Thirsties Baby

I’d like to start this blog by saying, for some of you, this may be TMI, as in “too much information,” but as I’ve said before, we cloth-diapering moms are not typically overly-squeamish so with that warning, I’ll continue.

After 23 months, I just had a visit from Aunt Flo.  That’s right. My monthly. My cycle. My friend. My period. After over nine months of pregnancy and then 14 months of breastfeeding (and still going strong, thank you very much) I wasn’t sure if I would ever get it again. And truth be told, I hadn’t missed it at all.

So anyway, as I was dealing with Aunt Flo and getting ready to use a maxi-pad, into the bathroom walks my four-year-daughter, Kate–Mommy wants privacy? What a ridiculous concept. Anyway, curious Kate asked about the “diaper” I was  holding. After I gave her a very… Read More

My husband and I thought that our family was complete with our two girls, Lauren now six and a half, and Kate, who just turned four. Imagine our surprise when we learned we were expecting a third.  And our shock when we found out I was carrying a boy!

We were both thrilled to see the boy parts on the ultrasound. We couldn’t believe it. We had been so sure we would have another girl. And we were fine with another girl. We know girls. We love baby girls and we already have lots of pink.  I was interested to see, other than the obvious, how boys and girls are different as babies, before the pressures and expectations of society’s gender rules would affect their behavior.

For Cooper’s newborn months, he was a sweet baby, rather androgynous as most babies are, and the only differences… Read More

So I recently wrote a blog called Owen: A Cloth-Diaper Wearing Baby Potty Trained by 18 Months. In it I describe how my sister successfully trained her son by introducing the potty when Owen was around one.  Cooper turned one in February and so I brought it out.  The Potty.

When Cooper was 11 months, I decided to try putting him on the big potty, with the potty-seat on so he wouldn’t fall in. I wasn’t expecting him to pee but I wanted to let him give it a try.  Much to my dismay, he arched his back, straightened his legs and began shrieking.  I picked him up and he clung to me, looking at the potty with a mixture of fear and loathing.  I tried again.  This time he was holding onto me so tightly his knuckles were white. I gave up trying… Read More

Spring is finally here in Colorado!  The flowering trees decorate the streets in creams and mauves, the leaves on the trees are getting a little bigger and a little greener every day, and the lawn almost needs to be mowed.  The warmer weather means that the kids and I are spending more and more time in our backyard and this is a blessing since we have a small house. I’d much prefer to have the kids bouncing on the trampoline than the couch and swinging on the rope swing rather than from the chandelier!

What else does spring bring? Weather warm enough to start drying some of my laundry outdoors–including my Thirsties Cloth Diapers! Though I’ve asked my husband several times (ahem–hint, hint) he’s yet to get around to putting up a clothes line for me.  So instead, I end up draping clothes and… Read More

This week is Spring Break. We flew to Orlando from Colorado, not for Disney, but to visit family–a brother, a sister and my parents. Having grandparents and aunts and uncles that mostly live in other states means that most of the traveling we do is to see family.  It’s nice that we can see so much family on this one trip.  We will be celebrating Kate’s 4th birthday while we are here, as well as having an early Easter.  Today we drove an hour to meet a high school friend of mine at the beach. Getting three little kids ready for a few hours at the beach–a fiasco!

It took us well over an hour to pack the bags, dress and feed the kids and load up the crew in our rented minivan. We still had to stop at a store to pick up snacks,… Read More