I love summer.  It’s warm, the sun is out, and we get to wear shorts and tank tops (for those of us who dare to).  Summer also means that we can finally strip the layers off our babies and let them run “free”.  For those of us who invest in cute diapers, we get doubly excited because we can finally see what our hard-earned cash has bought us.

Personally, I love to see Kitten run around in her little Piddle Poddles and her new Mutt*.  I do love to see her little tushie in just about every diaper we own, but those two get the biggest thrill out of me.  I am a little nutty, so I tend to make sure that she has co-ordinating shirts so she’s wearing an “outfit”.  But maybe that’s just me.

I also love summer cloth diapers because my diapers dry SO much faster outside.**  They’re pretty crunchy when they come in, but a quick tumble in the dryer softens them up.  I also like that the sun bleaches my inserts and the diapers.  And why do I love the sun so much for it’s bleaching powers?  Because no one told me about “summer poo”.  I don’t know if Kitten just isn’t adjusting well to the heat, but her diapers are a lot mushier and harder to clean out than they used to be!  I used to be able to just roll that sucker out into the toilet, but we’re back to elbows in the toilet scrubbing out poo.  ::sigh::  I meant to buy a diaper sprayer, but still haven’t got there, so I guess that’s my own fault.  So we’ve had our first (and second, but on the same diaper) stain ever.  Every day I throw this diaper out in the sun, and every day it looks a little better, but I’ll be glad when this heat breaks and Kitten’s digestion goes back to normal.

It’s my own fault, really.  If I wasn’t so darn proud of my stain-free diaper stash, it wouldn’t be a big deal.  But no.  It’s a giant big deal!  The diaper that is stained is my Mother-Ease One Size - not my favourite diaper, and even if I sold it, I don’t think that I would get much for it.  But the stain just sits there and mocks me.  Maybe this is just God’s way of telling me to be a little more humble?  It sure seems like it.

*We accidentally bought a Mutt (don’t ask me how).  It’s a medium front-snapping one, I don’t know anything else about it, other than it’s yellow with blue and burgundy flowers with a blue velour inside.  I will say this - it stretches like no tomorrow, and it’s unbelievably absorbent.  I swear that it sucked up more than half the toilet water.  What was it doing in the toilet?  Oh, Kitten had a GIANT POO in it not 15 minutes after I put it on her, and I didn’t want it to stain.  Luckily, crisis was averted, and it did not stain.  It might even be beating out the Piddle Poddles for my favourite, except that we get wing-droop with it that we don’t get with the Piddle Poddles.

** I use a drying rack to dry our clothes, not a line.  It was taking everything a really long time to dry because everything was folded over the bar in half, rather than being hung with pins.  I went and bought 50 pins for $1 (you should be so proud!), and now I’ve hung everything up with pins and boy howdy does it dry faster!  I seriously recommend this to people who use a drying rack.  Plus, when the wind comes up you aren’t chasing your underwear down the street!