We bought our first box of diapers on our own yesterday. For the first two weeks we had been living off a few boxes generously given to us by friends & family at showers. I thought we had a ton, but those ran out in only two weeks. Seeing how fast we go through them, I have a feeling we will never be ahead of the Diaper Monster.
We'll be buying so many that we've gone ahead and signed up for the "code programs" with Huggies and Pampers. It's one of those programs where you enter a code from the package of diapers and earn points each time. This isn't the first time we've tried one of these programs. When we lived in Norman right after we got married, we would collect points from Coke products. We would even go around taking the caps off bottles left on the ground after OU football games. Gross? Yes. But back then it was much easier to earn prizes for them, and we were poor newlyweds. But the prizes got bad, and Coke realized what people like us were doing, so they put a ton of restrictions on how many codes you could enter per week and stuff and it just wasn't worth it anymore.
I tell that story to show that we've realized how much money we're about to spend in diapers, so we might as well get something back from it!
Also, I never thought I'd be so excited about poop. While I'm kind of tired of diapers already, I know they're a sign that things are working properly in his system, and that's exciting. I've looked at so much poop, analyzed it for color and consistency. I have to remind myself of our mantra: He's going to grow out of this quickly, and then he won't be a little baby anymore. We may never have another little baby again, so we need to enjoy every seedy, mustardy poopy diaper he had while we can.
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