fun party

Well, the party yesterday was a success. Dad bought 10 pounds of hamburger meat and 16 sausages plus hot dogs. I made 5 pounds of potato salad and the equivalent amount of coleslaw, 3 dozen cookies, and a veggie tray. Dad made baked beans and two sweet potato pies. Needless to say, we had way too much food and we'll be eating leftovers for a month. I did have to borrow propane from a neighbor since dad didn't check his tank before the party. It was all taken care of though and went smoothly.

I also had a doctor's appointment last week, and the doctor said everything was looking good. I had only gained a pound in two weeks, so that was a relief. She told me that my stretch marks were in a good spot and wouldn't be very noticeable later on since they were low. That was also nice to hear. We did order our cloth diapers and we do have many reasons for using them. At first, I was like grandpa and didn't agree with dad's decision to use cloth. I started researching this, which grandpa probably doesn't have enought time or energy to do and there are many reasons to use them. First of all, cloth is gentlest on your booty. Your chances of getting diaper rash go from 78% (disposable diaper occurence) to 6% (cloth diaper occurence). Cloth diapers will make it easier to potty train you since you can feel when you are wet. Doing laundry is one of my favorite chores and clean laundry is my favorite smell, so that doesn't bother me one bit. Disposable diapers account for 2 tons of waste in a child's diapering years. Cloth diapers will cost an initial $200-250 and will last for more than one child and disposable diapers over the course of the diapering years for one child will cost $2000. Your grandpa is correct that the chemicals used to absorb all the waste that you can produce were pretty ingenious, but then again so were a lot of other harmful chemicals. Asbestos is a miracle material, but turns out, it is not real good for you. Super absorbent gel in diapers makes me a little skeptical as well. I would actually like to hear why someone should not use cloth diapers. How are disposables better in any way? The excuse that cloth diapers require more work is inacceptable. Who said more work is a bad thing?

I did get a kick the other day and you wouldn't move your foot. You held it between my ribs and I could feel your foot with my hands. Dad got to feel it too and dad's friend, George, that was with us wouldn't feel it because it freaked him out too bad.

Next weekend we will be attending a wedding for a college buddy. Many of my classmates will be there and I'm sure you will get a lot of attention as is usually the case.