Some Pictures

I finally moved the pictures from my phone to my computer. I need to start doing this more often. I thought while I have a ton of time to kill I would post some of the more recent ones.

I had bought Grace some new summer clothes but I didn't do so well with the size. At Children's Place I had to take back all of the tops since she is wearing a 3T! (I had bought 24 months) Well, at Old Navy I didn't do so well with the shorts. I knew her 18-24 month jeans from Old Navy were too small so I bought the next size up (2T) for her summer shorts. They were too big. I guess her jeans were just too short but still fit around the waist. So a week or so ago I took the girls to the mall for Chick-fil-a and a shopping trip. While we were in Sears Grace figured out how to climb out of the stroller. She then decided it was a great time and a great place to sing and dance. I wish I would have thought to take a video! Then we headed to Old Navy. Since she was already out of the stroller she wanted to walk. When we went in she had a nice visit with the Old Navy people.

This girl is her friend :-)

And of course she had to pet the puppy dog!

Before our trip to the mall we stopped at Wal-Mart. Grace had some Easter egg money and picked out a little golf set. The next morning she got to try it out in our front yard. I think she is a true baseball fan because she took a golf club and swung it like a baseball bat trying to hit the ball. Of course she had to wear all of her Cardinals gear!

We spent quite a bit of time at my parents house and they have lots of toys for the girls. Olivia had so much fun on the little play mat that she wore herself out!

Look how big my baby girl is getting!

Aunt Brandy watched the girls for a bit and she fixed Grace's hair. Isn't she so cute with her pony tail?

One evening we needed a couple of things from the store so I took the girls with me and we found a cart just Grace's size.

Grace spent a few days with my parents to make things a little easier on us while I am recovering (she is home now... she decided last night that she missed us!) Yesterday they went to Tiger Safari and my Mom sent me a picture before they left. Grace had pigtails with new bows to match her new shirt. She is such a beautiful little girl!

And last week I met my friend Chelsea and her baby Elly at the mall. Olivia picked out some toys for her car seat (the black and red thing in the top corner)

Mothers Day Weekend

We had a pretty good Mothers Day weekend. Dustin's oldest sister graduated from law school so he headed to Missouri to be at the graduation and spend a bit of time with his family. The girls and I spent the weekend with my parents. Friday was filled with doctor appointments. Grace had been running a fever and complaining that her hear hurt so I wanted to get that checked out before the weekend. Turns out there wasn't an infection but it was the start of a cold (which now I think everyone in the house besides me has caught)... we were hoping it was just pressure from a molar but now I think it is safe to say it is not just teething.

Saturday was pool building day! While we didn't do near the amount of work that everyone else did we all got to put a little help in. I got to job of adding accent pieces! Why they have those pieces is still a mystery to me. Grace helped bring all the little pieces to me so I could snap them on the pool. We also go to hold the walls up for a little while when the wind picked up. I think Grace had the most fun job though.

She got to walk around in the pool while it filled with water!

And Olivia got to supervise!

Sunday morning we got ready for church. We all had corsages to wear in honor of Mothers day!

Here is Olivia with hers :-)

After church we headed to my parents for lunch.
When we got there the pool was full of water! Grace loved spending some time playing in it. I think she is going to be spending a lot of time in the water this summer.

Easter Sunday and Olivia's Dedication

Easter was a busy day for us. We started by getting up early (I think Grace was up over an hour earlier than normal) and checking out the girls' Easter baskets.

The Easter bunny did a good job!

After Grace had time to check out everything in her basket she could hardly wait for Olivia to wake up and check out all of the goodies the Easter bunny brought. I think Grace eventually woke Olivia up during one of her many attempts to go check to see if she was still sleeping.

Grace showed Olivia all of her new stuff!

My parents stopped by to help get lunch in the crock pot and Dustin, Olivia, and I headed off to church. Mom and Dad brought Grace later. Since it was Easter Sunday and both services were combined we knew that seating could be hard to come by. We had my entire family plus my grandpa and great grandma and Dustin's aunt and grandma coming for Olivia's dedication.

Olivia wore the dress that my Grandma bought for Grace's dedication. Grace never wore the dress because she cried from the moment we put it on her until we took it off 5 min. later. Olivia didn't seem to mind a bit. Our church does baby dedications on Easter Sunday every year. They gave Olivia her very first Bible! I already had her name imprinted on it :-)

After church we headed back to our house for lunch. We were able to take a 5 generation picture with Olivia. We took one with Grace too even though we have one from when she was 3 months old. I don't have any pictures of Grace in her pretty white dress or the 5 generation pictures because my Mom took those. We also let Grace hunt eggs in the house since it was raining outside (again, I didn't get pictures). She is a good little egg hunter!

Two Months

Olivia is 2 months old!

She gave me lots of smiles for her 2 month pictures.

She is 11 lbs. 5 oz. and 22 inches.
She has been sleeping GREAT.

Most nights she sleeps about 8 hours, eats, then goes back to sleep for about 4 more hours.

She has a favorite toy - the little bunny rattle we bought in Tokyo while trying to spend the little Yen we had left.
She LOVES to watch her big sister. And she loves it when Grace sings to her.
If she cries (which is very rarely) Grace will sing Jesus Loves Me or Jesus Loves the Little Children. She almost always stops and coos :-)
Grace also loves to hold and rock her baby sister.

She still hasn't slept in her crib at night yet but she has taken a few naps in there.
She loves to be wrapped up in her swaddle blanket.
She also loves to hold onto the blanket that Grandma Phyllis crocheted for her. For her afternoon nap I will often lay her down with her blanket and she will wrap her fingers through it and fall asleep. She is so cute like that!

She is getting to be so alert. She coos and talks and will smile back at us.
She is definitely a Mommy's Girl!!!

Just look at that adorable smile :-)
She is such a sweet baby!

We packed up all of her newborn clothes. She can still fit into some 0-3 month things (although she is getting a little too long for the sleepers). She mainly wears 3 months and even a few 3-6 months things. She is growing up too fast!

Looks like Spring!

We have been having some nice spring weather lately. We decided that flowers would make a nice addition to our flower bed in front of our house so Dustin and Grace got to work planting while I did a bit of pruning on some of our existing shrubs. Olivia even got in on some action - she watched from her bouncy seat!

And with new flowers, we need to water often. This is one of Grace's favorite jobs!

We have plans to build our vegetable garden this weekend!

The Circus Came to Town!

A couple of weeks ago the circus came to our little town. We decided to take the girls and invited their Grandma and Grandpa (they came with us to the zoo too) to come too!

I didn't get but a couple pictures because the spotlights were pretty bright and I thought the pictures I did take looked horrible on the back of my camera. I just put the camera away but when I looked on the computer I was surprised they even came out this good.

There were lions and tigers. One of the tigers got in trouble for peeing on the stand it was sitting on. Grace likes to tell people about that because it was kind of funny.

Her favorite part was the juggler. She still talks about the guy who juggled. She will get her arms moving and all excited say "the guy juggled." She will even tell you everything the guy juggled - hats, rings, balls. She also really liked the clown. "He jumped. And he bumped his head. That is really funny." I guess the other parts just weren't as exciting because she never seems to mention them.

Oh, and what is a circus without cotton candy and a snow cone?
And Grace decided on the big bag of cotton candy so she could share!

OKC Zoo

I have a bit of catch-up to do. We have been busy enjoying the lovely weather and I just got around to getting the pictures off my camera (more than a weeks worth!). So hopefully I will get some more posts up soon!

This last Saturday we enjoyed a day at the OKC Zoo. We had been wanting to take Grace for quite some time now but just finally made time for it. She had a great time even though this wasn't the best zoo we have been to (it is hard to beat a day at the Sydney zoo!).

First we stopped by the children's zoo.
They had a barnyard where Grace got to pet the animals and she even fed a goat!

Then we went to see the birds.
Grace had a great time feeding them the nectar!

We walked around and saw lots of animals.
Grace was really looking forward to seeing the giraffes. There were several giraffes and even a baby! I think she was pretty happy.

We saw lots of other animals but I didn't get any pictures. We watched the zoo keeper feed the cheetahs, saw a couple of elephants, and flamingos, and we even saw a monkey swinging from a rope! Grace had a great time and Olivia pretty much slept through everything. After being out in the heat for so long we decided to make a stop at Cold Stone on the way home. Delicious!