Another ABUniverse Order

ABUniverse is known for selling disposable diapers designed for adult babies and others who refuse to grow up, and now they offer a type of disposable diaper that has one tape per side, much like baby diapers. They call it the Super Dry Kids diaper.

One of the things I have said repeatedly over the years is that an adult disposable diaper doesn't look or feel babyish if all you do is enlarge the diaper in two dimensions and use the same size tapes. This is why I like thick disposable diapers -- I'm bigger than a little baby in three dimensions, not just two, so my diapers should be bigger in all three dimensions too, and that means thickness. And then there are the tapes. The reason why adult diapers have two or even three tapes per side while baby diapers only have one is that they use the same size tapes, rather than using tapes that are proportionally larger, so they have to compensate for the fact that they don't hold the diaper together right by using multiple anchor points. I have always wanted to try an adult disposable diaper that had a single large tape per side.

Well now I'm going to -- I ordered some of these new diapers from ABUniverse. The problem is that I ordered them on November 1, and today is November 16, and they're still not here. When I ordered, I got an email saying that they would ship no later than November 4. Now, I did select FedEx Ground to save shipping costs, but I don't think that's why the order wasn't picked up until November 10. Maybe there's a lot of demand for these; I don't know. Anyway, they were supposed to arrive today, but FedEx had some kind of delay, so I guess they'll finally be getting here tomorrow.

Another thing that ABUniverse has been doing is dressing up some Abena Abriform X-Plus disposables with some nursery-print taping panels. This is sort of overkill, because Abena uses those two-piece refastenable tapes, but these are my favorite type of disposables, so I'm trying out some of those too. Tomorrow should be an interesting day.

I hope everybody is doing well and staying happy!

Old news but still maybe useful

Hi again! Wow, it's been a while since I posted to this. Well, let's see if I can do better at staying up to date.

This may be old news for people, or it may not. There's some kind of law against selling toddler sippy cups that hold more than 12 ounces of liquid in the USA. Ridiculous as that is, we're stuck with it, even those of us who would like our sippy cups to be larger than that.

Well, the solution is to buy a sippy cup lid that fits onto a larger cup or bottle. At Klean Kanteen, they sell stainless steel sports bottles of various sizes and colors. Since they're stainless steel, they can't pick up the taste of whatever's in them like plastic can, and they're very durable. However, they aren't particularly well insulated (insulating sleeves sold separately), and you can't microwave them.

But the important thing is that they also sell a sippy cup version of their bottle, which is really just the 12-ounce bottle with a special lid that accommodates an Avent sippy cup spout. But all their bottles have the same size opening on top. Also, they sell this special lid separately. So all you really have to do is order one of their sports bottles in whatever size and color you want, then go to their Accessories page and buy a sippy cup lid. You can have a sippy cup of any size and color they sell!