At making a diaper.

I already love my BumGenius One-Size pocket diapers, but this organic, one-size, all-in-one diaper looks pretty dang awesome. It’s pricey, but it’s worth like 3 or 4 diapers since it’s one-size.

I decided to take pictures of my diaper stash today. I tried to get them all clean at the same time, but there are a couple BumGenius ones missing from the collection.

Here’s what I’ve got. I’ve got two Thirsties covers in red and blue, a bummis super snap cover and a prorap cover below that, and then a Dream-Eze AIO (All in one) diaper. I already have prefolds in the covers. Next to all those are my BumGenius One-Size pocket diapers. The pink ones are Kyrie’s (obviously) which she wears at nighttime. They’re on the biggest snap-setting, whereas Antonio’s are still on the smallest. On the bottom of the pic are some prefolds and cloth wipes (aka baby washcloths) that kinda got cut off because they’re not as cute/interesting.

They don’t quite all fit in this drawer…most of them do.

Here’s Antonio modeling the Dream-Eze AIO. I would like these diapers even more if they came in cuter colors.

And here I am at the park with Nio in the moby wrap, sleeping.

I think they look sooo cute, but I’ve heard some less than stellar reviews of these diapers. Anyone tried them and had good success with them?

Here are the ones I’m eyeing:

Waaahh! They’re CUTE. I want them to work well, too.

I decided to branch out and get some diaper covers for Antonio. I just place a trifolded prefold in these and fasten them. It helps space out how often I need to do diaper laundry. And I got covers in primary colors. I overall prefer my BumGenius pocket diapers (can’t beat them when it comes to absorbancy), but I really like the brighter colors with these covers. Oh, by the way, they’re Thirsties covers. If you cloth diaper and have been thinking about trying them, just FYI, they run REALLY big. I ordered smalls and Antonio will definitely be wearing these for a long time.

So I thought I’d give a little update on our life while I have a minute.

Antonio is 1 month and 1 week old today. I have no idea how that happened! Time has really flown by. Antonio has been a good baby, but not nearly as easy as Kyrie. Part of it, I’m sure, has to do with the fact that he can’t get my undivided attention like Kyrie could. So the poor guy cries more. But he is also a very smiley baby, and has been smiling regularly since he was 2 weeks old. He gave me his first smile at only 6 days old. He even giggles sometimes and he coos all the time. He loves staring at the pictures on the wall. He also has quite a strong sucking instinct, so although I’d planned to go pacifier-free with him, I caved in and got him one. He’s a lot happier now. I decided that it was better to give him a pacifier sometimes than to let him cry when I couldn’t get to him right away. I realize that I’ve now broken the rules of ecological breastfeeding and likely won’t be able to, well, keep my cycles away for long…but maybe I’ll still luck out. He still nurses frequently, so we’ll see.

Teaching Kyrie to be a gentle big sister has been a bit of a work in progress. She really loves him and gives him lots of kisses and hugs, but she also tries to pick him up and sometimes just gets too rough when she’s not thinking. She’s adjusting pretty well, though, and getting used to sharing Mommy with another little one. I’m also learning how to divide my time so that both kiddos get enough love & affection. Kyrie is a really big helper. Whenever I ask her to get a burp cloth, blanket, diaper, or whatever, she’ll dash off to find what I need and bring it to me.

Cloth diapering is going well and is pretty easy. I like the fact that we don’t have to buy diapers or wipes at the store. I have to keep on top of the laundry, but it’s not too big of an inconvenience. I feel like I’ve gotten into a pretty good rhythm to make sure I’m never running out of clean diapers. They look really cute on Antonio, too. I need to take more pictures of him in them.

I love both of my babies so much and right now, I feel like our family is complete. Eventually I want to add more children to the mix, but for now, I’m quite content with my little princess & prince. I’m such a proud Mommy and I can’t believe how beautiful my little blessings are. Seriously, gorgeous kids. Okay, now I’m shamelessly bragging…but I’m betting you all agree!

Here’s what I’ve been doing lately:

Laundry
Cleaning spit-up
Nursing
Disciplining Kyrie
Changing diapers
More laundry

And I’ve got a crying baby and another one who says she needs to go potty, so…bye for now.

Kyrie’s potty-trained. Just thought I’d share.

First of all, thanks to Mrs. Butler for the assortment of cloth dipes! Got them in the mail today. I’ll be sure to put them to good use.

We received our BumGenius diapers about a week ago, and Kyrie’s been in them ever since. It’s gone really well. They’re super absorbant and very easy to put on/take off. Another thing that’s really helped the transition into cloth is the fact that Kyrie’s going #2 on the potty about 90% of the time now. Wet cloth diapers are no big deal. It’s the other kind that are not fun…but even then, I’ve dealt with a couple, and it’s not so terribly bad. I just feel a greater sense of urgency to get those diapers washed immediately.

Hopefully it will be smooth & easy cloth diapering a newborn, too.

Anyone have any detergent suggestions for washing cloth diapers in a high efficiency front loader? I’ve been reading, and everyone recommends detergents that you have to order online. I get that, and a biodegradable detergent is ideal, and I don’t think I’d mind doing that; however, it’s not very realistic, considering our past history. It seems like we don’t remember to buy detergent until it’s almost too late…so I am mostly curious about detergents we could actually buy in town.