Easter baby

I was going to wait until next week to write but I decided to just do 2 blogs.

While we love the celebration and reason for Easter ours was not too eventful. When Jakob woke up (at the lovely hour of 8:30), we changed his soaked diaper and immediately took his picture next to 'his' basket and chocolate. I just had to get him stuff! ;) I justified my decision by telling myself he was technically getting chocolate milk. ha Yeah, right. We did have fun playing with the surprises in the Kinder eggs though! We relaxed all day, took a family picture, skyped family and ate lots and lots of chocolate. And pretending like I hadnt bought enough, I got sucked into the after Easter sale. Thankfully we have devoured it all now. Im telling you- there is NOTHING like Swiss chocolate.

I thought I'd give an update on our diapering situation. Besides our 3 weeks in the states and the 3 weeks it took for Jakob's umbilical cord to fall off, we have been cloth diapering non stop and I LOVE it. It has taken a lot of trial and error with different kinds but I think we've figured it out. Our main diapers are flat folds and prefolds. In the beginning we were just laying them in the cover but I got very tired of having poop on the covers (he used to go A LOT). So I found the fold that I love- the origami fold. We use this fold with a flat diaper when I think a poop is coming and it holds everything in! The other times I use a prefold since it soaks up so much but I just dont like how they are bulkier and sometimes dont get dry completely in the dryer. Once he started sleeping 11 hours at night we realized he needed way more absorption and that's when we use BumGenuis with 3 inserts! We only got 6 because they cost a lot more but they work like a charm at night. No leaks. I definitely think my research paid off. We love our system and love the fact that we paid so little for so many diapers that will last forever. And no diaper rash! Here are some pics!

Not too much else has been going on. We did buy a grill and are so happy we did. We've used it tons already and it makes dinner more fun. Tomorrow Paul will be running his race and we'll get together with everyone for dinner. Mother's day will probably be uneventful but that's ok because all I really need is a good belly laugh from Jake and that always makes my day. Then Monday little man gets his 4 month old shots. Im not going to enjoy it but luckily they are very good and thankfully give only 2 shots very fast. I'll update with all that next week! I bet you he weighs at least 15 pounds. He's a big, loud, happy boy. Oh and these pictures are from Easter when we tested out one of his gifts from the states! He loves it. :)