Fa-La-La-La-La......Where's The Egg Nog??

There are two weeks until Christmas!  Are YOU ready?

This guy is READY.

I'm decently ready for Christmas. 

Lucas and I don't do gifts, so that's one thing I don't have to worry about.  Though I guess in the future we'll have to start so that our children don't think Santa doesn't like us.  One year we decided to start a tradition that involved a letter, a color, the East Ridge antique mall, a $50 budget and a one-hour time limit.  It was super fun the year we did it, but we failed at making it happen again.  We really should, though.  It was fun.  Lucas ended up with a pineapple lamp and a glass panther planter.  :)

The only gift my parents have wanted from their kids for the past several years is an updated photo, so that's easy every year.  Sometimes we do a sibling picture all together, and sometimes we do separate pictures.  But we always try to be creative.  One year we recreated a picture of the three of us from when we were little....even knocked on the door of the house we grew up in to ask if we could borrow their tree.  We didn't fit in it quite as easily, but it worked!

My brothers and I do stockings each year with a $50 limit per stocking.  These are fun, and tend to get creative.  Budgets always make things creative.  As well as the fact that everything is SUPPOSED to fit into the stocking!

I've gotten a couple of little things for Delano, but he's still too little to want anything, and he NEEDS nothing.  But I still want to have some presents to wrap!  I can't NOT buy my child presents!  And actually, I just realized I bought him some underwear.  Hahaha!  Go figure.  But they're so cute....

Come on....he's going to look adorable in these!!!

Speaking of Delano's underwear, we are now at an "in between" stage with his gdiapers.  The transition between the newborns and the smalls was smooth.  But there's a bigger size difference between the smalls and mediums, and I guess Delano hasn't chunked up in the thighs fast enough to make the jump.  The mediums are still too big and we're pushing it on the smalls.  He's had some pee leaks in both sizes.  He's also been leaking through his other diapers, too.  The only one he hasn't leaked through so far has been his Otter Blotters one, and I only own ONE of those!  Granted, he's only leaked through his Swaddlebees ONCE.  And I currently have five of those.

This is my actual Otter Blotters.  It's kind of a complicated diaper (both velcro AND snaps to deal with) and I only have one insert for it, but it's worked great for me.

I own this Swaddlebees diaper, though the one in this pic is not mine.  Mine are all All-In-Ones, so they're a one-use diaper each time, but EASY PEASY to use and wash!

Sidenote:  I made a comment in the past that I don't like diapers with snaps.  I've decided that I don't hate diapers with the side snaps like the one above.  Though velcro is still the easiest, these aren't bad at all.  But I still don't like the ones that front-snap, like this:

What the front looks like open.

Snaps are very popular, because they outlast velcro.  And most companies will convert your velcro diapers to snap diapers for a small fee if you want.  Just fyi.  :)

So anyway....I've been experimenting with diaper combinations and Googling info trying to find a "cure" for the leaking diapers, because cloth diapers shouldn't leak if you're doing everything right.  To sum it up, Delano is currently wearing the Swaddlebees, the Otter Blotters and the small-sized gdiapers with a disposable liner during the day.....I'm making sure the interior fleece liner of his Happy Heinys is tucked completely within the waistband of his diaper at night.....I'm making sure his pee-pee is pointing DOWN when I diaper him.....and it's time to strip all of my cloth diapers and liners (which I will do tomorrow).  So hopefully by the end of the day tomorrow we'll be in good shape!

Go figure that I went from talking about Christmas to talking about my diapers.  I talk about them a lot, don't I?  Ah well.  They're a big part of my life nowadays! 

But now it's time to let the dogs out to pee and get ready for bed....aka, be up feeding Delano the next hour or so.  Instead of asking me if I'm ready for bed, Lucas asks me if I'm ready to go watch him sleep.  :)

With a face like this, how can you be upset about it?  :)