Duct tape and diapers

Ordinarily, one wouldn't think those two things go together, however at our house they are essential. It all started several months ago when Zane simply would not stay dressed during the night. When we put him to bed he would be wearing pajamas and a diaper, however, when we'd go check on him, most of the time he'd be stark naked.

Our first solution to the problem was to put a safety pin through the zipper so he couldn't unzip his pajamas. It wasn't too long before Zane figured out how to un-do the safety pin (I hate smart kids!)

Once the safety pin was no longer effective, we started putting him to bed in a onesie. For the longest time he could not un-snap them. But like all good things, this solution came to an end.

So once again, we're back to square one, that is until we had the brilliant idea of wrapping tape around the top of the diaper. Ok, so that only worked for a day or two before he could rip the masking tape off. So we switched to packing tape and got the same results as we had with the masking tape.

At this point, there was no more messing around for us, it was time to bring out the big guns--duct tape. At first all the duct tape did was slow down the process of becoming a nakey boy. We were at a loss, how the heck do we keep this kid in a diaper at night? My husband had a stroke of genius one day and came up with the perfect solution that has been working for a few months now. Rather than sticking the end of the duct tape to the diaper, we now stick the two ends of the duct tape together. Since we started doing this, Zane has yet to get his diaper off at night (knock on wood).