Over the past week our apartment has seen an increase in all things baby!
Evan had his first lesson in cloth diaper changing! Over the past weekend my mom brought gifts my Auntie Jen & Uncle Tom sent Miss Bumpkin. Enclosed was money towards our cloth diaper registry, so on Thursday I skipped into Simple Cloth- the local cloth diaper store- and bought our first diapers!
Baby Turk, the gorilla, was our diaper non-squirming model as we both tried out our new Flip diaper system! We both absolutely love the print on the newborn diaper pictured above. It goes so well with her nursery theme.
Also this week the B.O.B. my mom ordered for us arrived! The B.O.B. for those of you that aren't familiar with are incredible jogging strollers. What makes it a class of its own is the three wheel design that allows the front wheel to either lock in position, which you want when jogging, or have free movement when out shopping. Now all we have to get is the adapter that will allow the pumpkin seat to lock in when she is tiny and some rain gear for the stroller!
This dresser may look familiar to some. My childhood dresser that was once my Auntie Jens! Well, its being passed on once again to Miss Bumpkin, but first it needed a little love and work.
Painting the dresser green! DelRae and Steve were kind enough to let us use a portion of their garage to transform the dresser over the course of the weekend.
The finished product, minus all of Miss Bumpkin's things filling its shelves & drawers. To make the full transformation we found new hardware, including hinges. Special note regarding the color of the dresser: it actually matches the green in her crib bedding! Just one more reason to love the iPhone!
Evan found the perfect hardware at Lowe's for the dresser! Again falling in line with the forest theme.
2 comments:
Hey...we use cloth diapers for Carson! Saves a TON of money. We use bum genius. What brand are yours? I've heard they're hard to use the first month or two with a newborn, especially if she's small b/c they leak more but we are excited to do it from start to finish with Claire. We didn't do it with Carson until he was over one. Do yuo guys have a name picked out?
Hey Ashley!
I had no idea you used cloth diapers on Carson!! We are trying out a new diaper system called Flip. Less washing since the diaper itself doesn't have a "pocket" for the liner to go into. So we should be mainly just washing the liners and occasionally having to wash the covers! Luckily there is a cloth diaper store in town and the ladies there are SUPER helpful. We found wee little ones that will fit her from day one until she is about 18 lbs. The Flip however starts at 8 lbs and will cover her until she reaches 35 lbs. Hopefully the entire time she will need diapers! And as for a name...it's been picked, however we keep going back & forth on the middle name. Keeping it all hush hush until her birth! Keeping you in my thoughts and hoping you will get to meet baby Claire very very soon!
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