The Queen's Rambles

If you want to see some awesome pictures of our playdate with Bethany, you should click HERE. She’s a better photographer and she wasn’t packing around a baby on her front. Just in her belly.

I had so much planned for yesterday, but did I do any of it? No! Erik was pretty grouchy when we got back from camp since he didn’t eat his lunch, so I cancelled our activities and went on a cleaning/sewing spree. He’s been sleeping in our guest room ever since my mom left and I decided if he wants that as a room I need to clean up all my sewing junk. What little boy needs to sleep in a mountain of mommy-crafts? I still have a lot of work left to do, but at least I started. When I finish his room I’ll have to start on our little bedroom. It is currently an explosion of pink baby clothes of all different sizes. Sadly I think most of them are the wrong seasons/sizes. As fast as the little darling is growing, I’m cleaning it out pretty quickly.

Anyway, last week there was a sale on a super-popular kind of diaper (Blueberries), but the trick was that they didn’t come with inserts. I went ahead and bought a few and figured I could use some micro-terry towels to make my own inserts.

Then I had an inspiration!

My friend gave me a bunch of Zorb, which is a highly absorbant cotton or something. I have no idea. It looks like really thick quilt batting. I used it to make some awesome (though extremely ugly) cloth pads for myself and never had a single leak postpartum.

Lightening struck and I decided to sew a big piece of the Zorb into a microterry towel. I just had to cut my pieces down a little bit, then I folded the towel around the Zorb, sewed the top, bottom and then a few seams in the middle to quilt it a bit.

Can we get an AWESOME? I used one this morning and didn’t have a single leak after FIVE hours! (Why yes, Elsa is an excellent napper). I don’t know how well they will hold up over time, but I think I may have just found an easy, cheap nighttime insert. We’ve been using disposables at night because I see no reason to wake a sleeping baby. Don’t tell anyone, but our baby sleeps 8-10 hours a night with one or two dream feeds. Shhhhhhh! Don’t curse me! There is no way in h-e-double-hockey-sticks that I am going to wake her up just to change a diaper. I’m thinking I may sew a couple of the pieces of Zorb into one of the towels and see if that works for an overnight. It would be great to get rid of disposables entirely.

The sewing of the inserts was sit-com worthy since Erik decided he wanted to help me “make a quilt.” I did the lead sewing and he ran the pedal. Have you ever tried to sew something with a four year old laying on his belly on the floor, running the pedal? By the time we did the last insert we had our groove down pretty well, but the first two were terrible and everything kept getting messed up because he didn’t know to stop when my brain needed him to stop. Eventually he figured out to stop right when I started saying “ok” even before I said stop. Smart boy. Still, I wouldn’t recommend making an actual quilt with another person running the foot pedal.

Today we were supposed to host a MOMS Club splash party but only one family showed up. I was so glad! I feel so worn out and didn’t know why the heck I was wanting to host a party at my house. Instead we just had one of Erik’s best friends and they played in the pool while the other mom and I lounged in the basement, going out occasionally to yell at them if they got out of our line of sight.

Also, we had to fish a slug out of the water. Isn’t being a mother glamorous? Actually, that’s why I’m exhausted. I was going to put out the slip-n-slide but our neighbors are moving and had all the space taken up with their moving stuff*. I figured they wouldn’t want a bunch of kids spraying water all over their stuff. The pool was N-A-S-T-Y. I found six slugs under it, then spent a good half hour scrubbing the whole thing out so it was usable. Gag gag gag. I’m glad Elsa was sleeping so I had a chance to make things half-way presentable

The kids decided they wanted to put the little slide into the pool. I didn’t look it over very well when I put it in, but I guess it had a slug in it somehow. Come to my house and you’ll have a fancy, slug-bathing time!

*We’re in a townhouse. The only space long enough for the slip-n-slide is the community property between our houses.