Making progress slowly but surely

Things are going well with our diaper free goals! I catch almost every poop these days, which is nice and a whole heck of a lot easier to clean! Pee has been harder, but I think I mentioned before that I wanted to try teaching Alaina my whistle cue and not to really worry about finding her pee cues because they are so subtle. It's going well! She pees on cue more and more all the time. We're still no where near being good enough at it to go diaperless, but it's a work in progress and I'm confident that by the time she can sign she'll just tell me when she has to go.

I'm gearing up for cloth diapers (if Wal-Mart would ever get diaper pins in stock!) so that Alaina and I will both be more aware of when she pees. I need to know how often to take her and I don't want her to lose that feeling of discomfort from being wet (regular diapers pull the wetness away from the skin so the baby doesn't feel wet). I want her to react to being wet and to notice that she's wet. Before it was still instinctual to hold it and not wet on herself, but at this point that instinct is probably starting to shut down because I don't catch nearly enough pees. She doesn't usually pee during naps, so that is an asset to knowing when to take her, but she also seems to pee several times in a row. At least, she did that the other day. I thought she might have to pee or poop (can't remember what I was reacting to), so I took her and she peed! A lot! I was totally out of diapers and she's so mobile now that laying her on some pads just doesn't cut it-- she just scoots right off of them. So I laid her down diaperless. She peed again within minutes. Pooped again too (I'd had a big poop catch just a few minutes before). Fortunately, Brice was due home with diapers any minute. We borrowed this cool little bumbo chair from my aunt and it's great... Except that it holds Alaina in a position similar to her potty pose, so she often poops if she's in it. That's what happened this day. I forgot about that, and she pooped all over her onesie. Fortunately, the chair is easy to clean and disinfect (Sorry, Ange!!).

In other Alaina news, she is SO ready to crawl! She's barely 5 months old! WHAT!!?? She gets up on her hands and knees and rocks and then gets up on her hands and toes! Again, WHAT!!?? We thought she'd be a strong one from the get go since she was so stinkin' wiggly in the womb, but this is ridiculous! We're going to need another baby gate...