Diaper weekend

Anyone with babies or who has had babies will tell you that the biggest things you will go through are formula and diapers.  Through the California and Utah WIC (Womens Infants and Children)  we are able to get free formula for the twins, but we still have to take care of the diapers.  These two babies eat like their daddy!  This leads to lots of diaper changes!  Usually we can get the best prices and amounts at Costco, which is nice because I can also go and get a hotdog at their food court or some other great bulk deals as well while I am there.  I often picture us in the future of having multiple multiples and having to have a forklift load a whole pallet of diapers into the back of our minivan. 

Well this weekend was the Miramar Air Show at my base.  Our babies sometimes are very sensitive to noise when they are sleeping, and we decided to go and have some fun off base so that the babies don't go crazy hearing the jets fly over and all of the loud noise.  This plan did not work  so well when my friend Bonus (more about him in later blogs) decided to come with us as he needed some stuff.  Bonus is not able to be quiet at all.  His "whisper" is louder than most Auctioneer's call.  He frequents our house in the same manor as Kramer on the classic Seinfeld TV show.  Usually when he comes by, one of the babies will look at him and start crying.  He will then bend down, and stare at the kid and tell my baby "Oh, come on, you're ok!"  The baby will immeadieatly stop, stare at the audacity of this man to tell her what to do, and then play with her toys calmly. 

We bought the case of diapers and as we got to the car I realized that I still had the stroller in the trunk, which takes up just about the entire trunk.  Bonus had went crazy since he had never been to a Costco and bought a ton of books and snacks.  The diapers were wrapped up in 3 "bricks" so I tore the box apart and and was able to put them down in the trunk brick by brick.  The Bricks are now set in stratigic places throught the house so as to best get them in the stinky time of need.

My mother  used cloth diapers on my siblings and I.  Before we had the twins, we attended a huge Utah baby show (These are almost as big as the bridal shows in Utah, which in comparison, are as big as a gun show in Texas).  I watched a demonstration on new modern cloth diapers as Brooke went through thousands of baby bows.  I was intrigued by all of the neat designs for them, but when we finally got to the point of how to clean them, I was imeadieatly turned away from it.  Bad enought when I have to wipe them down, but with these, you have to hand scrub them clean.  I don't want to get much into potty talk, but I don't like poo and have to get rid of it.  I love my baby girls dearly, but I will not scrub the poo out of their pink flowery diapers.  I will gladly buy as many bricks of diapers as possible to take care of them, recognizing fully of the imprent on garbage and the realization that there is probabyl a skyscraper built our of all the diapers from my house.