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Rock-a-bums Cloth Diapers

The latest & newest cloth diaper to join our rotation is a Rock-a-bums 5-n-1 diaper.

I think the black cover is pretty awesome. Very gender neutral which works for my duo. The two inserts that come with the diaper have a grey side. I love that they’re easy to spot/match with the cover when sorting diaper laundry.

Lucy Rockabums

The interior of the diaper & inserts are also really soft. Lucy & Zach must like that too because this one has suddenly become our most pooped in diaper. LOL! The grey color comes in handy here too as Lucy’s recent blueberry & black bean obsessions have led to some stains in our white interiored diapers.

Zach Rockabums

Rock-a-bums touts this diaper as being 5-n-1. So lots of options {all in one, all in two, pocket diaper, hybrid insert & shell cover}. So far, I’ve only used it as a pocket: snapping the insert in the diaper then tucking it in the pocket.

We’ve used the diaper for a few weeks with no problems: no red marks on their legs & no leaks. The snaps are easy to do & adjustable enough to fit all sizes of babies including my two fairly skinny ones.

As I’ve been mentioning lately, my busy toddlers are on the go. And even with all the moving &, as I said above, pooping, we haven’t had any accidents out the front, back or legs! Lucy was showing off a bit & made it hard to snap a non-blurry shot of her rocking the Rock-a-bums last Saturday. {Zach was in a ‘sposie last weekend due to needing high powered diaper rash medicine.}

Rock-a-bums
I’d recommend Rock-a-bums to anyone in search of a good one-size cloth diaper. I haven’t seen them for sale in my local cloth diaper stores, but you can buy them online {I’d love a red one for fall football season!} as well as read more about the Rock-a-bums story too.

I was sent a Rockabums one size cloth diaper for purpose of this review. I was not otherwise compensated nor are my opinions shared above anything but my own.

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Zach: Thirteen Months

Gah! Time is flying by. How’s it a week past his month day? Or 13 months since the arrival of my lil guy?!

Zach has flourish this last month! Verbally, socially, developmentally & in size!

Mama & Dada are the most hear words, but he says baba often too. Does it mean bye-bye? Bottle? His tongue wagging/thrusting cracks him {& us} up.

Socially, Zach’s begun to assert himself more with Lucy- pushing, hitting, smacking Sister. This has led to us separating them & taking away toys. And praying they’re sweeter to each other in public {aka daycare}.

He’s not quite as quick to smile these last few weeks. Because he’s serious about walking! Within the last month, Zach went from bravely cruising/throwing himself a step or two, to walking/running. I’d say within the last week, walking had become his main mode of transportation at home. Seeing this lil guy walking around is so cute. He chats & likes to have his hands full & out in front while traveling around the den. Falling doesn’t phase him; he’s learned to get up hands-free & keep going. We have tons of videos of him these days because it’s such a joy to see him learning & discovering to walk!

So last monthday update, I mentioned Zach was around 16.5 lbs. I weighed us last weekend dressed & he was 19.2 lbs. Yep, you read that right. Almost 3 lbs in a month. Growth spurt much?! Goodbye 6 mo clothes, see ya 6-9 clothes he maybe wore once, & really it’s not looking like all the 9 mo clothes I’ve been collecting will last long. Thankfully, I remembered I’d bought a lot of Jenny’s Toby’s 12 mo summer hand-me-downs so Zach won’t have to go naked later this summer. 😛

How’s he packed on the pounds? Loving table food. He eats everything we give him. Like an entire homemade waffle on weekend breakfasts {plus fruit}. We haven’t found much he’ll scoff at. Plus he’s nursing with me in the mornings, getting 3 breast milk/formula sippy cups at daycare & typically another 8oz split before/during/after dinner/bedtime.

Happy {mommy’s sorry for being belated} 13 months Zach!

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Lucy: Thirteen Months

Oh Lucy girl has developed & shown off quite a personality this month. Always our serious baby, she was the outgoing one flirting & smiling at strangers at Costco two weekends ago.

She’s our wild child. Throwing herself into our basket of books. Speed crawling our of the den & down the hallway into their bedroom before you can turn your head. Shutting doors. Grabbing our cell phones or remotes when she knows she’s not supposed to have them & giving us the I’m-being-devious smirk.

She’s also ridiculously sweet. She loves to cuddle ~ her head fits right into our necks. She will pick up Zach’s wubbas & hold them out to him. Lucy get so excited to see him ~ sometimes a bit over-excited. She might’ve horse-collared his pjs last night in an attempt {we hope} to give him a from behind hug.

Lucy’s still our big girl. I weighed us on our scale & fully dressed she was just over 22 lbs. I’ve began retiring all her 9 mo clothes to daycare & consigning. 12 mo Carter’s & children’s place fit her well. We sadly had to put away these precious 9 mo ruffle Oshkosh skirts & a 6-12 mo baby Gap jean skirt last week. Oh & she’s moved up to the toddler area of Target clothes. {I’m still getting used to walking to that section!}

I’ve been online consignment & sale shopping for 18mo clothes for Lucy for the end of summer /fall. I think she’s tall enough that she’ll be in 18mo pjs before too long.

We put a variety of one sized cloth diapers on her for daycare {bless them for continuing to let us bring in cloth!}. At night & while we vacation, she wears size 3 disposables.

Speaking of sleep, Lucy still is a bit of a challenge some nights to get down & then typically wakes at least once. She requires a mix of nursing, cuddles, walking, bouncing, & nursing {again} to get her to sleep. So she’s usually up hanging out with me in the evenings.

Lucy *loves* blueberries. She loves all fruit {except grapefruit} but blueberries are her jam. She’ll eat them my the handsful {shoving them in as quick as possible into her cheeks with her right while holding one gingerly in her left}. It’s hilarious until we have to cut her off so she doesn’t turn into a berry!

She’s had pizza, fish, more veggies, turkey breast, chicken casserole & peanut butter sandwich for the first time at home. Daycare does breakfast & she’s had nutragrain bars, frosting-less poptarts & muffins as well as chicken nuggets, grilled cheese sandwich & turkey pepperoni at daycare. So far, she likes or at least tolerates everything we put in front of her.

But her most excited faces still appear when I snap on the brown brestfriend nursing pillow. She’s become quite the acrobat while nursing, but she’s happily drinking from me before & after daycare & all weekend. I think getting her to wean might be a challenge, but luckily for her, we’re not quite there yet.

Sorry this is a week late, but happy 13 months sweet Lucy girl!

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Moving Up

I’m feeling sappy this morning after just dropping Lucy & Zach off in their new daycare classroom. They’re transitioning to the toddler room. But it appears they’ve done well enough the last two days to be there all day today.

I left them sitting in lil chairs up against a lil table eating cheerios. Like big kids, y’all! What happened to my babies?!

This new classroom does sippy cups. So that means we are now a bottle free household {except for ones for me to pump into}. That is so weird after months & months of having bottles all over the sink & counter, to see sippy cups there now.

Sippy cups
Our boon grass drying rack taken over by sippy cups {& pump flanges}

Zach’s made the transition to sippys well. Lucy & her nursing-loving self hasn’t taken to them quite as easily {she’s still EBF’d other than daycare}. We bought out a local Walmart’s Nuby sippys with the bottle-like nipples on Sat as we found that’s what they’ll use the easiest & it meets the “sippy cup” definition.

daycare sippy cups
Wednesday’s sippy cups. Daycare ready!

Seems like these changes are rolling off Zach & Lucy’s backs pretty easily. But I teared up in the van on the way to work thinking about how grown up they’ve recently become!

The big change up next: adding in whole milk. We might start that on vacation next week. Someone hold me!

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Power of the Post

I post about the hardness of marriage & parenting. And boom. In the last weeks, things have been great with Zach & Lucy, and much better with the husband. We’ve enjoyed lots of playing as a family, & thanks to Cici & Pops babysitting, J & I had a day lunch & movie date last Sat!

Then I post an update on breast feeding where I note Zach might be weaning. And boom, he’s gone back to nursing great overnight & in the morning {much easier for us}. He cut a new bottom right tooth Sun am. Maybe pre-teething was part of the strike?!

In the same post, I noted I was a little stressed about making the transition to sippy cups for daycare with them. So we tried it this week at daycare’s strong suggestion, & boom, they do great! They’re up to two sippy cups of 1/2 breast milk & 1/2 formula & 1 bottle. The bottle just in case they need to use it if they refuse the sippy & because I wasn’t prepared & we don’t yet have enough sippys yet.

I shouldn’t doubt the awesomeness of the kiddos. & just how great {even better than their momma} they roll with changes. Nor the awesomeness of the husband & our marriage.

And/or really, maybe it’s all due to posting? To putting it out there? Maybe there’s real power in the post{s}?!

Anybody have something going on I need to post about so it can be fixed for you?! 🙂