We recently made the switch to solid foods.  Well, not really solid… mush.  I am really starting to miss the days of a strict boob milk diet.  Not too many poops and the smell was bearable.  Now, with the addition of formula and baby food, the poo flood gates have opened and I have found myself in a non stop diaper changing haze.  I mean it’s nuts man.  It doesn’t stop.  Back to back to back do do’s.  And to make it worse, I still have yet to get the girl potty trained… but it’s just been so damn nice outside, I don’t want to spend the entire week inside.  But, I guess that’s my fault though.  Sorry mama, looks like we might have to wait until you take your next vacation to tackle the potty training thing.

Just kidding, I got this under control… I hope.

A about a month or two ago, we were pretty into the whole potty training thing.  My wife even, several times, did the whole “Potty Party” thing where we decorated the bathroom and had stickers, prizes, and candy to reward her for using the toilet.  Then we went on vacation, and the diapers came back on.  Well, now that it’s just me and the kids all day, potty training is something that I really don’t even want to attempt to do.  Until today.

For the first few hours we were able to stay in the bathroom, watch TV, and read books and play with barbies (tons of fun), and she went pee once.  Then we came downstairs so i could get the bottle ready to feed the baby.  I should have went back up stairs, but, instead I decided to feed the kid.  A few minutes into the feeding, my daughter came running out of her play room holding a poopy diaper, saying “I got poop on my couch!”

“Shit!”  I yelled (oops).  I had to stop the feeding… which really pissed off the baby, and immediately stated a  real “shit fit.” Then she handed me the diaper with a perfect ice-cream scoop size poop in it.  Before I was able to grab the poopy diaper, she ran off, and the little sticky tabs on the diaper were stuck to her shirt, so the mess was going with her.  I quickly grabbed the diaper, squishing the poop between my fingers, and carried her to the sink.  Holding her in one arm, I washed off my poopy hand and finished off the job.  What a mess.

The lesson is… there must be no interrupting the potty training day… or the feeding of the baby… How do ya do both?

How many diapers do you use in a year…?  I was wondering that very same questions form myself, so I tried to do a little math

I have two kids in diapers so…

right now, I think that I change about 10 12 a day for my newborn, and about 8-10 for my 21mth old.  So lets just round down to an average of 17 a day, 119 a week, about 476 a month, and 6,664 a year.  So lets say that they are in diapers for only two years… thats at the very least 13,328 diapers.  I wonder what that looks like.  How big would the pile be.?

Here is video that show us some diaper facts…

dont get me wrong… I will never use disposable diapers… and we use this many a year…