Costco Brand Diapers?

Did any of you use the Costco brand diapers on your baby girls? I have never tried them before and I was wondering if they leaked or not. I used Luvs with my other two, but I would rather switch to the Costco brand if they are good. Please leave me your opinion. Thanks!

Sibley's 2nd Grade Music Concert

Sibley is wearing the green shirt and has a scarf around her neck. (Thanks for the scarf Aunt Jenny!) She did a great job and we are very proud of her! She really enjoys her music class and loves singing the recital songs to all of us. Sadie really liked the concert too. She danced around in my belly throughout the entire thing.

The Ghost Story of Sindy Lou, by Sibley Slade

[Sibley is really into ghost stories. She wrote this one all by herself, and Bryant found it in the car the other morning. I wanted to share it. I think it is awesome. Leave a comment and let us know what you think. So as to preserve her unique writing style, I will keep the punctuation just as she wrote it.]

This all happened in 1925. When the cowboys were out. One was going out to get some water down by the lake. When someone or a ghost walked by it looked like the old woman I would hear about in stories. Then he ran home calling a ghost a ghost. It's after me. To his older brothers. They said what's wrong. He said the ghost of Sindy Lou is at the lake. So I ran home. So that night they all went down to the lake. They all got scared when they saw Sindy. And they all ran home. The next day they all went down to the lake. They didn't see Sindy Lou. They walked home. Sindy Lou was at their house but they didn't know. Because she was hiding in the broom closet all night. In the end Sindy Lou found her way to the spirit world and never came back ever again. The End.

My Feisty Baby and Foreign Christmas Traditions

Since this might be my last pregnancy, I want to remember everything - the good, the bad, and the ugly. So, lucky you, you get to go through this journey with me! Sadie has gotten really feisty lately. Every time I lean against the counter to grab a dish, etc., she kicks at it. And when the cat comes and lays on my belly, she tries her best to kick her off. She lets me know as soon as she wakes up every morning. Sometimes she kicks me so hard it surprises me. Y'all know I startle really easily (like Mama). So every once in a while she will give me a good hard kick and catch me totally off guard, and I will scream.

Also, she has started stomping on my bladder. I really haven't been uncomfortable until the last week or so, which makes sense because I'm going into my third trimester. Anyway, those are the latest happenings in my belly. I can't wait to see how much she has grown and developed at my 28 week ultrasound.

On a side note, I went back to work yesterday. I taught first grade, and let me tell y'all, I got broken back in. I had forgotten how demanding teaching first grade is. I have a third grade class on Friday. Friday should be much easier. I had one little fat boy yesterday who cried all day. Every time I would hand out a new assignment, he would cry and say he couldn't do it, before he would even look at it good. I feel bad for his permanent teacher.

But, I digress. I wanted to tell y'all about a little girl. The first grade teachers switch classrooms for Social Studies, so I went in to the classroom next door to teach about Christmas in Australia. When I walked in, a little girl in the front of the class said, "Hey! You're that lady with a baby girl in your stomach." I said, "You're right. I do have a baby girl in my stomach. How did you know that?". She said, "I saw you outside this morning and I just knew you had a baby girl in there." Anyway, I was amazed at this little seer. Also, Christmas in Australia is quite different from ours. Here are just a few differences I learned about:

They leave Santa Claus biscuits and beer instead of milk and cookies.
They decorate Eucalyptus trees because there are no Evergreen trees there.
Since Christmas is in Summer there, Santa wears a swimsuit and rides a surfboard.

On the other hand, we get many of our American Christmas traditions from Germany. Germany is where they started to decorate and light Evergreen trees, or the Tannenbaum. Germany is also where the tradition of Gingerbread houses began. And in Germany, the bad children get sticks instead of presents, just like here. It's fun to go back to first grade and learn things sometimes.