31

John turned 31 this past Sunday. I unfortunately had to work the night before so I had to nap on his birthday and then had a baby shower to go to in the afternoon. Of course John didn't mind- he is so laid back. The baby shower was so much fun, I don't know if I've ever been to one so nice! I still wanted John to feel a little special, so I brought donuts home for breakfast on my way home from work (he also made breakfast- pancakes and bacon). We then went out for a really nice dinner after I got home from the baby shower, while Jenny and Nick watched Olivia. It was so nice to be able to take time and enjoy our meal rather than rushing! We did joke that we spent a lot of time talking about Olivia when she wasn't even there- but that's what most people do, right?! Anyway I got him a blown up canvas of the picture of him throwing up Olivia into the air. He seemed to really like it. I also got him a weekend river rafting trip that him and Nick are going on in July! He sounds really excited so I'm hoping he has fun!


The baby shower:

We walked over the falls after dinner. The weather was so nice!

Us.


Happy birthday John! I couldn't imagine a better husband or daddy to Olivia!

playground

Olivia is loving being outdoors these days. Anything having to do outside, especially the playground and slide. She runs to the backdoor daily and request "side side!" She has a sandbox type toy on the back deck that she loves and her favorite is digging in the dirt and getting totally messy.

Here are some photos from the other day with Amanda and Elsie. We took the girls to the park since it was such a nice day out!












Olivia can now get up on the play equipment without any help and go down the slide all on her own. She does face first and also sits and goes feet first.

We brought some bubbles too.

Sitting still for a fraction of a second!

Amanda and Elsie

Olivia was trying to follow a bird.

I hope we continue to get more sunny days so we can spend more time outside! I know Olivia would like that too!

new pictures

Here are some pictures of the last couple weeks! They are sort of out of order, but you can get the idea. :)

Us on mothers day. Not the best picture, but its what I have! We went to the davenport for brunch after this and it was AMAZING!

At the park on bloomsday

With her new sand and water table. The stunned look is she just heard John. After this snapshot she quickly turned around! It was pretty funny!


Deep concentration

Another new thing she likes to do- put on mommys shoes.

Trying to feed sand to George

Not a good picture of me, put you can see she gives kisses!

At tumbling class last night with us. She loves it! We are in an evening class now so John can come and it is only the 2 kids in the group versus the last group weere in that had 11 kids! Its kind of nice to have so much attention!

She is very good at holding herself and swinging on the bar

Bouncing off the springboard

Olivia being silly. She was running and "hiding" from me by laying flat and still on the floor.

She was crazy about the camera that day too and kept wanting to see the "baby" on it.

That's all the pictures we have for now! She is so much fun and so silly and happy most of the time! We are so lucky to have such a sweet girl!

19 months

Here are some stats on our little Olivia at 19 months! No pictures, but I will upload some soon! We have some cute ones of her from mothers day and with her new sand and water table. :)

- weighs about 24.5 pounds, in the 56%

- wears 18 month clothes, and some 2T. Usually have to roll up the sleeves on the 2T clothes though!

- wears a size 4 diaper

- still sleeps about 12 hours at night and usually has one good nap of 2.5-3 hours in the afternoon.

- is still our active crazy girl! Runs everywhere, rarely sits down for long. Lately she is absolutely loving being outdoors playing with bubbles or her new sand and water table. She stands at the backdoor and says "side! Side!" it is hard to get her to come back in once she is put there though!

- has now had swimming and tumbling classes. She does great at both and likes them a lot! She has gotten good at her log rolling and hanging from a bar. I'm looking forward to signing her up for swimming again soon!

- still loves to eat almost everything. Doesn't like eggs at all and meat is not her favorite. ( she does love taco chicken and teriyaki chicken) her favorites are still yogurt that she feeds herself and probably cheese. She also loves her "snacks". She yells snacks and bangs on the cupboard door with her little cup until yup give her something! She knows what she likes! Usually she gets crackers and apple slices for a snack.

- her vocabulary has exploded over the past couple months! She will pretty much repeat everything and says a ton of words. Here is a list: no, please, thank you, dog, cat, momma, daddy, papa, Madeline, Julie, Nick, hi, binky, owl, book, ball, shoes, socks, shirt, wawa ( water), snacks, cracker, juice, ice, egg, elmo, outside, bye bye, see you, bucket, tractor, airplane, and truck. She also says uh oh quite frequently and " ucky" when pointing to her dirty diaper! I'm sure I'm forgetting several words but those are what I can think of! She also puts words together now which is fun. She will say daddy truck, mommy shoes, etc. It is so nice to be able to communicate with her a little! Oh and she also does all her animal sounds, but it very good with the chicken in particular with acting it out too!

- still has the bump on her bottom lip that she has had for months now, and is going to see an oral surgeon to have it removed. Who knew biting a lip could result in something serious? It seems to bother her a little, so we need to get it done. No fun for us or her! Poor girl! We have the consultation on the 26th and then we will see what the surgeon says about it!

- she has recently learned how to take off her pajamas in he morning so we come into her room with a happy bouncing naked girl! She is too funny.

- she also give kisses now which is the best!

- she makes us the happiest parents in the world and we couldn't imagine life without her. She makes us laugh every day! We love you sweet girl!


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Professional pictures

Our neighbors daughter is a very talented photographer. We were so lucky she wanted to take pictures of Olivia for her portfolio! She is Jenn of Jenn Alberts photography in Spokane! They look so great!





I'm pretty sure Olivia was being a chicken in this one! She likes to act and sound out chickens.



She even took some pictures of my hair clips! They look so much better when she takes pictures of them than when I do- that is for sure!!

I love having so many pictures of my sweet girl and seeing how she has changed so quickly!! Thanks again Jenn we REALLY appreciate the work you put into these!

Easter weekend

I am so behind- I came on here to post some more pictures of the last couple weeks and realized today is Olivia's 19 month birthday! I am going to try very hard to get pictures of her later! I can't believe how quickly she is growing up. These are pictures from our Easter weekend. We took Olivia to her first easter egg hunt on Saturday where they divided everyone up into age groups, so she didn't have older kids running in front of her. :) She got the idea before we even put her on the ground- yelling "Egg!" She quickly knew to put them into her basket! After she got a couple though she was more interested in looking at all the other little kids. It was over in literallly seconds even though there were thousands of eggs on the ground. Thats ok though, she had fun!




Her very first egg:

Sitting with her basket of eggs:

Family picture after the hunt:

The next day on Easter at Dads house, Olivia is in her pretty Easter dress I bought last year!

Outfit change for playing and easter egg hunting (and also flying with daddy)

Another family picture. She didn't take off the ears surprisingly!

Checking out her special elmo egg.