Our Happy Girl

Our cutie pie is such a happy girl! She is such a fun baby to watch and play with, such joy from such a little person!

This week Olivia started to finally take a morning nap in her bed. This is something we've tried before but never seemed to work out. Now she has her morning "snack" and goes down for a nap. She did fuss a bit this morning but never went over the edge and eventually fell asleep on her own!

Thursday Jeff and I actually did go out to dinner by our selves, Grandma & Papa watched Olivia and we managed to stay out for 2 whole hours before we headed back! It was a beautiful evening so we went to an Italian restaurant downtown and sat outside, then we and got some ice cream and went on a little drive.

Saturday Olivia and I went to watch Addi play soccer, it was another great day, sunny, warm and a nice breeze. Today it is finally raining and a bit cooler so we'll probably run all our errands later this afternoon.

Here are some of the cute pictures of our babe from this week. Jeff got one of his favorite hats to "fit" her. She loves to take his hat off his head and play with it. She is also playing with her tongue some more, she is too funny to watch!

What does this taste like?

Yesterday Olivia was too funny, she kept playing with her tongue; sticking it out, licking things and blowing raspberrys. Last night before she went to bed she leaned into Jeff's cheek, stuck out her tongue and licked him, it was too funny!

Here she is "tasting" one of her toys, at least it's a strawberry!

September already :-)

It's been a quick two weeks since my last post. Since that time Olivia is starting to sit up for a longer period on her own, although her favorite thing is still to be on the ground rolling around. She does enjoy her jump-a-roo and exersaucer and is starting to stand in the exersaucer, she looks too cute! Her third tooth has finally come in all the way and she is working on number 4! Soon she will have all of her front teeth! She is babbling more and more each day, and dada is still her favorite word. She actually called out to Jeff the other day when he left the room :-)

Last weekend we had a nice labor day cookout with Flip and Jane and this past weekend we had a birthday party for my mom's birthday. Our 13th wedding anniversary is tomorrow and we may actually venture out to dinner by ourselves! This would only be the 2nd time since Livie was born that we go out without her.

Here are some cute pictures of our growing girl from the last two weeks.

Perfect Day for a Picnic

Today is a gorgeous late summer day which feels more like early fall. Nice and sunny, nice breeze and temps in the high 60's. Jeff, Olivia and I decided it was a great day for a picnic! We have a beautiful, large park and open space about 5 minutes away, so we took some sandwiches, and other goodies and off we went!

Here are pictures of our perfect picnic!

8...3...!

Those are the milestone numbers for Olivia this week...8 months old and 3 teeth! Jeff and I decided our jack-o-lantern this year will have this look!

It's a cool, cool summer...

Earlier this week it was in the 90's and the last two days the high barely reached 72!

Earlier today Jeff & I put Livie in her exersaucer so we could do some MUCH needed weeding of our neglected flower beds (been a little too busy for weeding)!


Cutie pie!
























Fun Before Bedtime!

































She loves to watch Savannah eat and drink. If Savannah gets close enough she reaches out to "pet" her. Savannah takes it all in stride :-)

What a good old dog we have.
And Olivia LOVES her!

Dada

We have been working on this for awhile, and she has said it before. This is the first time we have it on tape. It is so funny how she is such a chatterbox some days and very mellow others. So, here it is:

Birthday Suit

Olivia got her bath this evening and had some "naked baby" time :) She rolled around on her blanket and wrapped herself in her soft blankie.

Gotta love her cute little tushie!

Lounging in the Pool!

Livie actually enjoyed her time in the water today, no tears! Yeah, she might start liking water again.

Our Beautiful Girl

We had some pictures taken while we were in North Carolina in mid June. Here are a few of them.

Hibiscus Hat