Thankful day 8

Today I am thankful for disposable diapers. I know it's not good for the planet, and we try to do our part by potty training quickly lol, but wow, what a time saver over the course of 9 children. I am also thankful for having successfully potty trained 6 children and that we're about to start another...to have JUST one in diapers? Is it possible in the Valencic household? Trying to remember...

We were in college when we first started having children and the cloth diapering options at the time were ultra expensive and time consuming... we knew how to bargain shop and stocked up on disposable diapers and while we've used a large part of our income on diapers, per child it hasn't been very expensive with the deals we find... just adds up when you have three in diapers at once, which we've done twice now. Correction- 4 times.

We've been changing diapers since November of 1996... one in diapers then, 2 in diapers starting October of 1998, 3 in diapers starting April of 2000, oldest potty trained soon after so 2 in diapers again until July of 2001 when we had 3 in diapers for nearly 2 weeks... and then 2 in diapers again until September 2002 when 2nd potty trained. So 1 in diapers from September 2002 til March of 2003, when child 3 was ALMOST ready to train... March 2003 we had 2 in diapers until July of 2003 when we had just 1 in diapers again... January 2005 we had 2 in diapers again until June of 2006 when 3rd boy potty trained. November of 2006 we had 2 in diapers again. March of 2008 we had 3 in diapers, and in June or July we potty trained the 4th boy and had 2 in diapers again... November of 2009 we had 3 in diapers again... October of 2010 we have 2 in diapers again after potty training the 5th boy.

Summary- 1 in diapers- 3 times, when we had our first, when our 3rd lost her baby brother, and when our 5th was a baby.
2 in diapers- 7 times, when 2nd was born, when 1st potty trained, when 4th passed away, when 5th was born, when 6th was born, when 7th was born, and now when 7th potty trained.
3 in diapers- 4 times- when 3rd was born before 1st trained, when 4th was born for those 12 days, when 8th was born, and then when 9th was born. The longest time was the year from when baby 9 was born til little boy was trained just a few weeks ago.

Long and boring and full of useless information for my own remembering.