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Feb. 21, 2000 - Monday
Over the weekend, Harry graduated to Size 2 diapers. Well, I suppose the truth is that over the weekend Harry used up his last Size 1 diaper and is now wearing the new ones. There's a little bit of overlap - Size 1 Pampers, for example, go up to 14 lbs and the Size 2 start at 12 lbs. - and Harry is somewhere in between so anytime of late would have been good, but this weekend was it. We're also switching back to Pampers after trying a box of Huggies, because, although Huggies have the wonderful elastic waistband, they seemed to leak mildly out the sides from time to time.

Diapers are amazing. Even wet diapers are dry to the touch inside and have some chemical ability to move moisture through the first layer and into some holding area that, I'm told, turns it into a gel of some sort. That makes them a little puffy when wet, or very puffy and solid if full, and easy to identify if they're in need of attention. Dirty diapers that aren't wet are harder to identify without looking, but I can only imagine the messiness of cloth diapers. Fortunately for our ecological conscience, the detergents used to clean cloth diapers are arguably as bad for the environment as piles of used disposables. So, we're emotionally off the hook to some degree for taking the easier route. Of course, we'd like to have recyclable disposables, but we wouldn't want to see the processing factory.

Harry will also graduate tonight to a crib. We've heard his arms banging against the sides of the bassinet at night, so I set up the crib we bought on-line and his mother took Harry for a little shopping excursion to buy sheets. We were very pleased with Harry's sleigh-style crib and equally pleased with the on-line store (cribs2go.com) we bought it from. We had a couple questions, both before and after the purchase, and, unlike the stereotype for on-line buying, they responded quickly and courteously on all occasions.


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