Sewing!

It all started with my love for cloth diapers and my desire to constantly buy all of the fluffy cuteness manufacturers make for my babies bum. We don't have money for me to spend on diapers. So I watched youtube video after youtube video and finally took a shot at making a fitted diaper. It was so much fun that I made a second! I bought the material at my local fabric shop for 8 dollars and had enough for 3 diapers Which comes to under 3 dollars a diaper.



Cloth diapering is extremely economical. My cloth diapers (and I have probably around 80 of them) paid for themselves by the time Selah was 6 months old, so since them they have saved me money. They can be used for all future children (we want three) which adds to the savings. And they were ALL given to me as gifts....except for the 8 dollars I spent on fabric, as mentioned above. So really, I have never had to buy diapers. I only do diaper laundry about 2-3 times a week, which is not a lot of extra laundry. Plus, NO POOP BLOWOUTS!!!! They don't exist with cloth diapers. My baby's poop stays in the diaper where it belongs. When I change her, I simply hold the diaper over the toilet, the poo plops in and I flush it down....Which by federal law you are supposed to rinse the poop off of your disposable diapers as well, so I am not doing anything I wouldn't be doing if I used disposable diapers.



To sum up, I love cloth diapering my baby!










P.s. Action shots to come once I get them washed and on my girl!

Standing and Climbing

Today was a blistering 98 degrees. We were hot and going stir crazy, so we decided to get out and go walk around the mall. We stopped in the little kids play place so Selah could crawl around and burn off some energy. She quickly found the slide and was determined to climb up it. She has never been much of a climber but today she climbed on everything. It took her a few times, but once she got up, she slid back down, backwards might I add, and did it again.





Then Later, we went to the park for a bbq with friends. Selah was in the grass and for the first time she stood up from a sitting position! We didn't have a camera handy, but my oh my was it amazing to see her finally conquer this quest. She has been working on it for a few weeks now. I think she will be walking any day now. She will just stand herself up and take off. It is so much fun to see her grow and learn new things. I am such a lucky mommy.

11 months

From Wikipedia: Selah (Hebrew: סֶלָה‎, also transliterated as selāh) is a word used 74 times in the Hebrew Bible that means GOD HAS SPOKEN. It is probably either a liturgico-musical mark or an instruction on the reading of the text, something like "stop and listen". The Amplified Bible translates selah as "pause, and think of that". It can also be interpreted as a form of underlining in preparation for the next paragraph.Selah notes a break in the song and as such is similar in purpose to Amen in that it stresses the importance of the preceding passage. My daughter, Selah made her intrance into my arms on July 11, 2012 at 6:58 pm after 39 long hours of labor. She is sweet, giggly, funny, silly, cuddly, and smiley. She loves the water and she hates shoes and socks. She is the very essence of the word beauty. She makes me whole. Some how in the last 11 months, I have not had very much time to "pause and think of that" or to think of anything, for that matter. Some how between the never ending pile of laundry, and the baby who never sleeps, I have forgotten to stop and reflect on all that my life is. I have forgotten to write down the special memories that are already escaping me. When did she first smile? When did she first roll over? It is getting hazy, and I don't want to forget everything. I don't want to forget anything. From now on, I want to document the joy that this child brings me as she grows and learns and changes. It is going by too fast.