The Wood Between the Worlds

Mmmmmmkay...it looks like I need to give a little back story to those pictures of Oliver in my last post.

POOP is only on his HANDS!  Still GROSS!

I was feeling crummy and just having a bad day in general.  I finished writing the post about facebook, went into the kitchen to start dinner, and walked back into the office where I saw Oliver sitting on the floor with black marker all up and down the front of his outfit and his face, and he was digging through an extremely poopy diaper that I had accidentally left sitting on the floor.  See---it was a cloth diaper, and I needed to take it upstairs to the bathroom where I have a diaper sprayer attached to the toilet, to clean it up.  Not a huge deal when you have one or two poopy diapers a day.  But for some reason on that day it was like his 4th or 5th.  I was pooped out.  Literally.
So when I walked back into the office thankfully I was at that point beyond sanity already and I just started laughing.  I took him straight to the kitchen sink and dropped him in, clothes and all (seeing as they were so messy already).  I HAD to get a picture.  I thought it proved my anti facebook point perfectly.
So no, there was not poop ALL OVER him.  It was just on his hands.  And I think I caught it before he got it anywhere else...at least I haven't found it anywhere else.  (A little disinfectant on the sink took care of things there).
And at first I was VERY perplexed as to where the marker came from...but after I thought about it for a minute I remembered that earlier in the day Toby had a white balloon and asked for a black marker so he could color it like a soccer ball.  Hmm...obviously by the black smudges ALL OVER Oliver, he found the balloon and was playing with it trying to eat it.

10. They're so cute and colorful!  They're not our granny's cloth diapers.

thanks Eco Baby Buys

9. Less waste, a LOT less
8. No harsh chemicals on my baby's skin (seriously, have you smelled those 'sposies?)
7. Green. When I think about the energy that goes into manufacturing and transporting of each disposable diaper, it makes my head spin.
6. Laundry just happens to be my favorite household task.
5. The fabric is SO soft on my baby's skin.
4. No more emergency diaper runs (at 11:50 on Saturday night).
3. Saves so much money (in the long run).  Not just on diapers, but on the cute outfit the next aisle over and the dvd's on sale for $5 at the checkout.  Not to mention the gas to get to the store.
2. I can use them over and over each time I have a new baby.
1. Cloth diapers make me that much more self reliant.  If a disaster happened and I couldn't get out to get to the store, I will not run out of diapers.

But seriously.  ME, cloth diaper?  When Joshua was a baby a friend asked me if I cloth diapered.  She assumed that since I had unmedicated childbirth that I was a total hippie mama who would cloth diaper.  Those two things were not related in my head.  I never considered cloth diapering and I never would have.  But the idea got in my head.  And it stuck.

Then after Toby was born, our car died and we used our life savings to buy a new one.  And since Brent was in school and only worked one day a week, we had no money.  So my grandma gave us some money to help us get through that rough semester.  It was just enough money to buy a stash of Fuzzi Bunz diapers.  Joy!

I was actually impressed by how easy cloth diapering was.  And so relieved that my garbage can was no longer over flowing every day.  If you've wondered about trying it, I would say go ahead and buy one or two dipes and try them.  If you don't like them they're easy to resell, or you can keep them as emergency backup.  If you like them...well then you will be able to write your own top ten list.