Happy Days

Today my son walked into the bathroom. Pulled his stool over to the toilet. Put his seat on the toilet. Climbed up and Peed!    All by himself. 

Tomorrow he will probably poop on the floor. But hey you have to celebrate progress when you can.

Goodmama a Dad Favourite

So as I've blogged before my husband is having a hard time getting his head around the cloth diaper routine. Like forgetting, again, to include the poopy diapers in the wash with the rest of the diapers.  He was getting a bit frustrated folding diapers the other night.  Then he noticed that the each Goodmamas had different coloured snaps and edging thread.   I told him that they matched the doubler so that it was easy to know which went into which diaper. 

Him "Finally, something made for us Dads..."

Me  "Or sleep deprieved Moms."

Daddy takes over

So this past December I started a new part time job.  My husband is now at home with our little guy and has taken over washing the diapers.  I love my husband, but you can imagine that this has created a few challenges.  You will see a trend of "forgetfulness" in this post.  

1. The first challenge was he sort of 'forgot' that this was now his responsibility.  So for a few weeks diaper washing was a bit irratic. 
2. Then he forgot the poopy diaper bin was out in the back room, so they didn't get washed for over a week.
3. He forgot that the wool aristrocrat covers don't go in the hot rinse.  Thankfully they didn't shrink - much!
4. He mixed up the regular detergent we use on clothes and the special diaper Hydrox detergent we use for diapers.  Cold Water Tide really doesn't work that great on diapers.
5. He still tries to go a week without washing diapers.  As you can imagine (a) the diaper bin stinks, and (b) the diapers are holding more of their smell. 
6. He still asks where the diapers go... that is if he actually folds them and puts them away.
7. He called me while I was volunteering at the Olympics (I was actually holding a rope to keep media behind while the athletes walked by) to double check that the diapers the temperature to wash the diapers in and to ask if the covers could go in the hot rinse (this was last week).

In my husband's defense he has perfected the spray water mechanism in our bathroom for cleaning "blow outs" in the toilet. And he can handily hold a squirming 2 year old under one arm while using the warm spray to clean him off with the other.

My husband is as committed to cloth diapering as I am.  And he has a very detail oriented mind - when it comes to computers.  But he just can't seem to grasp the regular (ie: it doesn't change) routine of washing diapers.  Granted the routine is a bit more complicated than washing his own laundry, but it is nowhere near as complicated as building a server from scratch (spray poopy diapers, use hydrox for detergent, cold wash... remove wool covers... do hot rinse... put into dryer).  Can diaper washing become a learnt skill?  I hope so.... 

Can't wait to see what happens when it gets warmer and he has to figure out the laundry line.