Diaper Duty

We had our monthly budget meeting the other day and with budget cuts, I somehow forgot to set aside money for diapers this month. OOPS. I'd been going back and forth in my mind about using cloth diapers again to help ease the budget anyway, so this really forced me into it. I had also thought about potty training, but with teaching piano in the afternoons I wouldn't be able to dedicate the time to run him to the bathroom when he needed it. So, yesterday I pulled my CD (cloth diapers) out of storage and laundered them in preparation for use. We have about 4 disposable diapers (sposies) left and I'll just use them at night. Maybe. Now that I'm thinking about it Aaron hasn't been going very much in the night, so maybe the cloth will be fine. I guess we'll have to experiment and see. Jared would always end up red in the mornings, but I don't know how Aaron will do. Anyway, so as I was going through and sorting my stash yesterday, Aaron was curious about what everything was. I told him that these were his new diapers. He was very excited about the fun diaper cover prints and was telling me which ones he wanted to wear. I hoped this meant the transition would be pretty easy.

The journey began today in a less-than ideal status. Last night I folded all the diapers and stuffed most of the ones that needed stuffed but I wish I would have actually created a spot to put them all because it was very frazzling today trying to use them (which was fine for me, but not for anyone else). It was convenient that Aaron had his morning poop before I changed him out of his sposie from last night. Unfortunately when I went to change Aaron's diaper and let him know that he was getting one of his new diapers, he had a revolt. I explained to him though that we don't have money for the other diapers, so he either needed to wear the new diapers or go potty in the toilet. He didn't want to go potty in the toilet so he was much more cooperative after that. Thankfully I chose an all-in-one the first time (no extra cover needed, so it's kind of like a sposie). About five minutes after he was changed though he told me he went again. Things went much smoother the second time and every change since. The hardest part is figuring out which cover he wants to wear :p

Tonight I went to a PTO mtg and didn't have a chance to fill Matthew in on the diaper situation. I figured I'd be back in a hour or so and it wouldn't be a big deal anyway since I changed Aaron right before I left. Matthew called me at about the hour mark and tells me that Aaron went potty in the toilet twice. woohoo! Apparently Matthew had the CD or potty talk with him too. I got home to a very excited Aaron telling me about going potty in the toilet. I noticed he was wearing the CD I put on him before I left (or so I thought) but without a cover. He looked so cute in his bubble butt diaper. I walked into the livingroom and my eyes were immediately drawn to a wad on the floor in front of my computer. A diaper liner with a ball of poop in it. joy. Matthew filled me in on the potty situation. Aaron had taken his diaper off by himself to go potty (probably with a little bit of encouragement from Jared because they were in the bathroom at the same time). Amazingly Aaron even used the regular toilet - something he's always freaked out about before. So yay for Aaron, boo for the poo on the floor. These types of breakthroughs always seem to happen when I'm gone and Matthew is the one at home..... So I was way off about my assumption that Matthew wouldn't need to worry about CD. He went from no woories to having Aaron use the toilet twice and having to put a clean CD on him! lol With this kind of record, maybe Aaron will end up out of diapers soon after all.