Savvy Toddler Mom

It’s Friday and I’m up super-early, thanks to a 6am holler from the toot.  His diaper leaked AGAIN.

It’s not like this is an unusual occurance (almost daily, actually), but in the last week he’s gotten more vocal about telling me.  “All wet, Mommy,” he’ll declare.  Yeah, I can see that.

Why the chronic diaper leak?  A couple of reasons spring to mind, but I think the determining factor is simply this: too much fluid, not enough diaper.  (That sort of reminds me of the SECRET of losing weight: eat less, exercise more.  Duh.) 

I’m not to the point where I’m going to deny the sweet child his bedtime cup of water, so I completely blame his diapers.  Not much I can do about them, though.  He is a big kid and his Kirkland size 5s (there is no size 6) are finally getting to be too small.  With the toot at 30 months and 37 lbs., they are just not cutting it.

I’ve tried having him wear pullups at night – thinking being that they might provide more coverage — but their level of absorbancy isn’t as high as a regular diaper.  So, it’s a nightly challenge to see if we can position his diaper “forward” enough to keep him dry until morning.  Today, again, victory eluded me.

So, here I sit: showered, dressed, breakfasted, and diet coked (you know what I mean…) at 7am.  It’s a gift of time, I said to myself when I couldn’t go back to sleep after the rediapering and redressing.  I spend a lot of days trying to get myself presentable before ten (sometimes noon).  It’s difficult when there are so many more interesting things going on.  Who has the patience for blowdrying hair when there are emails to be read, cars that need voices, and adorable toddlers to talk to. 

Definitely a gift of time.  Time for me, time for you (you get this post!), time for my clients that are going to hear from me earlier than usual, and most importantly, more time for the toot when he does finally wake up (he’s sleeping in bed with Daddy right now… I guess that move happened while I was in the shower). 

Two final thoughts:

1) Maybe I won’t try so hard to solve the diaper leaking problem.  This gift of time isn’t such a bad thing.

2) I think we’ll get the kiddie pool out today.

Happy Friday!