Babee Greens One-Size fitted

Poking around the internet one day, I stumbed across Babee Greens. The neat thing about this company is that they're local to me, right here in Asheville. I've had the opportunity to meet the owners, Tia and Rachel, and they're both lovely women!

Anyway, I have a couple of their organic cotton one-size fitteds (but only one has been prepped so far). I LOVE this diaper. It's adjustable by way of a fold down rise, has great cross-over snaps, and comes with a cool doubler that can be snappi-ed on a baby who doesn't fit in the OS yet.

Peter has worn this diaper for up to four hours with no leaks, and that's using just the diaper, not the doubler. I truly think it can hold him overnight, but I haven't tested it yet. That will come once I get my wool longies prepped.

My favorite thing about this diaper is how trim it is. Peter isn't a big baby (15 pounds at 8 months), and this doesn't give him a super fluffy bum like some diapers do. It's also amazingly soft and easy to use. It also fits well under several different types of covers.

Now...for a couple pictures. Keep in mind I'm no professional photographer, and he's in a rather squirmy age.

A series on diapers

I get a lot of questions from people in real life about diapers, and I really do love talking about them. I'm going to do a series on all the different types I use, and reviews of each brand. This is partly to make answering emails easier, and also to just really document something that has become a hobby to me. (Because seriously, Sean's tired of me talking about diapers all the time...)

So, to start, here's a list of all the types of diapers I have.

4 BumGenius One-size (3.0 and 4.0, all velcro)
5 FuzziBunz One-size  - one has delaminated a bit, but still usable.
2 FuzziBunz Perfect size
6 BumGenius All-In-One (3 x-small, 2 small, 1 medium)
2 Rumparooz One-size (snaps)
3 HappyHeiny One-size (2 velcro, 1 snap)
1 Tots Bots Easy Fit
3 Kawaii One-size (2 velcro, 1 snap)
3 Smartipants One-Size
4 Fluffy Elephant (1 modified large, 3 one-size)
12 BumGenius Bamboo Fitteds (7 small, 5 medium)
2 Babee Greens One-size fitted
11 Kissaluvs fitteds (10 size 0, 1 size 1)
1 Muttiquins fitted (newborn)
1 Kissaluvs Marvel One-size fitted
1 Declyn Dipes semi-custom One-Size
5 Budha Butts (4 medium, 1 small)
1 Itti Bitti Snap-in-One (medium)
1 Plump size small
2 Coco Bear Cloth (1 small, 1 medium)
1 DooDooDiapers OS AI2
12 prefolds (6 Indian, 6 Chinese)
16 unbleached flats
8 bleached (printed) flats
4 Flip One-Size covers
2 Econobum prefolds/covers - I only use the prefolds
2 Babee Greens PUL covers (1 small, 1 medium)
3 Bummis Super Whisper Wrap covers (2 small, 1 medium)
2 Thisties Duo covers
10 Greenline covers (7 cotton outer, 1 fleece outer, 1 double fleece, 1 for swimming)
1 AnayaBaby cover (medium)
1 Babee Greens wool cover
1 Babee Greens wool longies

I'll start with a discussion of fitteds later this week. :)

Way back again!

My goodness--I should be doing something more productive than this, like cleaning my room. It's gotten worse, and I just cleaned Saturday morning. I really dispise cleaning. Ok, enough of that.

I go back to camp in 57 days. That's really soon, and it makes me happy. I'm already starting to pray for everything that God has in store for this summer; I know He has BIG!!! plans for us as a staff, for the campers, and for each of us personally. The mountain is amazing. That's why all my friends are tired of hearing me talk about it.

The first night back last summer, I wrote the following in my journal "There are fantastic things that happen on this mountain. It's a comforting place, a healing place. It's free from the world's distractions, free from the world in general. I love being here."

The end of the summer, I wrote, "How do I explain how it feels to have a girl finally hug me right before she leaves on Friday, and to have one ask me to sit by her bed at night? How can I explain that I give my summer out of pure love? Yeah, its a sacrifice, but I gain back so much more. How do I explain the way I feel when I serve, when my grils don't even notice all teh work I'm doing? How do I explain the change in me?" and "I am not the girl I was when I left for teh mountain this summer. I can't explain the changes in me just yet, but I know they are there. God used me to touch lives this summer, and I'm forever grateful for that. But moreso, I'm grateful for the way He used my girls to change me. I was forced to grow up....God has showed me that I am beautiful, not because of how I look, but because He dwells in me. I know, I know. I should have already realized that. And on some levels, I had. But this summer, I had a chance to teach it every Monday. And each time, I would have grils tell me just how ugly they thought they were. It's so hard for me to see just how caught up the world is on surface appearances. What's inside is what really matters. My point to all this is, while I still look pretty much just like I did when I left for camp this summer, my inside looks much more beautiful. God is good!"

I said all that to say this: camp has touched me. I've learned many lessons there. And yet, it's important that we go out and find our own place to grow. And it can't just be a place during the summer. My growth from camp comes from the fact that I actively seek God when I'm there. It's easy to get caught up in everything going on in our lives, and to just expect others to cause us to grow. That doesn't work. Much of our growth comes from within. I do believe in fellowship, but I see that there is more to being a Christian than hanging out and eating, or whatever. I want to get out and find God more...He's everywhere...we just have to acknowledge Him!!!

"I don't want to go somewhere
If I know that You're not there
'Cause I know that me without You
Is a lie.
I don't want to walk that road
Be a million miles from home
'Cause my heart needs to be where You are.
I don't want to go."