Tim

OK Eve!

Well, just when we thought you were in the stretch run and everyone was just going to sit around anxiously and wait for you to get here, your Mom and Dad do something new. Even though I joke a lot, I love them very deeply, but this one is a curve ball, even to me. Your Mom just bought 3 dozen "cloth" diapers! Seriously! Your Mom and Dad are both highly educated engineers, and have spent the last 4 or 5 years studying how to analize, design, and develop solutions to problems that will help people and make life easier and better. 30 or 40 years ago, some young engineers took an idea that came from some other very smart person and made the first "disposable" diaper. This was a wonderful and very creative breakthough, designed to improve the quality of life for babies and Mothers. Anyway, while I am proud to see your folks try to attempt to hold onto the traditional cloth diaper concept, it is sort of out of the blue. You see, they make these custom fit diapers, designed with a built-in absorption system, protective outside cover, and fastening tape, all engineered to keep your bottom dry and your pants clean. They even make special ones for swimming (even for water babies...that's a joke!). After you "go", your Mom or Dad can simply remove the soiled diaper, throw it away, and put a new, clean, dry one on. Done. Cloth diapers do work, but they also require that you wear an extra set of plastic pants, then they have to be washed, dryed and folded, and then, like you have to keep a smell-proof bag around to keep the dirty ones in, until you have time to put them in the washer. I am not sure about carrying around a sack poopy diapers, especially when you go out to eat or on vacation. Anyway, we support anything they want to do, but I can't help but wonder how this deal will play out and where the idea came from. It has to one of two things. Your Mom actually likes folding laundry, so if it came from that, she will get plenty to fold, because if you are like your Mom, you will poop and pee at least 10 times a day. The only other thing is that she used to watch this old time show called "Little House on the Prairie" about some little girl who was always doing something. I am pretty sure she wore cloth diapers too. She also wore a blue and white flowered bonnet, so if your Mom starts buying you stupid looking hats, watch out. She will probably also make you walk to school, read by candle light, and milk a cow every morning. Love you, and let me know how this turns out.