One Size Diapers

Cloth diapering makes me feel like I know a big secret that only a few select others do. I don't know why not everyone does it. It takes a bit of trial-and-error, but after a week or two, it's smooth (and cheap, and blow-out free!) sailing. Thus, my mission to educate the masses.

A few weeks ago, I posted 5 Reasons Why I Love Cloth Diapering, which can be read here. Today I bring you 5 Reasons I Love One Size Diapers.

First though, what is a One Size (OS) Diaper?

It's a diaper with snaps along the front that allow you to size it to fit your baby properly. Because of these snaps, they can fit from about 7 pounds all the way up to about 35 pounds. Imagine buying one set of diapers for your child(ren). Ever.

Why do I love them? Let me count the reasons.

I love them because they're sizable. You can choose one "size" snap to accommodate the thighs and another snap or Velcro (very dad/grandparent/babysitter friendly!) to accommodate the belly - and this is after you have set your "rise" snaps to determine your diapers "size".  You can choose one row of "rise" snaps for your newborn and another for your toddler - all on the same diaper! Or buy the completely snap/Velcro free kind and have a completely customizable experience.

My Favorite: Bum Genius Freetime, (on medium rise).
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I love them because they're adorable! Why look at Elmo or Bert and Ernie (or whoever the heck it is on everyone's disposables) when you can look at your baby in "her" color? Oh, my baby is the only one whose "color" has already been determined? (It's purple, by the way.) Then look at your baby in YOUR favorite color!

I love them because they're cheap! OS diapers pay for themselves in spades since they fit most kids from infancy to potty training, and can then be reused when you have another kiddo, sold, or given to other families. Every time I change my baby I think "I just saved 35 cents!" and each time I look at a laundry basket full of clean diapers I feel like a millionaire! It doesn't take long to make back your initial investment.

I love their convenience! When the "Polar Vortex" roared through here last week I didn't have to drag my kids out into the cold to stock up on diapers. All I had to do was put on a pot of soup and snuggle with my babies in front of the fire. Similarly, I love that all I have to do is push a couple of buttons on my washing machine and I have a whole new "box" of diapers at the ready!

And last, but most certainly not least...

I love them because of the footprint they DON'T leave on our Earth. I'm not the crunchiest mama out there, but I do think about the Earth we are leaving behind for our Little's. Did you know it takes a disposable diaper several hundred years to biodegrade? Can you imagine the piles and piles of rotting diapers we're going to have laying around our planet in just a few years? Cloth diapers really help to alleviate that problem, and one size diapers are even more environmentally efficient - because instead of buying a set of diapers for a newborn, a small set, a medium set and a large set, you can just buy one OS set. You'll save money, natural resources and a little bit of the Earth, all at once!

Oh! I already said they're adorable, right? Because they are.

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Three Years? (!!!)

It seems impossible to me that it has been three years ago since my little G burst into the world.

How did I live more than 25 years before him? What did I do with all my time?

Someday I'll get around to posting his birth story (it's written, but should probably be edited for his sake, before it's posted up for posterity and all the world to see). But until then, here are a few of the things we love most about our sweet GiGi.

1. He's so sweet and patient and wants to include everyone in all he does. He very often asks "You want to join me?" to whomever is around as he plays or reads.

2. He's a great sleeper. We toss him into bed at 7:30 and he's good until about 8AM. Yes, I know how lucky I am.

3. He's so stinking smart it astounds me.

4. He can be reasoned with. Do you know how much easier this makes the tantrum phase?

5. He is, hands down, the most HYSTERICAL person on the planet. And he knows it.

 

Happy birthday, sweet baby (BTW, if you heard me call you that, you'd say "I not a baby, I just a boy!") - you make our world go 'round!

Suuuuuper Late...

Pipes turned 4 months like 4 weeks ago. And apparently I forgot to take a decent photograph. But here's her stat card, just the same (because I know you've been holding your breath)!

(TYPO ALERT: That should say she can put in her own binky if he's NOT sleepy. Oh, if only she did it when she was tired, too...)

Caught on Camera

 

Go ahead and judge my plastic table cloth. Way easier than washing every other day. ;)

Christmas bed head.
 

The carcasses of Christmas Present(s)

When I was a kid, my dad used to follow us around with a black leaf bag and we had to put our wrapping paper right in after opening a gift. It made me CRRRRAZZZYYY (and hello, OCD much?) so I LOVE that Erik doesn't mind that I leave the mess for a few hours after we are done opening. Nothing says fun like a huge mess in the living room!

Sweetly playing together, with the toy kitchen from Auntie and Uncle Mike.
BTW, those are new clothes behind them, not a pile of laundry I use to decorate.

 

Magwet Cars and a Doctor Kit

That's what G said he wanted from HoHo.


Santa came!

 

And lo and behold, he brought a doctor kit!

And Mom and Dad delivered on the "magwet cars" (trains that magnetize together)

                                     

It was a good year to be a little boy.