Another boring bullet-point post (now with updates)

1. El Grande chose my new colors for me. I like 'em. He wants to do a crazy flashy banner for me, but I'm happy with my apple photo and the new colors.

2. I was subjected (trapped under a nursing baby and couldn't reach the remote) to a new Jenny Craig commercial yesterday starring everyone's fourth-favorite Scientologist (after Tom Cruise, Rob Thomas [see update], and Beck, of course). In it, Kirstie Alley is talking to a friend on her cell phone (we don't know the friend--they met at summer camp and she lives in Canada). KA gleefully squeals about how much weight she's lost--"I'm almost invisible!" Am I the only one who thinks this is really, really creepy and sad?

3. Does anyone know why talking Lofty is so much more in-demand than any of the other Bob the Builder trucks, including the vastly superior Scoop? I've been getting outbid on Lofties left and right on Ebay, and they've consistently been going for two or three times as much as the other character trucks.

4. We finally switched El Pequeno into cloth diapers. We started with disposables because of the meconium, and when I tried cloth a few weeks after he was born they were too big for him and he couldn't kick his legs. But yesterday, I realized he was literally pissing away his college fund in the disposables, so I gave the cloth ones a try and they fit. Hooray. Virtually free diapering makes me veeery happy. Every time I chuck a cloth diaper into my awesome PUL diaper pail liner I get a little miserly thrill.

5. A few nights ago, El Chico woke up in the middle of the night and started screaming "Daddy! DAAAAADDYY!" in a scared, panicked voice. El Grande hightailed it into his room to find that in the night El Chico had flipped 180 degrees in his bed, then fallen out of bed and gotten his legs wedged under his dresser. He woke up and was out of bed, facing the wrong direction, with his feet trapped. We were at a loss for words.

Updates:
2. Boxing Octopus reports that imdb.com reports that Rob Thomas denies being a Scientologist. He also denies being gay, but that's not the part of the rumor that offended him. "He says, 'If I were gay, Tom wouldn't be on the top of my list...It would be Brad Pitt. I'm more offended by the rumors saying I'm Scientologist.'"  TC wouldn't be at the top of my list, either, Rob.

3. I hate Lofty. Despite working at the most nurturing contracting company in the world, he persists in having zero self-esteem, and we never hear anything about his being in therapy. But El Chico is obsessed with Lofty right now, asking me every day, "Did Lofty come yet?" So I gave in and ordered one from a store on Ebay. When it comes I just won't put any batteries in it--there are no batteries in our Scoop and El Chico hasn't noticed. I hope that lasts.

4. Emma, we had the whole load of cloth diapers from when El Chico was a baby, so really have no costs in diapering except for laundry costs. I, personally, use unbleached cotton prefolds inside velcro or snap wraps, and find it an easy and effective system (way fewer blowouts than with disposibles, IME). My husband finds it easy, too. If you want details of my actual system I'll have to put them in a separate post.

Comments

[wix]

4. i fucking love cloth diapers. i'm building a site for a woman who is starting up a cloth diapering business here in austin. i don't think i've ever been as excited about a site that isn't my own before.

5. that's just odd. i woulda screamed bloody murder, too!

[emma]

I don't have a baby yet, but I've always thought cloth diapers were too much hassle. Where do you get them from and are they really that easy?

[CathyY]

VERY creepy... saw that one yesterday too.

[Summer]

I'm with you and Wix, cloth diapers rule. Even though I'm not currently cloth diapering, I read enough questions about it on other blogs I'm considering putting up a post on mine about the very simple, very cheap, very effective method I used with Dorian. There are just so many options for cloth diapers, I think women get overwhelmed, so perhaps it would be useful to write about my experience with lowest-common-denominator cloth diapering. (Though I never used a plastic bread bag for a diaper cover, like the Frugal Zealot who wrote the Cheapskates Gazette... I'm not quite that bad.)

Perhaps Lofty is so popular because kids relate to his fretfulness. Otherwise, I can't figure out why. I like Muck, personally.

[Jamie]

I will mail you a talking Lofty. Heck, I will pay you to take him. He drives me NUTS.

I also just returned to cloth diapers, after I figured out that I am a pins and plastic pants kind of cloth diaperer, and all the little velcro covers were driving me nuts.

Huh. Two consecutive paragraphs end with announcements of my impending insanity. Maybe it's time for a nice iced coffee. Or perhaps a beer.

[Ada]

Lofty? Really? We found Lofty in a thrift store and I can understand why it was dropped off.

These are the things he says:

"I don't like it. IIIIII don't like it!"

"Oh, Mmmmmmmy!"

"Um yeah... I think so"

"I. Can. Lift. It."

I find him needy. I like more positive words coming out of my action figures, I suppose.

[Glenna]

LOL, I am a miser about certain things...diapers are one of them. She isn't even here yet and has an assortment of cloth diapers. I plan on using disposables for traveling and while a newborn but other than that her fanny is in cloth. I have the maid to wash and hang dry. :)

[Rachael]

Yeah - I had the same reaction to the JC commercial. Very weird choice of words.

[boxing octopus]

all i'm saying is that kirstie alley has a looooong way to go before she's invisible.

and rob thomas is denying being a scientologist: http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-07-13#celeb7

[Lisa C.]

I just recently started using cloth on my son (he just turned two), and I am so very sorry I didn't use them from the beginning. He has sensitive skin, and was always red in the diaper area with disposables. Now, the skin on his bottom looks like the skin on his arm. Same color.

I don't think I've saved any money -- I'm just getting into it and trying to find the best fit for us, BUT after using them you can often sell them on Ebay for a significant chunk of money!

Cloth diapers are awesome.

[emma]

I'll have to look into the e-bay thing. I guess that way I'd get the whole system in one go. Just hope they're well cleaned!

When it's nearer the time (i.e. if I actually get pregnant!) I'll look into this more - so I might ask a few more questions!

[Toni]

Add me to the list of those greatly disappointed that Beck is a Scientologist. I love that little feller, but geez! Bummer.

Cloth diaper question: do they still require rubber pants, and how breathable are they, with whatever barrier used with them? Seems my third fella here has him some sensitive privates, poor bunny.