The Diaper Dilema

Which diaper will she choose?

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Now, if you have ever talked diapers with me, you already know the answer. We are 100% Pampers. Olivia's body does NOT work with other diaper brands. I know it sounds pathetic, like I am a "name brand" Mama, but I really don't care about being name brand. At Costco they unfortunately only sell Costco brand or Huggies. So, we've given Huggies a try and 90% of the time that she pooped, it did not stay in the diaper. It was a sad day since they are so much cheaper buying bulk from Costco. Luckily at the time we still had a membership to Sam's Club, who sold Pampers in bulk. Our membership was expiring very soon though (and we've decided to go with Costco instead of Sam's...) SO, I bought like $200 worth of diapers while we still could. It's a sad sad day because our diapers have run out... So, when I was at Costco I thought I'd give the Costco brand a try thinking Olivia was done with the poop-out stage. She has pooped out 0 times in Pampers and has been just in them for over 4 months now. So, I thougt I'd give these new ones a chance. So, it's been 1 week in the Costco brand diapers. She has had 3 blow-outs now. In ONE week people! Last night it was so bad she had to go in the bath because it All up her back and when we pulled her shirt off, all over her neck and head too. SICK!!! So, it appears she will NEVER be over the blow-out stage, it's just the diapers that keep it in or out. BTW- Natalie, you don't have to buy the reat of our Costco diapers from us, we'll just use them for night-time (she doesn't poop in the night) Thanks for offering though!!

On a good note- in the parenting magazine they have a GREAT advertisement for Diapers.com. You can get $10 off your first order! Enter code:PTG3 Expires 3/31/08 (my Birthday!)

Our Thanksgiving

We went to Brett's parents house for Thanksgiving this year. It was good food, and lots of fun. We played Monopoly (Amy won, and was so excited about it, she's never won before) We watched "Hairspray" and played PIT after dinner. We had 7 different pies. WOW! It was GRRREAT! Thanks for dinner Sherri- we're lucky to have such a good cook in the family!

On Friday we put up our Christmas lights and hung our stockings!

Also, Olivia has taken an interest in hair lately. She loves to brush and style my hair. Maybe she's just like me!

Complete Randomness..

Liv's favorite hang-out spot... the fridge

What Liv looks like on our walks.. hehehe

So, lately Brett and I have been loving "Timbaline" a music artist... We just can't get enough. Click here to listen to one of our latest favorites. Also, have you sceen THIS video!? Oh my... it made Brett and I laugh. what a CRRRRAZY lady. Well, theres more I want to blog about, but I'll save it for later, Olivia wants to go to bed!

Olivia's Latest

Latest and Greatest from Sarisker on Vimeo.
Sorry the clips are a little short- It's hard to make her do what I want on video.. You know how it goes! Along with her No no no's, she also is saying " yo yo yo" and "o-e-o-e-o" and "Ut- Ooooh" It's so funny to listen to.

Go BYU !

We got to go to the last BYU football game. Brett was so excited. We forgot the tickets at home, so we missed kick-off and Brett was pretty sad about it. BUT it was still fun, and Livie was pretty much an angel for the most part. For her good behavior she got a new BYU hat (I knew she had been wanting one..hehe!) Oh, and incase your wondering, that blue splotch on Olivia's face was SUPPOSED to be a blue Y, but it rubbed off and never looked that great from the beginning. oooh well.

Random Livie Facts

Okay, the pictures have nothing to do with my post, but they are so funny. Olivia was desperately trying to get into the pantry to get her cheerios... What a funny girl (I'm not sure how the leg lift helps open doors..)

As of now here are some things Livie is doing... This is mostly so I can look back and know for myself and Livie can know what some of her first words, ect. (not bragging...)

Olivia is almost 15 months old now. (She's exactly 1 year, 2 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days old)

She came up with a new dance move last week that is hilarious. She stomps her feet like she's a little tap dancer (I've tried to get video, but of course she stops when I want to film..) Her old, or most used dance move previous to this was just a bounce/ squat move where she bounced to the beat of the music.

She knows what most objects are but can't say them yet. But if we tell her "go get me a diaper..etc." She will generally always get what we want

She says "OOOOO" for a cow and "oo.. ooo" for a dog. She also says the word "dog"

She says "ite" for light and loves to point out where there are lights. She came up with this on her own, we didn't teach her... Pretty smart girl!

She LOVES candy and anything sweet

She absolutely loves bath time and gets very upset of I take a shower without her (she takes baths by herself, not showers with me btw)

Her favorite words of all time are "Da" (dada, dad, D, Daddy...) and "HI! "

I find it hard to teach her new words because she will always points at things and say "this, this?" instead of calling it by it's name. It can be pretty annoying. I say "NO Olivia, a binky (or whatever word I'm trying to teach)" and she always points to it and says "This"

Olivia's hair measures 4.5 inches in some spots!

So, this is what I can think of off the top of my head, I know theres more, but oh-well!

A bug from Texas

I quote Nettie saying "I've been bitten by the quilting bug"... When I saw her post, the bug came to Utah and bit me!
This is the quilt I made for my co-worker April who is having a baby boy in December. She just had her shower so I only had a few days to put it together. It was such cute fabric... It turned out a bit too "busy" but still cute!

This is the quilt I am making for our living room. I wanted to put it on the couch like a throw or something.. It's still not done. I have to put the backing on, do the quilting, and bind it. (my least favorite part of the process)
And yes, all my quilts are the same pattern. It's the only one I have. It's easy and I like it! The NEXT quilt will be different though!

Giraffe Love'n'

Livie with pumpkins

CANDY!

Last night we stayed home to pass put candy (including the candy Liv collected at the trunk-or treat so we wouldn't eat it!) Anyway- every time the door bell rang I ran to the door and said "yea! trick or treaters!" and Livie came running to the door with me. She grinned and giggled and LOVED the trick-or- treaters. She always said "HI!" and as they left she would wave and say "hi. hi!" (she still doesn't quite understand that it's "bye", but at least she waves with the good-byes!) So, the door shuts, I put the candy bowl back on the table and what does Olivia do?! She starts SCREAMING at the top of her lungs and reaches for the candy. Did this happen just once!? NO! EVERY single time someone came to the door the vicious cycle would repeat. I tried hiding the candy before I shut the door, but she still wanted it. Olivia LOOOOOVES candy. We should have never let her try her 1st sucker a week ago.