Bee Changed - A Diaper Review

As many of you know I'm a big cloth diaper fan, in fact when I first started a blog it was called Travel, Fluff, and Other Stuff (on Everything Mom).  I often did diaper reviews and one of my first posts was about how I got into cloth diapering.  When a new cloth diaper store called The Little Bee Cloth Diaper Company was looking for people to review their new diapers I jumped at the chance.  I LOVE trying new fluff and they were kind enough to send me one.

the Company and the Diaper:
The Little Bee Cloth Diaper Co is quite new and and their biggest claim to fame is their misson to provide orphans around the world with clean cloth diapers.  For every cloth diaper that is purchased (and along with this review) a diaper will be donated to an orphan in need (you can read more about their story and mission).

The diaper that I am reviewing is the Bee Changed Microsuede Diaper in Guatemalan Morning Mud.  The Bee Changed is a onesized pocket diaper with snap closures.  The one part of this diaper that sets it apart from most others is the elastic waist in the front and back of the diaper.  This diaper also come with two microfiber inserts which can be snapped together.

 The Bee Changed Diaper

The Bee Changed Diaper Insides

the Tester:
When testing a diaper in ideal conditions the subject would fit a variety of age, weight, and body shapes.  I however only have access to my son (there are other people who are testing this diaper with different babies so their reviews might be more helpful if your baby is not built like mine - facebook should have access to them).
Callen is 7 months old, weighs about 18lbs, and is about 28 inches long.  He fits the skinnier mold of babies.

My Review


Overall the Bee Changed Microsude diaper is a well made and well constructed diaper.  The outer PUL lining is the softest I've ever felt and that softness holds up on even after line drying.  The microsuede lining is very soft, pulls away wetness, and is easy to remove solid waste.  The microfiber inserts are VERY absorbent in fact the second time I used the diaper I used the small newborn diaper instead of the regular one and it held up really well, no leaking.  The elastic on the front of the diaper is a good idea (especially for babies not yet on solid food) but the snaps then tend to snap a bit farther apart than other brands.  My son is  now crawling and the diaper moves very well, does not bunch and seams very comfortable.  My only complaint about these diapers are that the snap down only has two snaps across instead of three which creates puckering.

Trying to show the puckering (I have the diaper adjusted to the second rise)

 Finally my only suggestion for the future would be to offer fun prints, I know I LOVE prints but the colors available are really beautiful.  This diaper is worth the price and worth buying, your money is going a long way with this diaper especially sense each diaper you buy is really two (one for your baby and one for a child in  need).  I'd buy more and their wipes too (I was given a sample a few weeks ago and they are really great and very cute).

Action Shots

Fine print: This diaper was given to me by the Little Bee Diaper Co. in return for a review.  I am not affiliated with them at all and I gave my honest opinions on the diaper.  I was not solicited to make a good review for them, it just happens that I like their product.  If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me at andweareoffto @ gmail . com or contact Little Bee directly here.

Watermine

Summer in Northern Virginia is a mixed blessing for this Canadian.  While my family had snow June 1st, I was suffering through a week on 40 degree weather (Celsius that is ~ 104 F), I'm really not sure who had it worse.  But the nice thing about living here is that when it's warm there are so many nice pools where we can cool off in.  Our favorite at the moment is the Watermine.  It's the perfect waterpark for young kids and we go fairly often.

Our last trip gave us the opportunity to try out our new water camera, while we still need to do a bit more testing, like taking pictures under water, but it did do a good job of getting nice a wet.

What are you doing to me?

This sure is fun

Family floating time 

Watch out for the waterfall

Again, again

Yuck a frog swallowed me

Big Boy Slide

NO! He is not peeing

Best S'mores EVER

On our first camping trip of the season we managed to bring everything we needed BUT chocolate for our s'mores.  I could not believe this, how can you have s'mores without the chocolate?  The answer: Oreos.
We always pack Oreos with us when we camp and it turns out they make better S'mores than the traditional graham cracker, chocolate, marshmallow treat.  It was the BEST S'MORE EVER (especially when Mint Oreos are used).

How to make an Oreo S'more:

Step One: Open bag of Oreos and remove an oreo from bag

Step Two: Twist off top of Oreo and place on plate or side of chair for later

Step Three: Open marshmallow bag and put marshmallow on stick

Step Four: Roast marshmallow to perfection

Step Five: Put roasted marshmallow on one side of oreo then place other side on top of marshmallow to make sandwich

Step Six: Enjoy best S'more ever made

 Lesson in Marshmallow Safety

 Time to Roast

 Looks yummy.  Do I get one?

 Expert Roaster (Orange line is our fire safety DO NOT cross line), worked great.

 First Bite

 It sure is good

 Jumbo marshmallow roasted to perfection

 Okay maybe Jumbo marshmallows were not such a good idea

 Callen's Turn (NO I did not let him eat this, I'm sure he would have though)

 Callen's Turn to Roast (NO I did not let him put this in the fire, he was much to far away)

Oreo S'mores are good

Prince William Forest Park Camping

Our first camping trip of the season was over Easter weekend (yes I am terribly behind in my blogging) and we headed to Prince William Forest Park.  We had a bit of an adventure getting there as traffic was terrible and the clouds were getting pretty dark.  We did have a bit of rain and had our first meal in our tent trailer but the rest of the weekend was quite nice despite a wet forecast.

This was our first camping trip of the season and our first camping trip as a family of four and what amazes me most is how well of a packing job we did (considering how disorganized I've been).  We only missed a few things (one being chocolate for smores but I'll get into that in another post).

Callen's first camping trip was super smooth with no major sleeping issues.  He did get up a few time in the middle of the night but he was in our bed so it was easy to calm him back down or feed him if needed.  Camping with a baby in a camper is really easy.  Hopefully we'll have lots of trips this summer.

 Supper Inside

 Yum (Callen's 3rd day of solid food)

 Chilling outside

 Best Camping Chair Ever (KirstiG)

Pepper anyone?

Capitol and Arlington

So a few weekends ago we decided to check off a few things on our To Do List so we visited the US Capitol Building and the Arlington National Cemetery.   Both these sights were something we had been meaning to do and finally got around to it.

On a rainy Saturday morning we headed into D.C. to the US Capitol Building to check out the visitors center.  We decided not to go on the tour (this was during spring break so we were in school group over load) but we wondered around the visitors center for a bit.  It was very interesting and I must admit I hope we go back (maybe in September) to go on a tour when it's less crowded.

I must admit I did find it a bit weird that we were being tourists at a Cemetery but was very interesting and educational.  We were a bit late to get a good spot to see the changing of the guard but we did see some of it.  Tavish was not having a very good day as we choose not to bring the stroller (big mistake) and would not go in the Ergo so we did leave early not seeing all the "sights".

 Checking out the map

 Beautiful Spring Day

 Marines Memorial

 View of Washington

 Other Marines Memorial

 Changing of the Guard

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Burgers and Tennis

Well I'm back in the swing of things and I have some catching up to do as we have been really busy.  While this post has nothing to do with Travel, it is some of our adventures.

After Disney it was nice to have a weekend where we could just hang out at home.  We had just got a new patio set that needed trying out so Kyle fired up the BBQ for some burgers.

 Chilling out

 Yummy Burger

After dinner we headed out front to play some tennis.  Tavish will be taking tennis lesson in June (just because I think it will be FUNNY) so I gave him a racket to see how he'd do.

 He has potential

 Time for a quick lesson

 Better before the lesson

Okay eating the racket is more fun

Fixing the Flat - Done

We are finished with the DOC band.  Yeah.  In truth it was not that painful of an experience but we did get lucky catching Callen's plagiocephaly at such an young age (he was just 3.5 months when he got the band).  Callen only had to wear the band for 5.5 weeks and now that we are a month post band, it all seams a distant memory.

Callen officially finished his band on March 31st while we were on vacation.  While the plan was to have a very eventful day at Disney and then retire the helmet this was not the case (we got rained out at Disney) but none the less I did take a few picture of his last day in the band.

 Last Offical Day in the Band - New design too

My Climber

All Done

I must admit I was a bit disappointed that I did not get to take him out in his newly painted band (we switched up designs as I had one more design planned - I did  not think he'd be out of the band so fast) but we did put the band back on him for one last photo op when we got home (I had to take him climbing in his climbing themed band)

 Hitting the Rocks

 Getting Ready for the Big Climb

 Look at that Focus

 Pure Natural

 That's a long way up

Here let me give you a hand

 Tavish's turn to climb - notice his helmet too

Before and After Image

Here is a before and after image for those who are interested