Queen Laney

Hugh, Laney and I went to have dinner with some friends of ours who graduated from North Georgia a few years before we did. They just happen to live in the area, so we made the effort to get together for dinner. Their three children were a hoot! The whole family had us giggling all evening long. It's good for us to be around people who have more than one child, because they are a few steps ahead of us and in a few years, we'll be there too. Laney loved the kids and they loved Laney. If you look closely, the boys have marker all over their faces, and all three of them also wrote all over their bellies. Laney wasn't with them when they were doing that. Here they are below surrounding Laney. She was sitting in a little booster seat and they were pushing her around the house on their hardwood floors chanting "Queen Laney!"



As you can see in the picture below, Laney was holding on for dear life!


Here's little Miss Sweet Pea quietly sitting in her reading corner with just her diaper on, flipping through her numbers book.

Speaking of diapers, I just had to take a picture of her cute diaper butt. Precious!

This is her fitted cloth diaper that looks EXACTLY like a disposable and even has Velcro on it for closure and elastic around the legs. It's made of flannel and it needs a cover. She doesn't have one on here.

As much as I love cloth diapering, I do have my moments where I am yelling at the poopie diaper I am spraying off because it's plain awful, all the while my nose scrunched up from the smell and site. I had one of those moments this morning. (How come all of my "stories" have to do with Laney and her bodily functions, as my friend Rachel so wonderfully commented about?) I was NOT a happy camper while spraying off the worst diaper known to MANKIND this morning. It was actually her second doozie of the morning. Mercy alive, it was B-A-D and everywhere. I was a total wuss about it too, but hey......it was GROSS. All over the cloth diaper, on the outside of the cloth diaper, on the cover....and I was using a prefold(the flat, old-fashioed diaper) and it was in every fold and crease of cotton. If you were a fly on the wall, you would have heard me yelling at the poo in the bathroom. What a wimp I was! Ha! I mention this because I don't want to paint this lovely cloth diapering picture for you readers. I do have moments when I'm thinking "oh, disposables would be so much easier," but all in all, those are just fleeting moments, and I'm quite pleased with cloth. I was interested in cloth in the beginning for the sheer fact that is was soo inexpensive, and we need that. But now, my heart has changed toward loving the fact that I'm helping keep the landfills of millions and millions of plastic, nasty, sick, ecoli diapers down from filling our land. I use disposables on trips to town, out of town trips and at night, so I do use them, but the overall majority of the time, we're in cloth. I'm quite used to the fact that we're a cloth diapering family, but I wonder sometimes how people "see" us when they find out that we're in cloth. I think, "Well, they think we aren't able to afford disposables." And ya know, they are right. They probably think "we're total "green" freaks." Hmm..not quite....but I am a "bohemian" at heart in a lot of things. As the days pass, I am loving more things that are green, but I'm not a purist in it. I've learned through this how to not judge "a book by its cover." I mean, I've always known that, but it really hits home now. So....is anyone out there willing to try cloth when they have a baby????