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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Second time around, cloth diapering addition.

I didn't cloth diaper Penni full time till about 3 months old so I was super excited to put Cora in fluff from day 1. She's now 1 year old and never been in a disposable, kind of proud of that.  Second time around was a bit easier because I knew which diapers I preferred so I didn't have to waste time and money buying stuff to experiment with. The only, very minor, issue we've had is figuring out a new washing routine. With Penni there was a top loading washer, now we have a front loader. But that worked itself out very quickly. Some of the reasons we use cloth
  -It's environmentally conscious/ responsible.
  -Saves lots and lots of money. With Penni I spent about $600 on a stash, and when she was potty learned I sold it for about $200-$250.  So overall I diapered her for 2 years for just under $400. Can't do that with disposables, never mind natural or lesser chemical loaded disposables.
  -It's cute! seriously, adorable!
  -My baby deserves to have organic bamboo or cotton on her bum haha.
  -I don't like chemicals, I realize that you can't always avoid them, but I do my best with the resources we have, and using cloth has been an obvious way to lessen chemical exposure. Here is a link explaining the chemicals used in a disposable.

Lastly to prove my point, that fluff is cute, here are some pics!

This is 1 or 2 days old, aw how I miss having a teeny baby 

A couple weeks old, so cute, so little!

Our diaper stash, well it's a little different now but quite similar.

Cora is doing her part! her shirt says "changing the world one diaper at a time"

Those are wool pants (soft, not at all scratchy) wool is naturally water repellant so it makes a nice breathable cover.

Fitted diapers are my favorites, and that particular diaper is one of my all time favorites. 


If you've considered cloth diapering but are scared or intimidated by all the information out there, then please give them a try! It's a lot more simple than it seems, I promise. 
Penni and Cora, if you girls ever read this, I hope you'll cloth diaper your kids! I'll help.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Mother's Day 2014

Mother's Day has come and gone and it was a low key weekend, but I did feel special I suppose. Every time David is clueless as to what to do or get for me for some special celebration he suggests a trip to Santa Cruz. He knows I love that place and will always be excited to go, and it's always special!
We expected it to be windy and cold so we left the sand toys in the car not expecting to be able to play on the beach much. Well it ended up being lovely, but the car was far enough where we didn't want to go back to it for the toys. Penni didn't seem to care and frolicked in the ocean, got completely soaked and had a blast!
 

Cora played in the sand, ate some sand, kept offering Penni her sun glasses haha.

Eventually I took her to the water's edge and put her feet in the water, when we did that with Penni around the same age she started crying and wanted nothing to do with the cold ocean water. Well Cora didn't mind at all! She actually kept trying to wiggle out of my grip and crawl straight into the ocean, my little risk taker.

Went out to eat at one of our favorite places downtown, Rosie McCann's, that place just always serves up yummy food. It's technically a pub and I don't think they have any high chairs, so Cora hung out on the bench. Little opportunist took advantage of having full range of motion kept swiping handfuls of food from our plates even though we kept giving her food.


It was a lovely day, and to finish it up right we had to get some ice cream at Penny Ice creamery, Penni thought that was great! She approves of the ice cream as well.


On Sunday we all had a family gathering at my parents' house. Cora's favorite activity of the day was climbing the stairs. Repeatedly.

And some cake love for all the wonderful mamas, I hope every mom felt special and had a good day :)