(probably on the carpet and not the wood floor)
So here we are, on the brink of yet another childhood milestone. Potty training. Or the more politically correct potty LEARNING. A bunch of my friends had had great success with 3-Day-Potty Training so I bought the e-book a week or so ago, got Jon up to speed and planned a weekend at home. Inside. Waiting for Violet to pee.
But first things first. This morning we got up, had breakfast and then started on the course to no-diaper-land. The book talks about throwing out all your diapers with the help of your toddler. However, since we do cloth diapers we aren't throwing them away, just storing them for the next little one. Violet LOVED this part. She thought it was great fun to move the diapers from their baskets to the box for the baby.
Alllll done!
Call me crazy, but I'm going to MISS my diapers. Those of you who haven't used cloth diapers lately may not know that they aren't your momma's cloth diapers anymore :) No more pins. No more plastic pants, no more swishing in the toilet (ew!). The new cloth diapers snap or velcro on and have fun waterproof covers that are thin and leak-proof. I'll admit that I've probably spent FAR too much time in the last 2 years thinking about diapers. Which ones I needed to have. Which prints had to be in my "stash". And in the last 6 months I feel like I finally hit Cloth Diaper Stash Nirvana. I had just enough to go 2-3 days between washings. I had a great selection of fitted diapers from my favorite makers like Thirsties, Clothmopolitan, Muttaquin Baby and Spooky Kitty Collective.
So it was with a lot of mixed emotions that I put Violet's last cloth diaper on yesterday after her nap. Yes, I did spend some time beforehand thinking of which one it should be. My "oldie but goodie" SKC Day of the Dead print with hot pink velour inner (upper right)? My organic bamboo velour mint green Muttaquin Baby (this diaper is insanely soft, inside and out!) (upper left)? The Katherine's Kustom in Pink Retro Apples (bottom)? And yes, I TAKE PICTURES OF MY DIAPERS! Rest assured I'm not the only one. My CDing friends can vouch for my sanity ;)
But we ended up in a newer diaper - one that we got just a few months ago and became a quick favorite. A Brown Retro Apples Clothmo. Here are some pics of Violet in what should be her last cloth diaper.
So today went pretty much according to how the book said it might. She peed a lot. We visited the bathroom a lot. Neither one coincided with eachother the way it should. BUT she took a 2.5 hour nap in undies and was only slightly damp when she woke up, not even enough to change the sheets. YAY! However I plunked her straight on the potty after getting up - nothing. When we went downstairs I sat her on the couch (on a towel) and ran to get some pretzels for her snack. When I got back - well, let's just say good thing I thought of the towel ;)BUT the rest of the night has been dry. She has asked about 37,938 times to go potty, and out of those THREE TIMES she actually went! Oh the party we had! The stickers she got! So I'm pretty excited to have three good successes our first day. Wish us luck tonight when we go diaper-free for the first time. Ironically this is the first night EVER that she asked for a drink of water before bed and drank an entire sippy of water. Eeks! I'm sure we'll have some wet sheets, and I will admit that getting up as soon as Violet does in the morning to plunk her on the potty does NOT sound fun (lately our late-sleeper is up at 6am)... however I really think tomorrow will be better, so wish us luck!
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