Brush

Penny tried very hard to say "brush" last night and this morning. I tried to show her how to say it by exaggerating the sounds, and last night she attempted the "sh" part. This morning I was relating the story to Tray and we tried again. She tried to do the "b" part (b/c she can say bop), but that's as far as she got. You could tell she was trying sooo hard, but just couldn't get her mouth to do what she saw us doing. Her determination was very cute.

In other news, my laptop died. I didn't really lose much, although there were some very recent pictures that I hadn't backed up. I've got two weeks until my final dissertation has to be in to the university (with all the changes made that were suggested at my defense), so it's a pain to have it die now. I'm typing this on Tray's computer. I don't feel comfortable downloading a bunch of photos to this computer since it is technically his work computer, so even though I took some photos of P in her new diapers I'll have to wait to post them. However, here's a link to the brand I bought. I love the company I bought them from. They give "reward points" for purchases and 500 points gets you a $30 gift card. The cool thing is I wrote a guest blog post for their blog and they "paid" me with 75 points! Next month I am thinking I might try some of the FuzziBunz. They are almost as popular as the bumGenius and would probably be moreso, but bumGenius definitely has better marketing and distribution. I'd love to try to sew one of my own, but I think putting elastic on the leg holes is beyond my current capabilities.

The cloth diapering world in Tallahassee is so funny to me. Anybody who is anybody in town cloth diapers. It is almost like a status symbol to them, so there are many, many people who cloth diaper. On the other hand, anybody in El Salvador the neighborhood we live in would look at you like, "You do what now?" if you mentioned cloth diapers. However, it would be really nice to meet some moms who fall in the middle ground between the ones who push the $1,000 strollers but carry their kids in this anyway, and the moms who live out here.