Hiking

I have to say, it's pretty cool to be out hiking and not have to change a poopy diaper or get exploded on. We were out hiking one day last week and we stopped so I could nurse Alaina. I realized she needed to go poop so I stopped nursing her, took her over to some bushes, took off her diaper and gave her the cue. She pooped right away! It's so much easier to clean and so much better than carrying around a poopy baby or diaper for the rest of the hike. That was a highlight of this adventure for me.

All in all, it's going pretty well. If I'm right there with her, I always know if she has to poop and we always catch it. Lately I've been letting go diaperless a lot more to watch for pee cues but I rarely catch it; I just giving the pee cue when I notice her going. Not very many catches, but we had one today! I'm starting to think that I'll have more success by just teaching her my "go pee" cue than trying to learn hers. I'm motivating myself this week by having let us run out of disposable diapers. That means I have to pay good attention and really focus or else do LOTS of laundry. Let me just tell you, laundry is motivating! I hate laundry!

So that's where we're at for now. I'm pretty happy with how thing are going and hopeful that we'll continue to have more and more success. I can't wait to be done with diapers by the time she's one. That's the goal anyway.