Upcycling Cloth Diaper

Posted on | April 21, 2012 | No Comments |

Maybe in 20 years Emma will stumble upon this post (granted I have no idea how blogs would be preserved in 20 years) and she’ll have a giggle. But, if she stumbles upon this sometimes this week, this momma will be in big trouble {::SMILES}.

A few days ago, at swimming, M kept looking at me and each time she’d mutter something. It took a few tries but I finally understood what she said. At first I was going to do something sensible but between the rain and wanting to teach my child a little lesson I decided on something else — and this was after consulting with my handy dandy grocery bag hand bag (forget Coach, Dooney, Fendi, Fossil, etc, this, my friends, is my daily hand bag).

After swimming and showering, the girls and I went in to a changing room and there I presented M with her towel. She was appalled. She was embarrassed. But she was also cold and wet. In the changing room I dried my oldest with a cloth diaper, a Grovia soaker to be exact.

Even though Jovie’s pee trained, she’s not poo train. She’s still terrified of the potty when it comes to #2 and she prefers to do it on a diaper/trainer. I always know when she needs to do #2 and so until she says she needs to poo, Jovie wears big girl underpants. This is why I always carry a cloth diaper or disposable trainer, in case of #2.

Now, I don’t know about your 8-yrs-old but mine gets embarrassed easily. Even though she’ll ask for hugs, kisses and cuddles at home, in public, there’s no such thing. Since my goal was to teach her a lesson, and it was really funny watching her pout, I then said, “I cannot wait to tell your daddy and post this on Facebook!!” Call me mean but when I saw her face and her reaction I immediately busted out laughing. I couldn’t stop giggling until I got home (and somebody couldn’t stop being upset all the way home) and when we got to the drive way, I was laughing so hard tears were rolling down my face. At this point I was mostly laughing at M’s attitude. She was begging me and bargaining with me to not tell anybody, even her daddy.

We never made a deal. We got interrupted. And so here I am sharing and wondering when, or if ever, M will find out.

It really isn’t a big deal. M’s reaction is really what’s more entertaining than the whole diaper thing. I thought my idea was quite clever really {::SMILES}.

Kids! They drive you nuts one minute and the next, they make you laugh so hard that all the exhausting part of parenting gets washed away.

I also have a little scrapbook page to share. I used Scarlet Lime’s Frugal Fab kit, the March kit, to create the page. I LOVE the color scheme. It’s mellow and fun at the same time.