Christmas 2009

What a busy last few months! Christmas is over, and of course thats always bittersweet. The girls had SUCH a great Christmas! We got to visit with family and have family dinners and open some presents and the best thing of all... 4 consecutive days off work so we all got to just hang out together and enjoy the Holiday!

I got to snap some really cute (and some really silly) pictures of the girls. They looked adorable in their Christmas dresses.

Whoopsie Doo (Whoopsie DONT)

Santa brought Sophia a baby Whoopsie-Doo and that thing is making Whoopsies all over the place. This doll is SUCH a rip off okay.. she needs a diaper evertime she 'whoopsies' (poops OR pees) Now this is a problem because each diaper costs between $1.00 and 2.50 depending on where you get them. In case you did not understand that is 1 little baby doll diaper... 1 use... = 1.00+!!!!! That is REDICULOUS! Needless to say if she only pees, i dry out the diaper and pass it off for another use, but the little sticky tabs go bad after a couple and if she poops in the diaper, its a goner. The little food refill packages are like 6 dollars for 10-12 packages, well that will fill up 12 diapers so you have to spend 30 bucks a week if you want to keep this thing going their way.

This is how im doing it the 'cheap' way:

1.) Re-Use diapers. If there is only a pee, it gets dried and used again

2.) Just put water in the bottle so she mostly pees, then once a day (usually evening so i can closely supervise) she gets to feed it HALF a package of food ( i save the other half for the next day.) This is MORE than enough to produce a whoopsie, which for some odd reason thrills Sophia.
3.) tonight i will be going to buy regular baby diapers in the newborn or 'premie' size. I dont know for sure if it will work, but regular diapers are wayyy cheaper, so im going to give it a try!

And here is my little living Whoopsie Doo doll. :)