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I have been such a bad blogger because I have been so busy between chasing Olivia, working and now making hair clips and other things for my new etsy shop! Anyway we are all doing great over here- John is busy building a fence in the back yard, Olivia is running around talking more and more every day, and I am busy chasing her and taking her to play groups and tumbling class (as well as working). Olivia says tons of words now, and just today started saying "Elsie" and "off". I also felt inside her mouth and she is getting one of her back teeth! That will put her at 9 teeth, She has 4 upper front and 4 lower front right now. Here she is on the ferry heading to Vashon. Picture with daddy. Family picture!

Group photo with the kids on our way to the beach. Wussy Julie stayed inside the house.

Walking on the rocky beach with daddy.

Playing inside with Madeline. They love each other so much and Olivia even says Madeline (in her own way, but it is understandable!)

Being a ballerina practicing with the potty.

Stops briefly to stare up at the tv (elmo was on of course)

picture of us

she absolutely loves the ipad!

staring off today

Still kind of dazed with happy Elsie.

Giving Elsie a hug. She was so sweet and gentle for the most part with Elsie all day! She kept saying her name over and over and even fed her puffs (but ate more herself of course)

running through the park

the girls. 10 months apart.

Olivia learned TODAY how to climb up into the equipment and slide down the slide by herself! Scary but exciting also. She didn't know how to turn around so she went down head first. She even got off without falling at all.

That's all the photos for now, but I will try to add some more from previous weeks another day. Olivia is so much fun but active as ever! Like I said before, she is in tumbling and seems to REALLY like it! She ran and laughed pretty much the entire 30 minutes. She learned how to log roll and can do it by herself now! She loves the somersault mat and the little high bar. Fun times!

Playground

We walked to the playground this afternoon and Olivia had so much fun! She is such a big girl pushing herself down the slide and playing in the bark. She was a little sad to leave but I have a feeling we will be taking her many, MANY more times to come.








Love this one. Looking so excited at daddy.

















Loved the bark!








And throwing as much as she could on the slide!








See you another day park!

yesterday

Some photos from yesterday. Olivia's hair is getting so curly! It is wet with water in a few of the pictures. Otherwise it is a puffy mess! She is doomed to have my hair... Anyway in the afternoon Brenna came over to play and we had a lot of fun!

Running all over the house now getting into things... she prefers to walk/run now. Here she is below trying to figure out the baby gate. We need to make sure it is latched,not just shut at all times because she knows how to open it if not!

My happy girl. She was hysterically laughing when I pretended to sneeze for her. She loves it.

Below she is taking the pacifier that Brenna is handing her. They were working on their sharing skills. :)

a bunch from today

Here are a ton I took today of Olivia trying on her birthday skirt. She is SO busy these days- as you can tell. I can't even begin to describe how hard it is to get a picture of her!

"cleaning" her closet.

"talking"


She learned how to climb up and off of this bench all by herself!

Trying to climb off the chair

sat still for 1/2 a second.

Gotta go!

What a pretty skirt!

I really have to go.


That is my busy happy girl!