yummy wool covers

I'm still cloth diapering. Yes. Both boys. I end up needing to do a load of diapers about every 1.5 days, which means sometimes I wash 2 days in a row and other times I wash every other day. It just depends on how active their little systems are in any given 24 hour period. I will admit that it really isn't as bad as people make it out to be having two in diapers. Then again, we're not really buying many paper sposies at the store every week; the cloth is already paid for.

Our stash is not all that large, but what we have is holding up. I was able to score 8 one-size bum genius pocket diapers which will work on both boys (one size, really, it's amazing) though at home they only go on Lowell. James has a bunch of size L happy heinys pockets that he's in most of the time, though I am leaning more and more toward putting him in prefolds again to give the potty training a bit of a boost since he doesn't feel wet in the pockets.

I'm also using up prefolds on Lowell now that I have enough wool covers (two to be exact) so that I am able to rotate them throughout the day. He is a mighty pee'er and the prefolds seem to be more absorbent than the microfiber inserts in the pockets. Maybe cuz they're a bit bigger? Everybody online seems to rave about the microfiber but I haven't been blown away or anything by its absorbency. Same with hemp. Yes, it is absorbent, but a downside is how darn heavy it gets when it's wet. Call me old fashioned, but I like the prefolds.

The wool covers do a much better job at keeping his clothes and blankets dry than the prowraps I've got. I think I'm going to offer up my bummis covers on diaperswappers.com since I only used them on both boys once to try the fit. They're all practically brand new. I'll probably end up offering them FFS (free for shipping, meaning that whoever just pays for shipping and I mail 'em out) since they're not a high-demand cloth diapering item. I won't be able to sell the wool covers for anything once we're done with them since I'm not licensed by the pattern-makers. I do know of some great places to donate them, though, where they'll get lots of love and go to a good cause. I might just hang onto them, though, really, because we don't feel like our family is complete and I will definitely be cloth diapering any other kids we end up having.

The only downside I've thought of with the wool covers and cloth diapering is that I'm short on knitting time and meanwhile, Lowell is growing! I need to start knitting some size M covers to keep up with him, plus it would be nice to have more than a measly two covers to choose from and rotate in my stash!

I took pictures of Lowell in the latest cover - black - so I'll be posting that after the next download and photoshop session in getting the pics off the memory card.