New diapers are here!

I ordered 2 of the new BumGenius Organic diapers. They're an all-in-one style which is great, but they're also a one-size diaper. After trying the first two I ordered enough to outfit Becca until she's potty trained, I liked them so much! The inner layer is organic cotton and oh so soft.

They look almost identical to the BG 3.o pocket diaper from the outside. The inside, though, is different than any other diaper I've seen. The "stuffing" or absorbant layer is on the top like a doubler rather than stuffed inside the diaper. It's sewn in so scattery people (*cough cough* me *cough*) can't loose it. When it's in the small position and medium position the doubler layer can be folded to lay flat. I really like this since it can be folded over in the front for extra protection for boys, in the middle for girls, or in the back for a back sleeper. Or anywhere in between. Love it.

One difference I have noticed from the BG 3.0s is that this diaper seems to fit bigger (although I believe they have about the same size range according to cottonbabies.com). Rebecca fits comfortably in the middle and large sizes of the 3.0 but the large size of this diaper is still much too big for her. I'm actually really happy about this. It means it should fit her for longer! How this would work with a tiny new baby is another story.

Here's Becca (and our coffee table) modeling the new diapers

The diaper snapped in the small position

The inner layer folded in the small position

Showing the inner layer sewn in on the ends but movable in the middle

Snapped to the middle size (which Rebecca is using right now)

Folded in the middle position

Snapped in the large position

And folded (or rather laying flat) in the large position

Rebecca showing off her new diaper

And this is what happens when I say to Rebecca "Becca, sweetie, show off your new diaper".

Rebecca's way of saving the environment?

No napkins, just use your Earth Day shirt! Also known as 'what happens when Becca eats spaghetti'!

Big girl bath tub

Rebecca has graduated... to the big girl bath tub. We decided that because she's getting so tall the ducky tub from a few months ago isn't going to cut it for much longer. So into the bath she went. It went pretty well. I was expecting she'd be slipping around but she didn't at all. She liked that she had more room to splash around. Naturally this meant that mommy got soaked!

Happy Earth Day!

Disclaimer: This is posted about a week late. Earth Day was last week and I apparently forgot to post this. But I figure the message is the same whether today or next week or next month. So here goes.

To quote a John Denver song (please don't judge me, I like John Denver!) "Celebrate Earth Day every day!"

I like to think that we're a fairly "green" family, what with the cloth diapers, the organic foods, etc etc but today of all days is a good day to stress the importance of the health of our planet. There are so many things we can do that are simple that cut waste and better our environment. It was pointed out to me early in the day that it's not really helpful if everyone takes a "green" approach one day a year. So try, in honor of Earth Day, to find small steps you can make in your own life to reduce your environment impact.

To mis-quote another musical legend, it IS easy to be green! Sorry, Kermit, you had it wrong :)

Park it, baby

A few weeks ago we took Rebecca to the park for a few hours. We went once last summer but she was still too little to really "get" it. She had a BLAST this time around. We went on the slide, the climbing.... things (what are those called???) and the swings.

It was crazy busy there, people everywhere, but it didn't seem to phase her one bit. Thank heaven we've finally got warm weather around here! Michigan winters can get too darn cold for too darn long.

The next day we went to Moomers, a local ice cream shop, for some ice cream. They have a platform overlooking the cow pastures so you can see and thank the nice cows that gave the milk to make the ice cream. Rebecca loves animals so this was almost better for her than the ice cream was. Although, I swear, this girl ate half my cone!

Rebecca's Easter egg hunt

We originally only hid one egg since we didn't think she would be all that into finding eggs. Turns out we were wrong. I ended up running around the house in front of her "hiding" eggs for her to find. She had so much fun!

We got Rebecca a couple of board books in her Easter basket along with a Sandra Boynton book/cd called Dog Train. It's a rock & roll cd for kids and it is HILARIOUS. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Bad little blogger

It's been like a month since my last post.

But I have good reason. Honest.

Last week Wednesday I got a call from my father in law that Brian had a work accident. He didn't know much information but there was talk of 20+ stitches and surgery. Thankfully he ended up only need a couple (well, 7) stitches and no surgery but he didn't escape without what I am sure will be a nasty scar on his thumb.

Easter weekend was busy but great. We met up with some of Brian's friends from high school, Josh and Megan. We hadn't seen them since their wedding in July 2006 so it was well overdue seeing them. We had such a great time catching up and introducing them to Rebecca . We didn't quite get Josh to agree to change a poopy diaper just yet but we're working on it :)

Saturday evening we had dinner with my dad to celebrate Easter. We went to Freshwater Lodge. The food was amazing, as usual.

Sunday morning we had brunch with Brian's parents (Mmmm waffles) and lunch with my mom's extended family. Rebecca then decided that she'd had enough fun for one weekend so we headed home for her to take a very long, two and a half hour nap while Brian and I watched the 3rd Pirates of the Caribbean movie. (By the way, I give it much better ratings than the 2 movie, if anyone cares).

This morning I got another one of "those" phone calls from Brian- he had a minor car accident. The notorious Michigan roads were icy and slippery (spring? ha) and he slid into another car. Thankfully it was very minor and no one was injured. Well, no one other than Brian's truck which is now resting peacefully in a body shop waiting to be fixed.

Now that it was involved in a crash, albeit one without involved (thank God) we are now in search of a new car seat. It seems like just 3 months ago that I was shopping for car seats for Rebecca .... oh wait....it was.

Rebecca stars in The Apprentice

You're

FIRED!

Go Gordon Go!

I'm over a week late on posting this but Rebecca wants to share the Dayton Race/Jeff Gordon spirit with everyone

What's that? It's Dayton day?!

I'm so happy! I love NASCAR!

I'm beside myself with excitement!

What do you mean we don't get to go watch it? That makes me sad!

Oh well, that's ok! We can cheer for Jeff Gordon at home!

Go Gordon Go! Yay!