Guest Speaker Jill Krause (Baby Rabies) is one of my all-time favorite female bloggers, and this past weekend at the Kangacare Natural Parenting Expo and Great Cloth Diaper Change in Denver, Colorado, she asked the crowd of parents: "Are you the parent you thought you'd be before you had children?" Needless to say, she was answered with the giggles a telling laughter of about a hundred parents who knew all too well the answer.
I am most definitely a different person now that I have a child. Even though my child may not be able to speak or walk yet, or even express happiness when she was a newborn, she has changed me and changed how I go about living. For instance, I just drug both her and my husband out to a parenting expo when we've been parenting for only four months (and I'm sure he thought I already knew everything there is to know about natural parenting), mostly just to hear my favorite blogger speak. Maybe having a baby has made me crazy, or maybe she's made me care about someone other than myself. However you choose to see it.
Regardless, I entirely enjoyed everything the expo had to offer, from the raffles (which many deserving women and men won) to the vendors (of which my favorites were Boba carriers and The Babywearing Workout), to the loot bags (they even included baby sunglasses). I'd have to say about three-quarters of the crowd was babywearing, which was wonderful to see! There was even lots of toddler-wearing! For me, it was a day of firsts. It was my first time participating in a world record, as well as my first time using the restroom with a baby strapped to me. These are learning experiences, folks!
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| My first Great Cloth Diaper Change. |
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| Forcing my husband to take a picture of us waiting in line. |
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| Lily and I were diaper change number ninety-nine. |
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| The simultaneous cry of 187 babies being held in the air against their will. |
