Happy baby-nursery!

Finally, we wiggled stuff around in the baby's room the last 2 days, and although we may continue to move 'stuff' around to make it right, we have a REAL nursery without junk in the way. Also, got our diaper pail and cloth diaper bag so we can do things the right friggin way. Awesome.

Also we got a desk for my hubby's computer stuff so that now I have my own desk for paying bills, blogging and sending out cards and such, and he has his, in the living area, so that he can do his stuff and still be with baby and me! Yes!

I take it back..

She had no gas at all this morning and she was just a grinning up a storm for me. Finally! I feel like I got a real all-for-me smile! Yeah!

my motto is

KJ's motto should be.. I only smile when I have gas!

Let the cloth-ing begin!

We finally got 2 diaper pail liners and bought KJ some diapers for Christmas. Soon enough she'll be in the 'medium' size and we'll be washing every other day probably. At this point in time we need to use up the size 1 disposables I bought a big box of, considering she seems to be growing out of them at an alarming rate. What the hell, kid? All the sudden Boom! She's huge!

Anyway, the diaper pail liners came in today, so we need to grab a new trash can and get started. Much better than the rubberma1d snap on lid container I was using.

Bum genius

We got one bum genius diaper from diapers.com along with the disposables I ordered. We tried it out last night, and it was pretty cool. the only thing is you have to stuff it with an insert. Blah. Then you have to dig it back out.

They do, however, have a multitude of sizes that DONT require an insert, and its more like a disposable diaper than the others we have. It may very well be worth it. It was very trim inside her clothes and didn't seem to be any different as far as fit or leakage than any of the others. The best thing is that the damn creator/store is just down the friggin road. We CAN go look at them, see if they have 'seconds' that might be a bit crooked in the seams or something, and perhaps get a good deal. I don't mind the other diapers, but they are hard to get under her clothes... which sucks.

It's happening... ahh!

Her eyelashes have slowly changed color, and voila! You can officially see them against her closed eyes. Dark lashes. Amazing.

Smiles all around..

So far I haven't really gotten a big supply of smiles from miss KJ. She does give a half a grin to her dad when he tickles her lips with a burp rag, or just his finger. When I do that? She screams her head off at me for not feeding her. Go figure.

But... I did get a half a smile (probably gas) when I was bouncing her on my knee. Guess she likes playing horsey.

Meet and greet...

We went Sunday and surprised my folks with a visit for their fortieth wedding anniversary. Saw everyone at church, only one person touched her face, but didnt appear sick and I wasnt about to yell at an old lady... anyway, she got passed around to my family, but they were all healthy. We also met the puppies. Everyone couldnt wait for that.

Willie liked her. He smelled her right away and tried to get into the playpen with her. He sniffed her like crazy and wanted to lick her. His tail was wagging like crazy and we finally had to put him outside so he'd not actually knock the playpen over. The other dog, Cole, was right beside her and didn't make any mention of her at all. Then we were changing her diaper and she made noise, and boy did he pay attention then, he sniffed her foot and later he nosed her hand. I don't think she liked that very much. Too cold. Anyway, she didn't know anything about them, but they will definitely remember and be looking for her at Christmas. They are smart like that.

Just when you think there's a victory...

My sweet baby of the day turned into an "I dont want that, no I dont want that, yes that soothes me for 15 seconds, no I don't want that" baby. In an instant. Her dad got tired of her not going to sleep and dumped her on me. I had just pumped, so I couldnt nurse her to soothe her and she seemed tired and hungry. Great. So I got out the bottle and what little milk was in there and tried to calm her unhappy butt down. It worked, for a while. But when you're sitting there knowing you're a pee away from having absolutely no diapers, and it will take hours to get more cloth ones ready, you have little milk and she keeps spitting it out, but doesnt want to burp, only scream, and you feel so alone, what do you do? Sit and bawl your eyes out right along with the baby of course. What else can you do?

fluffy diaper butt

Okay, so here's the deal. Bought the small size of diaper stuff to try it. I really wanted cloth diapering to work. We got them, got them prepared and I changed her 3 times in the hour and a half before she went to bed this afternoon. Not unusual even with the disposable ones. Not that much more of a problem with the change, I'm sure I'll get better at it. It's just a 2 step process instead of one and you have to wrangle the inner part to make sure it stays in the cover. The only real huge problem is that the diaper and cover is about six times the fluffiness of a disposable. Which is cute, no doubt, but umm, her clothes just aren't going to fit over them. Just looking at it you can tell. So unless she runs around without any bottoms on for the whole winter or wears a size 2T in pants with the cuffs rolled up a foot, it just isn't going to work. Granted, there are other options, and in theory I could buy them, sell these, try them and if it doesnt work, sell them, etc. etc. But right now, I'm exhausted, we barely have breastfeeding down and I think trying this out right away was a mistake. Unfortunately, we already bought the covers and such, which were most of the cost outlay, and they'll only work up to 15 pounds. Heck all of it is only good up until 15 pounds.

I will keep trying, but honestly, what good is it if your baby has to be wrapped in a blanket all day because she can't wear bottoms? I'm frustrated, not unusual for me, especially lately, and its' only been a couple of times, but the guilt is already setting in. I really really really wanted it to work and had no idea that they'd be 'THAT' fluffy. So what do I do? Stomach the guilt and use disposables even if it galls me that we're killing that many trees? Use these until she runs out of the 15 pound limit and go back to disposables after that? After all, they'd pay for themselves in 6 weeks or so, 10 if you compare to the cheaper diapers, and we'll be inside for the most part, so we can keep the heat a little higher and/or use blankets.

What do you think? Am I too frustrated too soon? Bravo for even giving it a try? Leave her nekkid and hose her down?

My little sweetheart...

My baby went to sleep at midnight, she made some noise at 3:30 so I went in and checked on her and put her laundry away while I waited to see if she would wake up.
She didn't so back to bed I went at 4. I went in at 7:30 and woke her up.
She slept 7.5 hours.
I got her up and she didn't cry.
I changed her diaper and she didn't cry.
I nursed her and tried to burp her and nursed her some more, she got hiccups and nursed some more, she sat and looked at me, and I finally went in and got her dressed and put her down in her crib. She stared at all the stuff in there, and she didn't cry.

And now she's asleep.Ahhh.... what a wonderful life!

Keeley is a ...

Mouse
Puppy
Kitten

If you could choose only one, which would you choose? And why...








She's a mouse because we are mice, oh and she squeaks
She's a puppy because she shakes her leg like a dog does when you scratch it's belly
She's a kitten because she spits (like an angry kitten) when she is REALLY hungry and mad because you're not feeding her already, dammit