The Great Cloth Diaper Change 2011

Parker and I participated in the 1st annual cloth diaper change this past Saturday! Locations across the world also joined in on this event to not only bring awareness to cloth diapers, but also an attempt to go for a world record. We had a great time and met some wonderful people. It was nice to actually meet, in real life, other mama's that cloth diaper.

Location: Whole Foods-Chandler, Arizona
Date: April 23rd, 2011

I also made Parker's Horton shirt and Dr. Seuss diaper, AND a similar set is available for purchase on my ETSY page(link on the left of my page.)







We also won some new fluff for our diaper stash! YAY, free fluff is awesome :)

Wordless{ish} Wednesday: All that money spent on toys

It's amazing how much money we spend on cool toys for our little ones. We think that the louder, the flashier and the toy that sings the most number of songs would be the one's they are the most interested in. Boy were we wrong! We should realize that our little one's mimic us from early on. They want to be like us and to do the same things we do. So it makes sense that they want to play with the remote, cell phone, camera or play with the computer keyboard. They see us using these things all the time. In my case, it's fabric. When I need to get some things done, I don't reach for the toys I spent a lot of money on. I know that the easiest way to keep Parker entertained is letting him play with my scrap fabric box.

Say yes to the dress!

Two of my very good friends (and Parker's godparents) are getting married! I was very ecstatic when they asked me to be their maid of honor. This past weekend, the bride to be and I went dress shopping. We did find THE dress, there was a wow factor, and there were tears, but I won't be posting any pictures of her dress till after the wedding in case of any spies her fiance' reading my blog.

I had so much fun, she is going to make an absolutely gorgeous bride and I'm so excited for their wedding. Here are some of the photos I can post.


Waiting for the first dresses to arrive


Pointing to her dressing room.

I thought it was funny that there were no mirrors inside of the dressing rooms. Apparently, too many of the brides saw a dress and didn't like how it looked and would never leave the dressing room. So, they removed all the mirrors so the brides MUST come out of the dressing room to see the dress.




Another moment Parker won't be too happy about when he's older

Laundry Day

Edit: I almost forgot to add that my business sponsors The Paper Mama and she is hosting a giveaway for one of my items. Visit her blog for more details!

Parker decided to help me with laundry. I now have to actually schedule my laundry days. Our washer/dryer decided to quit working a few weeks ago and there are no plans in the works to have it fixed anytime soon. It was a crappy set up in the first place, but it was still better than having to drag all the laundry to the public facility.

The upside? Bigger load capacities!

The downside? I have to be really careful with how hot the water in the wash gets and how hot the dry cycle gets when I'm washing the cloth diapers. I have known friends to lose hundreds of dollars worth of diapers because the wash or dry cycle melted the waterproof fabric in the diapers.







Parker helping me stuff and fold all the diapers.


Mommy?!? This is the one I wanted to wear...


Somehow he always gets his way, I can't resist those eyes.

Crazy Busy Week

It has been a bit of a rough and rather frustrating week. It all started last Friday morning I managed to break both of our computer monitors. Everyone says it was just random, regardless it was frustrating. I ended up having to move my hubby's computer to the living room and hook it up to our flat screen TV. I was too afraid my computer was what caused the monitors to die. Unfortunately, EVERYTHING I need to function in my business was on MY computer. I spent hours downloading embroidery software and transferring embroidery files. I was really lucky that I had recently backed up all my embroidery designs to an external hard drive. It was still a long and tedious process.

Then, Parker became sick...really sick. He had been having a runny nose and was sneezing a lot a few days prior, but I chalked it up to teething. He didn't even have much of a fever. He started coughing, scary coughing and weird breathing. I decided to take him to urgent care, they looked at him for a couple minutes and determined that he had strep and started him on antibiotics. The Dr said the cough maybe from the junk running down his throat irritating him. These are the times I wish Parker's pediatrician was available, I trust his ped 100%.

The coughing became worse the next morning so we took Parker to the ER. I should have just took him there the day before. They confirmed strep, but found through a chest x-ray that he had pneumonia too. They doubled his original antibiotic dose and we went back home for steam showers and rest. Good thing is that he is feeling much better now.

The worst part of all of this was my mother in law was in town to visit Parker and he spent most of the time sleeping or at the ER. I felt so bad she didn't get to spend more time with him.


Waiting to see the doctor in the ER.


Getting ready for his x-ray's.


The x-rays were quite traumatic on the little guy, he passed back out after them.



Don't forget the "Team M: Auction for the American SIDS Institute" has begun! We have 3 items listed. To bid "like" their facebook page, click on photos. They have 2 folders of pictures for auction. The items I donated are in the "Auction #1" folder. ALL proceeds go to the American SIDS Institute.

Team M auction: SPRING FOR SIDS

My company, Bohemian Baby Couture, is proudly supporting "Team M" by donating a few custom boy outfits for their auction. All proceeds are being donated to American SIDS Institute

Please join us and many other business for this wonderful auction. Auction will be held on April 14th!

Here is the link for more information:

Team M auction


We donated 3 custom boys sets that look like this:

Winner will be able to choose a size: Newborn-24 months, and a BOY print from any of my in-stock fabrics.

Turned 7 months old....check!

Another month has gone by, and this one went faster than all the rest. I felt like I had just finished writing his 6 month post and now he is 7 months old! I thought it would be cute to do a video montage of Parker the day he turned 7 months.







Stats:
Clothing: 6-12 months
Weight: 17lbs 14oz (his weight gain has come to a crawl the past 2 months)
Height: 26.5"



He is trying to eat solids, he barely finishes a 1/4 of a jar of anything. His favorite and really only thing he will eat more than 5 spoonfuls of is mixed berries(blueberries, bananas, and blackberries.)



He is so close to fully crawling. Parker can stay on his knees for a long time and rock back and forth. He can even move his knees forward, but he forgets to move his arms and ends up plummeting forward.



No Teeth?!? Where are they! Vanessa had a lot of teeth by 7 months, her first came in at 4 months. I was looking online about "disappearing teeth" and I guess there are a number of different explanations for it. I know for sure that we felt and saw something break the gum a few months ago, but who knows exactly what it was. Oh, well I still love is gummy smile :)