Mom's view

L, who will be five months old Thursday, is cutting a tooth! Unfortunately, we seem to have lost one of her favorite teethers--the nipple ball (thanks for the tip and name, Melissa)--at a big box store (aka The Evil Place) this morning. I bought the teether through kidsurplus.com for $3, and to avoid paying shipping costs, spent another $97 on cloth diapers and supplies, which I had previously decided against buying because I estimated they would cost as much as disposables. Two weeks and $280 into the cloth diaper experiment, I have free advice for anyone who wants it: if you love doing laundry, choose cloth.