Diapers, diapers...and more diapers!

Needless to say, we go through A LOT of diapers. I am a total schedule freak and we change the kids on schedule every day, right before they eat. We typically go through about 12-15 diapers a day on average. There is the occasional off-schedule poop or two and we end up using more diapers that day than on a typical day. Today is one of those days! It's a poop fest! The last couple of days, 2 out of 3 kids have pooped right after eating their morning bottle and so we've wasted extra diapers. So today I decided to be smart and change them after the morning bottle. I fed them, waited about 10 minutes and then changed them all. No poop...huh. So then I set them in their little chairs as they watched cartoons for a little bit so that I could go wash out their bottles. Before I could even rinse out the third bottle, Kate started whining. I walked into the living room and it smelled like we had been hit by a poop bomb! Not one, not two, but ALL THREE of them had pooped. And I had JUST changed them! There goes another three diapers down the tube. Not sure what's going on with them today, but it's not even noon yet and I've already changed 10 diapers! I realize a kid's gotta poop when a kid's gotta poop, but it's like throwing money into the garbage. Not to mention the fact that we had to order a bigger garbage can and have to pay more monthly for such can to account for our increased load of garbage.

The Three Happy Poopers