Happy Birthday Bridget!

Queen B Cake

Queen B and Jim

Happy birthday to you!

Surprise!!


Friday marked Bridget's 30th birthday and Jim and I threw her a surprise party at PF Chang's. It was a lot of fun and she didn't expect a thing. Friends and family were there and we ate, drank, talked and laughed. We had a Queen B cake (story behind that) and went on to Eddie Haskell's for a few more drinks and more talking and laughing. My parents came down with my grandmother to watch Dunning for us - it was the first time we have gotten to get out without the boy. Well, there was one other time where we went to lunch for like an hour while they were here, but this was a real date. It was a good time had by all!

More Adventures in Cloth - Days 3-6

So, Thursday went really well and so did Friday with little incident with our pre-folds and vinyl pants, rigged up with velcro. Friday marked the appearance of the long awaited Yucky Ducks, which I washed and got ready to go on Saturday. He wore his first one and then went down for a nap and woke up all wet. Then today we went through all 3 Yucky Ducks before noon. Sigh. The first one went fine with a poopy diaper, but the second two leaked before the end of 2 hours, and he is in outfit #3. Double sigh. I was so hopeful these would be such a wonderful diapers. But it sounds like our pre-folds are better. So, I'm not sure what to do now. I don't know if I should keep trying the larger Yucky Duck (I bought two different sizes) and hoping it was just because the diapers were too small. I do want to get some vinyl diaper covers that you just put the pre-folds in and the diaper covers velcro shut. They do the same thing as the vinyl pants, but they're supposed to be easier to get on and off.

Wednesday

Dunning and daddy just goofin' around before church on Sunday, while I was working my buns off leading three children's services.


Dunning and Oliver


Dunning reaching for Oliver's blocks. TJ in the background. Oliver has the cutest t-shirt on. It says "Silly" with a picture of a monkey on it. Gotta get one. Carter's Outlet store in Branson apparently has them.


My cloth diaper creation (sideways view)


Cloth diaper un-velcro'd. I'm a friggin' genius!!

On Wednesday, we went to our weekly lunch meeting with our mom's club. It's a lot of fun. We go and have lunch (if you want to), feed the kids, and dump all toys on the floor and let them go to town. We watch each others' kids to make sure they're not wandering off or terrorizing the other patrons. And the moms talk. I'm really glad I found them, they are a great grouop of moms and so supportive and welcoming. And I'm glad Dunning has some babies to play with. Most of them are older, but they like to come and sit with him and it gives him the opportunity to be around other babies and socialize. He likes to reach out to touch them and try to play with the same toys. If they have a toy, he wants it. Guess that's an omen of what's to come.




I started the process of sewing the velcro on Dunning's diapers and the results have been very good so far. They work so much better than the pins and so much more convenient too.




This whole experience thus far has made me really greatful for our moms and grandmothers and aunts etc., who did not have conveniences like we do - things like disposable diapers and driers. And sewing is HARD! A lot of them sewed their own clothes! My mom made a lot of cute dresses for me and my sister and I know that was not easy. So props to you mom and all the other mothers out there who had it a lot harder than we do today!