snark, naps, posts and hair cuts.

Just about everyone in the cloth diapering communities talks about how their child is a "super soaker" or a "heavy wetter". I don't doubt that they experience that very thing, but since everyone says it, I can't help but wonder if perhaps it's just that any pee = too much pee. ;) Just kidding. Mostly. I can't talk because we're having absorbency problems here ourselves, but that's just because she has really, really outgrown her diapers and I can't figure out what to order yet, so I keep procrastinating while my child wears the diaper equivalent of a thong. It fits her just fine, but the rise is much too low. I have four diapers that fit her perfectly well but they're getting used only at night these days--we moved away from using disposables at night a couple of weeks ago. I really, really need to make a decision and order some, and make a few more myself, too. I've thought about just throwing a prefold on her instead, but the one time I tried it recently, she screamed like I was beating her. I guess my technique is off, or she is a prissy baby. Or both. In any case, in the time it took me to finish up this post (read: the entire day, because: see next paragraph) I ordered a dozen FuzziBunz seconds because they are $12. I was going to go the fitted route but they're just as expensive as everything else. Most people seem to buy and sell used diapers, but M refuses to budge on that issue and I am a tad squeamish myself so I don't insist. I guess I don't buy used underwear, either. Of course, my underwear doesn't cost ten or twenty bucks each, either.

My child has discovered that she really doesn't need to nap as much as she used to. That means that I don't really have as much free time this week and it's too bad because I have a lot going on and I don't have time to get to everything. M was gone until ten pm last night, making it my longest day yet with her (fourteen hours). I started wondering just how single parents, or even just mothers whose husbands don't help with the kids, as is the case in most of my family, manage. I can't imagine doing all of this on my own. She is also not yet at a stage where she can do much on her own to entertain herself, except for mobile time. She loves the fishies.

I think we should make a list of all the required posts that all parents seem to make at one time or another (or every day) and keep score. The "when will this child sleep?" post, the "oh, funny poop story" post, the "how do single parents do it?" post, the "my kid is so cute" posts, the "someone did something mean to my kid" post, the "should we have another baby?" post, the "my kid is so smart" post, the "i was so embarrassed by my child" post, the "I don't have time to do..." posts. What other posts do you read over and over in the blog world? There are plenty more non-kid related ones. "This is what I had for dinner" probably tops the list. For what it's worth, I kind of like reading about what people had for dinner. I guess that's why I am not a good blogger.

I am feeling really good about my evening's work because M's hair finally got cut. The baby (who is now taking a long nap because I have been telling people today how she doesn't nap that well anymore, but I won't knock it) tends to not give us that much time in the evenings, so M has been looking sort of hairy. Which is unlike Harry, because if he suddenly spotted a fake lightning-shaped scar on his forehead, I would seriously think he is taking things too far. Oh, never mind. Bad joke.