Laundry for Thirty Two

First off, I was single, and I did laundry for one person, me. Then I got married, and I did twice as much laundry, which seemed reasonable. Then Harrison was born and the amount of laundry doubled again, which I was again willing to accept, given that he spit up a lot, and that we used cloth diapers.
This is where it starts to get tricky. Katherine was born, and the laundry seemed to double again. Now I'm doing enough laundry not for four people, or even six, but for eight. And it didn't seem to decrease any, even when they had both stopped wearing diapers.
Now I'm starting to get some what frustrated, but I don't have the sense to stop. Franklin is born, and you guessed it, enough laundry for sixteen people. We thought we were done, but God, and Gregory, had other ideas. At least by then it didn't surprise me any more.

And thus we arrive at the "Laws Law of Laundry Propagation," stating that the amount of laundry will double whenever another person is added to the household. There are two corrollaries to this law: 1) The amount of laundry for the household will never decrease again once increased, and 2) Almost any change in circumstances of a household will increase the amount of laundry, even if that change has no discernable relationship to laundry.