Big Day Tomorrow

Tomorrow is Zeke's first day of school, granted it is just a "meet the teachers" day but finally school is just around the corner.  I wanted to ask that you also be praying because tomorrow Zeke has his ChildFind speech evaluation.  This is kind of our last stop hope for getting speech therapy.  Please pray that if this is what we are needing that it does come through and that Michael and I are receptive to the changes that will need to take place and will do what is very best for our little man. 

Crazy Schedule

Today was one of those days that I had to sit back and realize just how crazy busy my schedule is!  I felt like I was running against the clock all day and to top it off was all over town.
Just a quick view of what a day in Andrea's life looks like...
Woke up at 6am to Ki coming into bed with me
Ki fell back asleep and slept while I jumped in the shower
Zeke woke up at 7:45 (this is major sleeping in in our house!)
Ki woke up at 8:05 (big sleeping in for him!)
Breakfast for the boys
Leave the house at 9am
Drop of medical specimen at doctor's office at 9:20
Headed to Sweet Beginnings, in downtown Littleton to get a few cloth diaper supplies
Get Zeke to OT, in Centennial at 11am
While sitting in Zeke's appointment I get a call from my neighbor asking if I could watch her daughter for a half an hour and as payment she wanted to take the boys and I out to lunch
So rush from Zeke's OT appointment and get home to watch the neighbor daughter
Then my neighbor and the three kids head to Golden for lunch
After lunch we come home with hopes of getting the boys down for a nap - no chance so I start laundry
I give my friend a call in regards to CD and then the boys and I head over to Target to get a few things and then over to Vitamin Cottage.
All is said and done and I get home and get dinner for the boys then for myself
Boys play in the basement while I get laundry folded and changed
Shower the boys at 7:15
Ki falls asleep at 7:45
Zeke is trying not to fall asleep right now and I am well - sitting here trying not to fall asleep myself and the one thing I can do to guarantee that is to be on the computer.
So I drove all over the place and ran from one place to another and I am wiped out!

First Day of CDs

Andrea here reporting to all your curious minds on my first day of cloth diapers... I do not hate it, I actually think CDs will work for us.  I will say that I don't necessarily know that Gdiapers are the ones for us.  There are a few reasons for it but before I knock anything I am going to try for another week or two.  The one thing that I am seeing with this system in particular is that Ki just doesn't really fit them - the mediums according to weight are what he should be in and around four this evening I realized that they were cutting his legs a little too much... they had "bruised" his little legs.  So I moved him to the larges and he spent a few hours in them and they seem to be okay.  The other problem I was having is the absorbency of the diapers - so after a little research I read that the lack of absorbency can be due to build up on the diapers.  Thankfully my friend Talia is on speed dial and she gave me a few recommendations and a trip to Vitamin Cottage will hopefully help. 
Thus far my cloth diaper financial investment is up to $45.  Purchases include a wet pail for the house, a wet bag for out and about, re-usable wipes, and detergent/cleaning supplies for the actual diapers.   

To CD or Not To CD

This has been the question on my mind since I find out we have number three baking.  

To do cloth diapers or not to do cloth diapers?

One of our friends has been successfully doing cloth diapers with her number three for a few months now and since talking with her I have noticed my closed mind approach to the whole world becoming more open.  I know it is a strange thing... me having a change of mind!  LOL!  I guess being that I am a stay at home mom and there is a part of me that wishes to live the more "whole living" approach I have become more and more open to the CD world. 
Little did I know the amount of people that are a part of this CD world!  In the last month I have let my mind be more open to the possibility and I am blown away at how at this stage I am almost thinking that CD is what we are going to do.  Granted there is the whole environmental aspect that is intriguing to me but just the ease that has come over the decades makes me more prone to the idea as well.  After sitting down and looking at what we spend in money from newborn to potty trained in diapers, wipes and diaper genie refills we have spent a total of $2,376 for Zeke and are at the half way mark for Ki.  That is a total of $3,500 we have spent in the last three years just in diapers alone.  Granted in that total I did not count diaper creams and Aveeno soothing bath - of which we went through our fair share for Zeke! 
With this new open mind to the whole CD world I am meeting with a friend today that is going to give me a lesson on CD and the ones that she used and loved, the ones that she has and doesn't much like and so on.  She has offered to take me to a CD store and help me through the purchasing process if that is what I decide.  So I have been collecting questions for her and a few others over the last few nights.  Late last week I posted a question on Mamapedia in regards to CD and I had 12 women respond... out of those 12 only one said - I must be insane for even thinking of CD... the rest gave much helpful brand names, ideas and solutions to some of the trivial things that I have been contemplating. 
With all that said - I am feeling like by the end of this month I may know whether I am taking the CD plunge.  I figure between my two friends that are CD SAHM I will have the support system that I will need to make a successful experience out of something that I used to swear - Hell No to and really make it work for our family, both financially and logistically. 

Fun Mommy Day

Although this morning I was thinking that I should head back to bed and try again later - today turned out to be a fun day with just my boys! We hung out at home for a little while, waiting for my morning yuck to go away and then we headed to one of our favorite parks where we played for a while and then once our tummies were saying they were hungry we headed to Panda Express for a little lunch treat. Driving home both of the boys fell asleep - which in my book means that as a mom I had a successful day! Here are a few pictures from our fun day...