It's been awhile

I don't know where I left off last, I know I could check, but I have few precious minutes to type now.

I am pretty sure I have blogged since little man turned 3 and was soon after diagnosed with Autism. Little Lady is still tiny, but making a lot of progress. Took her first steps not too long ago and now we are trying to coax her into actually walking. She is babbling and starting to say Mama to just about everyone. But when you say Dada or Mama she looks at the correct parent. She seems on target developmentally, but after Z it's hard to be at ease.

Z started Developmental Preschool and is making friends and loves it there! He can't wait to go most days and it's a great break for me and the little one. Another great update with Z is that when we started Speech Therapy in late April he was basically considered non-verbal. She was not able to finish the evaluation on him and he was hardly talking. She tested him again in September and he was at the 50th percentile for his age. He's talking a lot more and we are understanding what he says more. He hasn't been in occupational therapy since this summer. The school doesn't think he needs it right now, but I may get some OT for him outside the school. It seemed beneficial when we were doing it.

We are still cloth diapering for the most part. While I am quick to grab for a disposable (yes we still buy those vile things :) ) the husband will pretty much always grab for cloth. If only I could be more motivated. Then again I do make almost all the Little Lady's food from scratch, and she eats A LOT.

I miss updating more often. My computer broke and since we don't have the money to fix or replace it I've been using my iPhone and occasionally the husbands computer. I will try to get on here more because it sure feels nice to write again.

Cloth Diapering

So I got the brilliant idea when Little Miss was born that I wanted to cloth diaper. I had done some with my son, but stopped once he grew out of it. He used AIOs and at the time it was a lot of work and ickyness. I've always liked the idea of cloth diapering, but could never commit.

After looking into it more I decided I was going to give it a go. Okay, I wish I could say that's what really got me started. What REALLY got me started was finding Gro Baby diapers. I saw them on a blog and thought they were just the cutest things in the world. I HAD to have them, my little girl HAD to have them. I talked to the hubs about it and he was skeptical because he knows me and he knows I get really gung ho about something and then it is either a huge start up cost and I don't follow through, or I just don't follow through. Lucky for me he has a hard time saying no to me. I read a lot about cloth diapers, we both try to be as eco-minded as possible. For some reason we really love our disposables. We use the Seventh Generation, but we know it doesn't make up for space in the land fill. Mostly it's because of our son's skin. *Back to the point* I read more about diapers and really felt I needed to do this. We got a lot of different size disposables for my baby shower, so we finally decided that we would cloth diaper during the day and use her disposables on trips and overnight.

After all that we had to discuss how many we were going to get. We have a few AIOs left over from little boy, but they aren't one size and they won't fit her now. I was really set on the Gro Baby diapers. So we agreed to get the sample pack containing two and go from there. I knew that they two diapers wouldn't be enough for a day, but couldn't stand paying that much for diapers if we didn't like them. I had heard a lot about the Flip system and wanted to give that a go. So we decided to buy a day pack of Flip and a sample pack of the Gro Baby.
After all that they FINALLY got here. (I had ordered them 2 weeks ago.) I couldn't wait to try them out. But first I had to wash them a few times. Needless to say it took all day and I didn't get to try them until this morning.

It was the first diaper change I've ever been really excited for. So far I really like it. Little Miss seems to as well. Either that or she hates it. How can I tell? She normally only poops once a day, today it was thrice. I hope she loves them because I don't plan on stopping any time soon.