Saturday, October 6, 2012

Update

So we visited the doctor on Tuesday with high hopes that she'd tell us we were a little more dilated and effaced than we had been the week before.  No such luck.  In fact, we were at exactly the same point we had been the week prior.  She reassured us that the baby is well engaged and we were right were we needed to be.  So we're still waiting.  I haven't started eating nothing but pineapple, spicy food and balsamic vinegar (all said to be labor inducing!) yet, but I've been a little more eager to take walks and sit on my physic-ball (also said to aid the process).  In the meantime, we're taking care of those last few things we hadn't really gotten to yet, like replacing our built in microwave and going out to eat at our favorite spots (yes, I know you can still do that with a newborn, it just gets way harder!).  We finally purchased our fancy camera and we've been reading up on how it works--it won't do us any good to have it if we can't figure out how to take a picture!  Even though I'm just learning how it works I feel like a rock star when I use it--the picture quality is amazing.  We're thinking we'll try to snap a few end-of-pregnancy photos to share with everyone.  This weekend was our huge subdivision garage sale so we figured we'd walk around and see if we could find any good baby items.  We ended up getting something totally unexpected--cloth diapers!!  I'll admit, I do my fair share of talking crap on people who do things that are a little different...and we know a couple (not exactly our favorite couple) that uses cloth diapers, and I've done some smack talking with my girlfriends about it.  It wasn't something that Brandon and I had even thought about, let alone seriously considered.  But last week, someone knocked on our door and asked us if we minded if they set up in our yard to participate in the garage sale.  We weren't planning on selling anything so we told them to go ahead.  Turns out, the girl who asked owns a cloth diaper supply business, and as a thank you for using our grass, she gave us some products for free, promising that even if we weren't interested in cloth diapering they could be used as swim diapers or as training pants during the potty training stage.  Since we were completely clueless, we asked her to explain to us how they work, and during her explanation, she kind of intrigued us.  Yes, one of the selling points for cloth diapering is the fact that it keeps all of those disposable diapers out of the landfill.  And that's great, but honestly, we were more interested in the money saving factor.  Potentially, they can save a TON of money.  So we figured, what the heck?  We'll give it a try.  If we don't like them, she'll buy them back.  So stay tuned on this one.  Maybe we'll love it, maybe it'll be the worst decision we even made.  They are WAY cuter than regular disposable diapers, and it was fun to pick them out.  We do feel a little green and hippie-y for taking the leap in the first place.  And I still kind of can't believe that we did!  I suppose time will tell...


-- Our impulse buy...cloth diapers....are we turning crunchy and green (but you have to admit, they're super cute!)?? --

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