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Our First Great Cloth Diaper Change!!

Hasting & I were able to attend our very first Great Cloth Diaper Change today! We had such a great time & Hasting was such a great baby the whole time!

For those of you who are clueless as to what this event is: every year people around the world take part in an event to break the previous world record of the most cloth diapers changed at one time! It is such an amazing thing to see the record being broken every year, just to know that many more people have either converted to cloth or chosen to cloth their new babies!

Hasting & I had the privilege to take part in breaking a record & being one of the statistics in The Guiness Book of World Records :)

We went to All About Baby Boutique in Greensboro, which was where the event was being hosted the closest to us. It was so great to see so many people there, even daddies! Chad wasn't able to come because he had to work, so were hoping next year he has the opportunity.

Light refreshments were set up for everyone to enjoy & you could hop around in the boutique before & after the event. When we arrived we signed a photo consent form for all the pictures that were taken, & we also received a number! Each participant was given a number. Once we went upstairs we were escorted to the room that our number was in. Hasting & I were number 20. Each number had a big square area tapped off in a room. You had enough space for you, your baby, your diaper bag, and even another person! We also had a goodie bag waiting on us in our square :) Hasting and I won a Planet Wise Snack Bag today!

Before the change, a photographer came in, & we all held up our clean cloth & had our picture taken as a group! When 12:30pm rolled around a whistle was sounded & we all began changing our babies bum! Once we were finished we all held our babies cloth bottoms up & had another picture taken :)

It was so awesome to be a part of this and meet some wonderful people! Hasting & I can't wait to do it again next year, possibly with daddy & hopefully a baby gray #2!!

Here are a few pictures from the event:

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