Olivia is TWO!

Whew! What a busy month we had. February was packed with lots of fun. And LOTS of celebrating! It felt as if we celebrated Olivia's birthday almost the entire month (which we pretty much did).

We celebrated with our family in Oklahoma one weekend, the next we met Grandma Phyllis and Grandpa Mike at a hotel near the half way point to celebrate (including swimming, cupcakes, and presents), then the next weekend my Mom came to visit and we all went to the zoo.

Her actual birthday was last Monday, February 25. I like to do something fun for the girls on their birthday so we met Daddy at Chuck E Cheese for lunch. 

This is their favorite game. They win lots of tickets on this one.

And Olivia can pull the lever all by herself! She needs a little help reaching the big button though.

Since we were getting lots of tickets on this game we played it for a long time. Then we played a few more games and came back to this one.

And since we were celebrating a birthday we just had to have cake!

Olivia got a birthday sticker when we walked in the door too. She was pretty excited to wear Chuck E Cheese on her shirt.

They even had candles and a lighter. Olivia loves to blow out candles!

So we lit them over and over and over!

She had a great time! And she loves being TWO!!

Olivia's First Birthday

Saturday was Olivia's birthday so we had a little party.

 

Here is the birthday girl all dressed up for her party!

 

She loves to chew on the blowouts. She hasn't quite figured out how to blow in them but she thinks it is really funny whenever someone blows them at her.

It was a very small party. My parents, Papa Bill, Brandy, Andrew, and Brilyn all came to help us celebrate! But even though it was small we couldn't leave out the decorations.

 

 I wanted everything to be pink, girly, and lots of cupcakes. We made mini cupcakes and big cupcakes. Her smash cake was even a giant cupcake!

 

We opened presents first. Olivia would rather play with the presents than open them. But Grace LOVES to open presents so she helped.

 

Grace made sure to save the present she got for Olivia for the last. She worked so hard decorating it and I think she did an excellent job! She also picked it out all by herself.

Then it was time for cake!

 

She was so neat and dainty with her cake. She would just get a little icing on her finger and then lick it off.

Happy Birthday, Olivia Joy!!

11 Months

In less than 3 weeks my baby girl is turning ONE.

Can you believe it has almost been a year since she was born?

She was a teeny tiny little baby and now she is full of energy and into everything!

It is hard to get her to sit still for a picture :)

See those teeth? She is working on FOUR more.

 She loves to take her bow off and then she tries so hard to put it back on :)

And now she is standing in her crib like a big girl.

She is growing up way too fast!!

Crawling

Olivia has been crawling for a while but I finally got around to videoing her and now I am finally getting it uploaded to the blog. 

She is like a little puppy dog and will follow me around the house. She is getting fast!

Quite often she will stick a toy in her mouth and take off crawling. It is pretty funny to watch.

Olivia loves helium balloons. I guess I should say Grace AND Olivia love helium balloons. A week before Grace's birthday we got one at the party store while out shopping and they played with it for SEVEN weeks. Yes, it lasted 7 weeks before it quit floating. Not long ago, we went to Brilyn's birthday party and the girls got to take balloons home. Olivia carried this one with her for quite a while.

10 Months... a bit late

I am late posting these AGAIN. I can't believe how fast time is flying by. 

 She really loves to point at things. Especially if she sees something she wants to eat. When she is ready for another bite at dinner time she will start saying "uh, uh..." and point to her food. Her she was showing me that she wants to play with the camera!

 She found the iPod! I think we may have to move it away from her bed pretty soon :)

She is growing way too fast!! She has started crawling and following her sister. They love to play follow the leader (Grace is always the leader). She says "night, night" before going to bed. And she has turned into a Daddy's girl.

It won't be long before I will have to do an 11 month post. She was 10 months on Christmas day.

9 Month Sticker Pictures

It seems to take me forever to get the pictures from my camera to my computer. Olivia is 9 1/2 months old now and growing more every day! She is pretty small for her age and smaller than Grace was at this age... she weighs less than Grace did at 6 months :)

Last week both girls had their well baby/child appointment. Grace got her blood pressure taken for the very first time! The girls are SO different. Grace walked in and never stopped talking to the nurse. Olivia, on the other hand, wanted nothing to do with the nurse (or the doctor). She did not like being measured or the doctor looking in her ears. Grace loved both!

Olivia weighs 15 lb. 4 oz. and is 26 1/2 inches tall now. She hasn't grown much since her last appointment at 6 months but she sure has grown out of a lot of clothes. She can wear some 12 month things.

She is such a happy girl! We figured out she is pretty particular about how/where she sleeps. She only likes to sleep in her bed or the car and she only likes to sleep with a certain sheet on the bed. I took her sheet off to wash it and put a different one on and she did not sleep well at all for several days and I finally figured out it was the sheet. I put her normal sheet back on and she is back to sleeping great. And she loves to hug a blanket that her Grandma Phyllis made for her. She giggles when she knows she is about to get her blanket.

She just got her first little tooth. And she is going to visit the dentist tomorrow!

She loves her big sister and they play so well together (most of the time). Grace doesn't normally like for us to take her picture but lately she wants her picture taken if we are taking pictures of Olivia. She climbed in Olivia's crib so she could be in the pictures too!

My two little silly girls!!

Play Park

The park in my parents' neighborhood was recently built. We have been waiting for this park for a long time and we finally got to try it out! It was built just the right size for Grace! She LOVES going to the park. There is a pond down by the park that she likes to fish in. Now she can play on the park and go fishing at the same place.

Olivia even got to try out the slide. She is a little too small to keep up with her big sister though.

Can you believe how big Grace is getting? She will be 3 in less than a month!