It's Official-We are a Cloth Diaper Family!

I was totally naive to the whole cloth-diapering thing until about a month ago, then I became completely obsessed! We use the Bum Genius 3.0 and so far so good.

If anyone is curious about cloth diapers, a pretty informative website is: http://www.cottonbabies.com/clothdiapers.php


I think they look so cute on their little bums!

Molly isn't potty-trained at naptime or during the night so she gets to wear them too-she loves them!

Happy Birthday Chris!!

Chris's 28th birthday was on Sunday and I think he had a pretty awesome one. I took him out on Saturday night to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse (I just got soup to make it somwhere in the realm of affordable) and then we went to Sunsplash afterwards for their night-time special. We didn't fit in very well at either place (Scottsdale's finest out at Ruth's Chris and the freak shows at Sunsplash) but we had a really great time at both places. Sunday was a pretty low-key day, but Chris did get a birthday cake. Since it was just our family I let Molly decorate it with every sprinkle and frosting we had in the house, and I think she did a great job!

Molly's Great Hairdo

Molly is notorious for taking her hair out in the car, and I've started getting pretty irritated about it, especially when we've actually taken some time to get it looking good before we leave the house. About a week ago Molly was taking her hair out again and I turned around and gave her the stink eye. I didn't really feel like having a fight about it, so I turned back around and a couple of minutes later I looked back and she had re-fixed her hair herself. These pictures don't really give it justice, but she had clipped the bows almost on top of her head, catching plenty of her bangs with it.

Captain Jack

My sister Jessie had her third baby, Jack Randel Chin, last Thursday. Everyone is doing great! Jessie has c-sections, and the first two times we waited in the waiting room for what seemed like hours before the baby was born, and it was pretty miserable. But this time with all the kids it was like a big party! I'm not sure if the nurses at the nurse's station liked it as well as we did, but none of us were too concerned.


Auntie Sarah and Captain Jack.


Sarah was smart enough to bring her Ipod for the kids to watch movies. And as you can imagine with Amelia and Molly both wearing their dancing dresses, there was quite a bit of spinning going on.


Claire was in such a great mood (which is the norm for her) that everybody loved holding her. In these pictures she's with Chris, her Great-Grandma Gay, and her Great-Aunt Josie.




What kid doesn't like wearing adult reading glasses?

Molly's New Doll

New Dancing Dress

My mom got Molly a new dress that Molly calls her dancing dress. It's excellent for spinning, so the name is very fitting. It's been hard to get it off her the past couple of days and it's getting pretty dirty, so I had to hide it in the depths of the laundry hamper so she can't find it until it's clean again. In these pictures she's all dolled up like a ballerina (at least a two year-old version) complete with buns and sparkly lotion. Now she just needs some ballet shoes and she'll be ready to charge for performances!

Claire's First Solids

Yes, that is mashed avacado and not rice cereal. I know that seems bizarre, but when we went in for Claire's four-month well baby check she had dropped from the 50th percentile in size to the 25th, so the doctor said it's time to beef her up a little so she doesn't fall off the charts completely. She said to add a couple of extra liquid feedings during the day, and a teaspoon or two of avacado would really do the trick. We've only tried it once and it didn't go over too well, as you can tell. She spit everything right back out. Hopefully she'll get better in the next try or two. After all, who doesn't like avacado right?