The other day I was home from work (because of a horrible night dealing with the kidney stones I've had for the past week and a half).  I was sitting at the dining room table with Hannah when she looked at me and said

"Mama, I go shopping with you!"
I replied by saying "Pardon" I thought I had maybe misunderstood what she said
She says again "I wanna go shopping with you"
My internal reply "I SOOO love this child, I hope Daddy has his wallet ready"
My external reply "Oh baby, I'd love to go shopping with you too"

We didn't go shopping...

but we do have a trip planned to head to Birch Run Prime outlets for the weekend of August 20th.  :)

I'll put my disclaimer first -  I was not given any products or compansation for this review.  I purchased all diapers and inserts myself and am giving my honest opinion about this product.

I purchased 24 Baby Kanga diapers around the beginning of June.  The reason for the purchase was for our new arrival in November but I figured since Hannah was still wearing diapers we'd try them on her before the new baby came.  I was super excited.  I had heard pretty good things about this pouch diapers and couldn't wait to get started.



The pouch is located on the outside of the diaper to make insert removal clean and easy. Just unzip and shake it over your diaper pail to get the insert out. The zipper closure makes stuffing easy and keeps the insert inside where it belongs.

The colour selection is amazing and I was excited to choose the colours I wanted, I won't bore you with all the colours I chose but look at this selection

Hi Kandice,

What are you using to stuff your Baby Kangas so far (and are they the only diapers you are using at night?) Are the inserts soaked in the morning? It might be that your little girl is just wetting a *lot* at night now that she is... older (mine were like that!) and that she needs more absorbency than what you are currently using... With that said... it may even be that you may need more absorbency than what will actually fit inside a Baby Kangas diaper(!)-some kids actually wet that much over night (when you think about it--they often sleep 12+ hours so it can be a LOT of pee!) That may be the reason for the sore legs--the diaper might be too small for night use with the extra stuffing for her--you may need to use a different system for night time--either a sized pocket diaper or a fitted diaper and cover system where you can add extra inserts/doublers -either way where I would recommend going *up* a size from where you would normally buy for her weight measurement--to allow for the extra absorbency that she would need--so probably a large or extra large depending on the brand. I have cloth diapered all 3 of my kids - 2 that wet a LOT at night and I always recommend putting MORE than you think you will need in the diaper - then check to see how much is left dry in the morning and then gauge from there how much (if any!!) you can subtract from there for the next night... Of course this can change over time but it can give you a pretty good idea for a while! I recommend hemp or bamboo stuffers/inserts for overnight for sure but again--you probably need more than what you are using as it sounds like you just don't have enough absorbency to make it through the night!


I hope that helps!


Holly

I thought that was a decent response even though I thought it a bit strange that they recommend using a different system all together. 
 
So here's my final verdict....
 
Ease of use - Very easy to figure out the snaps for both rise and waist adjustment.  Stuffing is SO easy and the front zip up pocket is amazing.  I love it!  Shaking out the insert over the pail is easy and never requires you to touch a soiled diaper.  The diapers are very easy to put on (even my husband commented on it) although I have noticed the rise snaps have popped open a couple of times I've tried the smaller rise on my daughter.

This is just a quick post because I woke up this morning and thought, can life get any better than this?

1. Hearing Hannah first thing in the morning scream call me through the monitor.  It doesn't matter what day it is, it always starts with "MMMAAAAMMMMMMAAAAAA"
2. Feeling Baby boy first thing in the morning, dancing away inside as if to say "Good morning Mama"
3. Walking into Hannahs room every morning and seeing her beautiful smile looking back at me
4. Taking her back to my room with "Elmo, dolly and SuSu" (susu is her name for her soother). So we can snuggle and watch cartoons for a few minutes!
5. Snuggling in bed with Hannah, dolly and Elmo.  Seriously Hannah has the most soft smushy toddler skin ever and I just love getting close
6. Getting my first hug in the morning from Chris.  He always knows just how to squeeze the sleepiness out of me!
7. Going downstairs and being greeted by my niece.  They live in the basement of our house while saving money for their first house.  I'm really going to miss them when they are no longer living with us.  It'll be really hard on all of us.
8. Tim Hortons - need I say more?
9. Turning my computer on each morning to see what's new on the interwebs!
10. Going home after a long and sometimes stressful day to see my beautiful little girl.  Most every night she crawls on my lap when I get home for a quick snuggle session before our crazy night time routine starts and the day is done!

Really, I am truly blessed to have such an amazing life!  I probably could think of a million more things during the day that make me smile for instance...

11. talking to my mom at least 1 but it's usually more like 3 or 4 times on the phone throughout the day.  I love that we have such a close relationship! 

12.  Walking down the stairs at work when Chris and I are going out for lunch (we work at the same place) and he's standing there wait for me.  He isn't usually there and I have to wait FOREVER for him, but when he is it always makes me smile.

Okay that's it!  I'll leave it with 12! 

What makes you smile everyday?  Tell me about it.

I'm challenging myself to a 31 day ProBlogger Summer Challege put on by SITS.  If you're not familiar with SITS check them out here - especially if you're interested in getting more readers to your blog and spreading some love to other women bloggers around the world.

The ProBlogger Summer Challege is set up to get bloggy behinds whipped into shape.  Each day for 31 days, we’ll focus on one task that will help stretch and build those blogging muscles, transforming your blog into a lean, mean blogging machine.

At the end of the challenge I will have:

• Written a variety of different types and styles of posts 
• Learned techniques for coming up with new post ideas
• Promoted your blog in a variety of ways
• Built relationships with readers
• Reached out to and developed working relationships with other bloggers
• Developed an editorial calendar for your blog
• Discovered ways to be more connected to your niche/topic
• Designed a plan for your next month of blogging

 
I'm excited!!!  I am a couple of days behind but I will get caught up and be right on track with everyone else that is doing the challenge as well!
 

I haven't forgot about my goals to become a skinny yummy mommy.  I started this blog a while back to track my progress in weight loss and the goals I wanted to set for myself in terms of getting healthy and happy with my life and body.  It still is even though it took a little turn when I found out I was pregnant in February (yeah it's been that long already!!!)

I just wanted to give everyone that reads my blog and myself a quick reminder of what I want to do!

• Loose 60lbs
• Run - I don't need to run a maraton or anything like that although maybe in the way future I could do something like that.  I just want to be able to run, go for a 30 minute run and not be totally stupid exhausted by the time I get back.
• Feel good about my body
• Eat healthy

I still have my gym membership but I've been really bad and haven't gone in a long time.  I was still going  when I got over the inital morning sickness but then it just sort of stopped.  I am too tired and just don't seem to have the drive to go to the gym during my lunch break.  That will change.  I pay for the membership why the heck not use it.  It's a great facility and has some wonderful resources.  I'm really not sure I'll get back to the gym before the baby is born but when baby boy is born it'll be November so cold, snowy and wintering.  So I probably won't be doing a whole lot of walking outside so I'll have to figure something out so that I can still get to the gym. 

I'll figure it out!  I really want to do it!

I am currently 25 weeks pregnant and 227 lbs - up about 4 lbs from when I first started this blog!

This is a post about a stroller! Yeah real exciting eh? But I need help!!!  As you know we're expecting a second baby in November.  We've started to shop around for baby "things".  One of those things is a stroller...this is the problem, I'm not sure we really need a stroller.  Okay, lets go back a few steps here.

Hannah is 2 years 2 months old, when the baby is born she will be 2.5 years old.  She loves to walk, run, skip, etc. but she doesn't mind being in her stroller if we are out shopping, etc.

Baby boy, well he doesn't really have a lot to do with this, it's mostly about Hannah right now.

At first I thought for sure we would need a double stroller.  I started looking and found this.....