Little Vacation

Last week Olivia and I headed down to St. George to visit T.J.'s family. It was so nice to see them and spend some quality time together. It was nice to get away and get some warm weather. Olivia loves everyone and always smiles but she really likes to play with T.J.'s sister Kenzie. She would always smile and laugh at her or want to be held by her.Thanks Kenzie for playing with her and watching her for me! I was lazy the whole time and didn't get any pictures of anyone except Olivia. So sorry this post is kind of boring. I couldn't resist taking pictures of her in her little hat.

Of course she has drool coming out of her mouth as always but she actually has a reason for it now, her first TOOTH started poking through on Wednesday and if you look really, really, really close you can see it on the bottom. Okay maybe not but if you were to magnify it you could:)

We drove back up on Sunday and the ride could have been a little easier and quieter but Olivia decided that she wanted to be persistent and cry/scream almost the whole way home. Well you know how it usually goes when one baby cries and so then the other has to chip in, that's pretty much how it was. Olivia was mostly the instigator of it all but Trae and her had their moments. Thanks Holly for putting up with us. We had fun driving down and back with both of you! Aren't these two such cuties? I know I'm biased.

Thanks Kim and Danny we had so much fun in sunny St. George. We really appreciate all you do for us and WE LOVE YOU ALL A TON!!!!

EaSter!

We had a great Easter and hope that everyone else did to. Olivia and I went my parent's house for the Easter egg hunt and decorating Easter cookies on Saturday and then on Sunday we all went up to my parent's again for yummy dinner. Of course Olivia had no idea what was going on but she sure did like the plastic Easter eggs, she held onto one most of Saturday and all of Sunday morning. We took some pictures over the weekend but I'm sad because Olivia didn't feel like getting her picture taken by herself in her pretty Easter dress. I'm going to have to put her in it and take some on a nice sunny day. ( I can't get the pictures to move down and I'm not rewriting everything at top so I'm sorry it's all weird).

Olivia had fun taking all the stuff out of her Easter basket

She liked her new book

Playing with the egg she found at grandma's house

Swimming

We took Olivia swimming for her first time this past week and she loved it!! Thanks Amos family for inviting us to go with you we had a ton of fun!Us before we got in the poolDaddies girlShe would not hold still all she wanted to do was crawl around and climb on the tubes. She crawled so much that she had rubbed her skin on her ankle raw. We went with the Amos' and Trae wasn't sure if he liked it at first but he soon found out how fun it was to splash.

I'm sorry Holly I don't have a picture of him smiling with water all over him from splashing.

8 is Great!

Olivia turned 8 months a few days ago and so here are a few things she has been up to.

1. She no longer looks at the camera, she comes after it

2. She is crawling everywhere!

3. She does the cutest wave with her wrist and says "Hi" sometimes "Hi da"

4. She is still smiling away

5. She went down the slide for the first time and laughed all the way down

6. She climbed up to me while I was on the ground and stood up last week

7. She is standing up to everything even if it is only a few inches from the ground. For instance if there is a book she will put her hands on it and then get on her toes kind of looks like a yoga move. Make any sense?

8. She loves kids!! She will follow them around the entire time they play. So Brooklyn loves to go up and down the stairs and so Olivia followed her over to them and before I knew it Brittany was pointing to the stairs and Olivia was crawling right up them. She went up all seven stairs by herself , of course she doesn't understand that she could fall so I stood behind her just in case.These pictures of her standing are from my phone so the quality isn't that great.
All she wants to do is move move and move some more.

A blog worth reading

The last few days I have been reading some blogs and several of them mentioned a blog about a little girl named Gracie. I don't know this family but I do know they have a wonderful and strong perspective on life. Their daughter was born with Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) and now has passed away recently. I read this blog and realized how strong they are for having such a difficult trial. The entire time I read it tears were pouring out. I asked myself would I be able to look at life with such a positive attitude? I hope I would, but I also know I would need my family and friends to help. Just take a look at this blog and read the wonderful stories of this loved little baby. www.thegledhillfamily.blogspot.com

New Sleeping Position

I put Olivia down for her nap and for some reason she wouldn't go to sleep. she just kept on crying for about 20 minutes and then finally silence. I heard her snoring and went in to see her and this is how I found her. Could she look anymore uncomfortable? I would have moved her but it would for sure have woken her up and believe me I needed her to sleep.

Here she comes

Well I know I just posted about Olivia but I had tell everyone that she is CRAWLING!!!! She has figured it out and now knows how to get to what she wants and she gets there pretty darn fast. Life just got a little more interesting. It is so exciting to watch your baby learn new things and to figure it out on their own. I would put a video of her crawling but I can't figure it out.