Baby Blessing

Today Adleigh to to make someone's day. We were sitting out at our garage sale, and this older gentleman got out of his car and came back. He's one of those guys who, if he was a church greeter, would probably hug people instead of a handshake. He was so sweet. He took one look at Adleigh and asked if he could hold her. For whatever reason, I didn't feel uncomfortable by that request when I normally would have. He just raved about how adorable she was, and how blessed we were to have such beautiful children. He said, "Thank you for letting me hold her. I'm going to be praying for you guys." Then a minute or so later, he said, "Thank you again. I am so happy. I have tears in my eyes. You are so blessed." I don't know, maybe I was stupid to let a stranger hold her. Maybe I should have said, "Are you crazy, how do I know you won't come back and steal her?" but those feelings of discomfort I get when strangers get too close to my babies never came. I don't know why. Regardless of what I should have done, I was reminded again of what a blessing my babies are.

I think this is why everyone wants to hold her-she smiles all the time! And then of course, who can resist those beautiful, chubby cheeks!

Garage Sale

I'm doing my first garage sale tomorrow. AHHHH! Crazy! Lots of baby clothes. Seriously weeded out about half of their clothes. I didn't realize how much we had and I just keep buying! I've got boy and girl stuff. We have other baby items and other "stuff" not baby related. I have some wedding stuff, but not much since we borrowed a lot of that.

Anyway, stop by tomorrow or Saturday-starts at 8 am. Even if I don't have something you want to buy, I have some super cute kids to stare at. You don't want to miss out on their cuteness! (if you need an address, email me (muggsie910@yahoo.com) or check my facebook status!

On Hold

Our cloth diapering has been placed on hold. I'm a little sad about htis. I had just put some diapers in the washer to rinse before washing. I set it on the rinse cycle, walked ot the computer, sat down, got settled in to order some diapers, and I smelled an awful burning rubber odor. I went into the laundry room and it was full of smoke. I just stopped and unplugged the washer and dryer (I didn't know which was which so I had to do both). Hopefully it's just a belt that can be fixed quickly. I'm anxious to get into this a little more.

While on the topic, I can say I'm not a prefold fan. I like fitteds and I've tried one contour and I really liked it. That's actually what I was getting ready to order. I wanted a couple more so I could better compare. Oh well. I will wait.

Here's Adleigh in her brand new purple diaper cover.

Does this diaper make my butt look big?

Taking the Plunge

Thanks to Alicia, we are testing out some cloth diaper options. This is a big deal for us. I've toyed with this idea since before Adleigh was even born, but decided I hate doing laundry, therefore, it's never kept up and I do piles of it in a couple days. The last couple weeks I've kept my laundry hampers nearly empty by doing a load or two of laundry a day (the dark clothes basket seems to fill very quickly here!), or at the very least, every other day. I CAN keep my laundry up if I try. And it's really not so bad if I do it a little at a time!

Today Adleigh has been in a prefold and in fitteds. Even after just a few hours, I think I already can tell I prefer the fitteds. They are so easy. Almost as easy as disposables, yet they won't take hundreds of years to biodegrade. To start, we'll probably do both cloth and disposable. We will purchase as we are able. I'm really excited about this, but I'm totally scared too. I have to wonder what will happen when Adleigh shows up in the church nursery with cloth diapers on Sunday.

It's an expensive start-up cost, but after that it's not. I have my wedding dress posted on a couple sites, we are having a garage sale in a couple weeks (baby clothes will be there for boys and girls! I'm going to get rid of stuff!

We'll see in a couple weeks how we like it.

misc...

We are a house full of sickies. It's no fun. It started with Elijah. He had a fever, then a couple days later, had a nasty cough with runny nose. Then Adleigh got the fever. The next day Kylee got it. Kylee and Elijah are pretty well over it, just crusty noses and a little coughing. Poor Adleigh still has the stuffy, yucky runny nose. And so do I. The fever hit me a few nights ago. I knew what all was coming. Well, some of it. I had no idea that a sore throat and chest accompanied this particular cold or virus. It hurts, so I can't imagine how my little ones, especially Adleigh being so little, were feeling! I am hoping it's all gone from here VERY soon! So far Nick has managed to escape this dreadful illness. Today we have to go to Target. I was just there last night. I sure wish I would have remembered we were almost out of tissues! I'm going through them like crazy!

Life has been going and going and going! We have to make adjustments to things, but that's ok. We are definitely walking through some fires, but we've seen God's hand guiding us. Sometimes it's hard to have that faith. I didn't know if I could. I feel like we need a break from all the testings of our faith lately, but then I got a wonderful reminder of just how faithful and loving our God is.

Now for pictures! This is my favorite part, but I enjoy showing of my babies!