Olivia's Stats!

Olivia had a Dr. appointment today, she now weighs in at 13 lbs. 3 ozs and is 25.25 inches long!

Slept through the Night!

Last night was the first time that Olivia slept through the night! She went down around 10 pm after drinking 8 ounces and woke up around 7 am!
I don't see this being a trend yet, but it was a big step for her :-)

Unfortunately this does not mean that Jeff and I slept through the night...with an old diabetic dog Jeff had to get up to tend to her around 3 am and then I was up around 5 am just to check on Olivia since she made a few noises.

Birthday Dinner

Happy Birthday Dad!

Tonight we had my family over for my dad's 60th birthday! We all had a good dinner, some wonderful carrot cake and brownies and then Chloe and Addi played dress up. Here is Princess Chloe and the birthday boy who was "resting" after a satisfying dinner!

My Giraffe

Chatterbox

Here is Livie chatting it up in the morning (Daddy's time). She loves to lay in her jungle play-area and talk to the animals hanging all around her. She is talking more and more lately...

Got Milk?

Olivia decided yesterday that she could feed herself, she has been grabbing at the bottle for a while now and yesterday took hold with both hands. Luckily she doesn't think she is big enough to do this every feeding :-) Don't want my babe to grow up too fast!

Rolling

Olivia has started to roll on her side, but only during the night, we have yet to see her do this while she is playing during the day. Here is a picture of her this morning before daddy got her out of bed.

New look

I'm trying to learn how to change the look of my blog. So far I'm not having much luck with the layout, it doesn't seem to do what I ask of it!!!

For such a "computer savy" person you would think this would be easier for me...UGH!

Oh well, Livie is starting to stir so I better go get her, enough of this for today.

Sunny Day

It was finally a nice warm sunny day! We went outside today and Olivia sat in her bouncy seat for a while and looked at the trees and the nice blue sky. Later we came in and she took a nice long nap on mommy's chest, here are some cute pictures of our growing girl! She will be 16 weeks tomorrow! She is chattering away and has started to notice more things around her, it is so fun to watch her discover new things.

Happy Easter

Olivia's first Easter has come and gone and she is sacked out in bed! She had a good day today, we went to Easter lunch at Uncle Joe's, watched Chloe & Addie hunt Easter eggs, sat outside in the nice sunshine and took a short cat nap. After that we headed to Pat Pat's house for a quick hello before it was time to come home and take a real nap! Next year she will be running around the yard with the other girls hunting eggs! So Addie & Chloe watch out :-)

Love being home...

I must say, I love staying home with Olivia. It is amazing to see how much she changes in just a week (and sometimes it seems overnight).

Clothes we got when she was born and we though were huge are now fitting. She is setting a schedule for herself of eating, playing and sleeping and is getting used to how the days go. If we could just now win the lottery so the three of us can continue to stay home and grow together as a family!
A girl can dream...

I've been wanting a growth chart for her room and since I couldn't find any I liked that were a reasonable price, I went to Hobby Lobby this week. I found a pretty inexpensive one and bought things to embellish it, I think it turned out pretty cute! I also did her hand and footprint this week and finally got those hung on the wall. Just a few more items I've ordered to go on the walls, some curtains (which I'll have to make because I can't find what I want) and her room should be good-to-go for a while :-)

Uncle Blake came to visit this weekend , he had not seen Livie since the day she was born! Livie showed him how she can talk, smile, kick and play! Hopefully it won't be so long before he is able to see her again.

Here are some other cute pictures of our growing girl.

(now if I could just get the pictures to line up with what I'm talking about my blog would be much better!)

Doggie boppy?

Savannah found out how comfortable Livie's boppy is!

Here are some random pictures from this morning. And a cute one from the other day when it was nice and warm and short sleeves actually felt good!

Big Night

Well it was a big night for us on Tuesday, Olivia slept in her own room for the first time. I think it was a bigger change for me more than her. She did wonderful, I rocked her and read her a book and then put her in her bed, she made some noise for a while, watched her mobile, then made one last coo and fell asleep. She is such a wiggler when she sleeps, we have a small co-sleeper in our room that she was sleeping in, but she started to turn herself sideways in the sleeper. She would have her head touching one of the sides and her feet over the "open" side by our bed. I figured it might be time to move her to a larger bed to see what she did and so far so good. So for the 3rd night in a row we have put her in her room and she is finally going to bed at a reasonable hour and is much calmer when I put her down. She is going down @ 10, waking up between 4 & 6, taking a bottle and then sleeping another 2.5 to 3 hours. Hopefully we can keep this trend going, although I miss her in our room.