let him air out a bit and run around without a diaper and clean up his little tinkle messes.  Well after cleaning up two messes in the same spot within 15 mins I decided to try the adorable cowboy print fleece cover my mom made to try.  I put it on him and wondered what would happen next.  The two pieces of background info are: the diaper is secured with velcro and he just learned what velcro was and how it works because of his new shoes.  Needless to say I couldn't help myself when after saying NO twice to make him stop pulling his diaper off at the velcro to bust out in laughter after the first time resecuring the diaper he stood up proudly and double handedly tore his diaper off with a grin.  I absolutely lost it!  And instead of giving up I tried two more times to resecure the diaper to have it ripped off again and again!  By the end Goose was running around the house with one foot still carrying around the diaper laughing hysterically.  It's a good thing I was sitting on the floor already or I think I would've dropped to the floor laughing so hard.  We'll see what tomorrow brings.  I know it will bring more laundry!  :)

1 comment:

stella g. said...

good luck! i'd like to use cloth diapers, too. though i never thought about the possibility of the kid taking them off. yikes! hmmm, i hope it goes better tomorrow. :)