Some numbers

I was thinking about how many days old Hannah is. When she was tiny, I used to think, "she's only 11 days old once" and just really try to enjoy each day. I got away from that after she got older, but I'm trying to remember to enjoy each day! (Regardless of how many days old she actually is!) I figured out she was about 411 days old, a couple of days ago. My first thought was translating that into about 400 nights of realy bad sleep! Then I started thinking about EC, and approximating and average five "catches" per day, means 2000 times Hannah has peed and/or pooped in a potty and not on herself. I like that.

Cloth diapering full time- not so much fun!

We were at my mom's a few days ago, and Hannah just wasn't interesting in using the potty. We went through more diapers there than we ever have! I think we had our first poop miss away from home, too. That was not all that fun. I am so glad that we do EC and don't rely on diapers ALL the time! It is just so messy!!!!!! We only did what I would consider "full time cloth diapering" for a day and a half, but even that was too much! If I didn't do EC, I would probably use disposables more often. (As it is, I bought a pack in November for our airplane trip up north, and just used the last one this week! I wanted to take the cloth diapes up north, but I was too close to our weight limit, and I didn't want to pay for the extra weight on the flight up and back!)

I think moms who go for it full time with the cloth diapers have an awesome commitment! I'm just not sure I could do it.

Trying to get this figured out

I can't quite figure out where Hannah wants to go potty, and maybe she doesn't know, either. She definitely tells me when she needs to go, but refuses the choices I give her. This hasn't been going on long, and I'm guessing is just part of her development. (I hope!) This evening she let me know, so I took her into my bathroom. Earlier, she had peed in there while I was going, so I thought I'd try that the next time. I had two of her potties in there, plus the seat reducer. She was playing with the potties, making her potty sound the whole time, and just didn't go. She did actually sit on her potty by herself, which was awesome! I let her sit on the potty, and we hung out in there for quite awhile while she made the potty sound and played with the potties. Then she went on the floor. It seemed like we learned something about each other and pottying there, though. I cleaned it up, no big deal. It's easier cleaning a pee miss off of the linoleum floor than changing a wet pair of pants!

She's wanting to be taken potty in the night again, too, which is very cool!

A new skill!

Yesterday Hannah took off her own diaper! I saw her walking around naked, holding the diaper. I wish I had seen her do it, it would have been fun to watch! At least it's not a big deal going nakey around here!!!

Awesome EC Milestone!

Today Hannah went to her potty when she had to use it!!! For the first time! She walked over to it and tried to get on it. I helped her (next time I'll probably see if she can get on it by herself) and then she made her potty sound, peed, and got right back off! That was cool!!!! I know some babies do this even several months younger-- whenever they do it it is an exciting milestone!