Don't Buy Cheap Diapers

Last shopping trip I needed diapers and I stupidly talked myself into buying the cheap ones. About every 8-9 months I seem to do this. I always regret it and then I don't buy them again for another 8-9 months until I start seeing the price difference again and talk myself into it. And since I have been buying some form of diapers for 8 years now I am an expert at this. So we are on the cheap diaper cycle right now and it is driving me NUTS! Lilly goes pee pee just a little bit in these diapers and they practically fall off of her. Let me just say, don't buy cheap diapers.

Now everything that happened today was not EXACTLY because of cheap diapers but everything indirectly traced back to the diaper. So the girls and I headed out to the free family movies they have at the theater here on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We had a fun time and then from there I needed to go to the mall to return something. The movie got out at about 11:30 and by the time we reached the mall it was about noon. We were walking through the mall to go play at the play place they have there and Lilly starts pulling at her diaper complaining. I realize that she has been in this diaper since about 8:00 this morning and for these cheap diapers that is too long. So we are walking along and the diaper falls off! I of course unprepared as I can be sometimes, have nothing. She is also in a dress.....not exactly something that she can be climbing up and down a slide in at the play place in public. So I duck into the Children's Place and decide I have to buy some panties for her. So I put some panties on her and we go play.

When we get home it is time for Lilly's nap. Luckily she didn't pee pee in her panties and I put yet another cheap diaper on her (because cheap diapers always come in HUGE packs that seem never ending). I lay her down and start working. About an hour goes by and who do I hear walking down the stairs......Lilly. I hop up and ask the girls why they got Lilly up? They of course didn't because they know that mommy would KILL them so I was a little confused as to how she got out of her crib. I picked her up and.....no diaper on! We went upstairs and and found her diaper with pee pee in it thrown out of the crib and the only explanation for her to be out of the crib was that apparently she climbed out. She told me that she boinged out of the crib?

I ask her if she wants panties back on or her diaper and she opts for the panties. So she is now running around in panties. The girls were playing out front and Lilly went to follow them. She ran outside and as I am watching her she pees all over the sidewalk and her dress.

So now she is completely naked and I don't know why but I didn't put a diaper back on her immediately. I guess I had a subconscious thought that maybe if I kept her naked she would miraculously go pee pee on the potty. I am giving that up. So I am making dinner and Josey comes running downstairs saying that Lilly pooped on her bed. I ran upstairs and yes Lilly had been standing on Josey's bed looking at something and pooped a BIG poop on her pillow! Lilly was freaked out and couldn't stop babbling about her, "really BIG poop, big girl poop". Josey on the other hand found it very funny. I had a very disgusting thought right away to get the camera to blog about it......you are all very lucky I snapped back into my senses! And Lilly really wanted to touch it. Luckily I was able to talk her into just smelling it. So gross!

So the moral of the story is (kinda) don't buy cheap diapers because if the diaper hadn't fallen off her at the mall she probably never would have pooped on Josey's bed.