Yesterday I was feeling stressed. The house is a wreck. The kids are really hyper! The baby seems to be sleeping a little worse. I am hoping it is just a growth spurt of some kind. So yesterday when I was at the store I grabbed some disposable diapers for the kids. We only have just enough cloth diapers to last us one day. So I am washing EVERY day. I figured this would be a perfect break to give myself. A weekend without having to wash diapers.

But the only glitch in my plan was that last night Peanut leaked right through the disposable and I had to change her clothes and her diaper in the middle of the night. When she woke up this morning she had a major blow out and there was poop all over her clothes and the crib sheets. So the joke was on me…I ended up having to do extra laundry anyway.

So all that to say that cloth diapers are AWESOME! No leaks, no blow outs, and much better for babies bum. And after using cloth for so long, using a disposable is weird. They smell funny, not clean.

And today is my husband’s birthday!!!! He is 28 and I love him and so glad he is part of my life!

I am a cloth diaper Momma. I am going to be really blunt here and tell you that in every way cloth diapers are better than disposables. They are better for baby’s bottom, better for the environment, and, best of all, better for the pocketbook. We switched Sweet Pea over to cloth about a year ago and I still can’t believe we used disposables for as long as we did.

So here is my confession: Little Peanut just started using our cloth diapers this past weekend. Yikes! The hospital sent us home with a few handfuls of disposable diapers and then a few friends who didn’t know we used cloth brought us a few packages. And when those ran out I pretty much made Charles go out to the store at midnight (yes…midnight) and buy some more. I just couldn’t bring myself to start using them on her. And here is why:

That’s right people. That is my laundry basket. I decided to not even show you the kid’s basket. And then there are Sweet Pea’s diapers to think about.  So adding another set of diapers to wash was really overwhelming. But I finally got over whatever it was (*cough*money*cough) and put Peanut in her cloth diapers!

Here are some pictures of the kids in their diapers:

In case you were curious we use a mixture of Bum Genius, Bum Genius Organic, and Swaddlebees Econappi. They are one size diapers so they fit both Peanut and Sweet Pea! No need to separate them. Although the Bum Genius seems to work a little better folded down than the Swaddlebees, but they both work. We also have one Bummis Bamboozle that was given to me by a friend that I love love love! But we can’t buy and more diapers…lol. So you know what to buy me if you need to get me a gift.