On Nappies and Gold Stars
My new green BumGenius showed up yesterday, seriously, why did no one tell me how girly this shade of green was, I might as well have gone for a pink one. It's pristine though, and as I only paid $19 for it I'm chuffed. Not that anyone is actually interested, but I think Imay have worked out the perfect stuffing combo to stop him leaking at night - this is exciting for me, changing babygrows in the dark and trying as hard as possible to not stimulate him and keep with the whole night time thing was proving to be difficult.
I also got a massive parcel from one of the users on the NA forums, I made a post a couple of weeks ago asking about the best biodegradable disposables and she said that she had a pack of a brand that a few people had recommended and offered to send me a few to try them out. She sent me the whole bloody pack! For free! Seriously the girl gained some good karma points from that one. The way I go through sposies - I haven't finished the pack of 104 that we were given when the boy was born, then these will last me an age. Though it does make me feel like a bit of a hypocrite, here's me running a cloth nappy forum and refusing to let go of my back up disposables. Though I have decided when this lot runs out that I'm just going to pick up some cheap fitteds for when I've been slack with the laundry.
Whilst we're on the topic of laundry, I created a "Gold Star Plan", I don't know if it's just something that my family does obsessively, but my mum and my sisters all have fixations with these things, little charts with gold star stickers to help us go about our day... yes... this even includes my sisters in their 30s. Well, I began one at the start of the month, and promised myself that if I got a 90% hit rate on the gold stars, i.e. I did everything I was meant to do during the day, then I would buy myself a book that's far more expensive than I would normally pay for a book (it's a crochet pattern book) and that I've been longing for for months now.
A 90% hit rate works out to be 27 days - today is the morning of the 5th and so far I haven't got a single star, I suck the big one, and now if I don't get a star every single day then I don't get the book. So I can't have ANY slack days at all now. I'm kinda pissed off with myself.
In other news... Bedey Boy FTW, where does this kid get his good looks from? I'm starting to think there was a switch at the hospital, he gets more beautiful every day. It's those big eyes, I just can't get over them. I took this a couple of days ago, I had thrown a blue muslin blanket over the bouncer whilst he was in the sun and shoved my head under it to play with him, Declan thought it was the most fun anyone could have with their clothes on.
If you're getting bored of the baby photos, it's probably a good idea to delete me, they're probably only going to get more frequent :)
I also got a massive parcel from one of the users on the NA forums, I made a post a couple of weeks ago asking about the best biodegradable disposables and she said that she had a pack of a brand that a few people had recommended and offered to send me a few to try them out. She sent me the whole bloody pack! For free! Seriously the girl gained some good karma points from that one. The way I go through sposies - I haven't finished the pack of 104 that we were given when the boy was born, then these will last me an age. Though it does make me feel like a bit of a hypocrite, here's me running a cloth nappy forum and refusing to let go of my back up disposables. Though I have decided when this lot runs out that I'm just going to pick up some cheap fitteds for when I've been slack with the laundry.
Whilst we're on the topic of laundry, I created a "Gold Star Plan", I don't know if it's just something that my family does obsessively, but my mum and my sisters all have fixations with these things, little charts with gold star stickers to help us go about our day... yes... this even includes my sisters in their 30s. Well, I began one at the start of the month, and promised myself that if I got a 90% hit rate on the gold stars, i.e. I did everything I was meant to do during the day, then I would buy myself a book that's far more expensive than I would normally pay for a book (it's a crochet pattern book) and that I've been longing for for months now.
A 90% hit rate works out to be 27 days - today is the morning of the 5th and so far I haven't got a single star, I suck the big one, and now if I don't get a star every single day then I don't get the book. So I can't have ANY slack days at all now. I'm kinda pissed off with myself.
In other news... Bedey Boy FTW, where does this kid get his good looks from? I'm starting to think there was a switch at the hospital, he gets more beautiful every day. It's those big eyes, I just can't get over them. I took this a couple of days ago, I had thrown a blue muslin blanket over the bouncer whilst he was in the sun and shoved my head under it to play with him, Declan thought it was the most fun anyone could have with their clothes on.
If you're getting bored of the baby photos, it's probably a good idea to delete me, they're probably only going to get more frequent :)