Look what Mommy found!

Hey y'all, it's been quite a while since we last updated this! It's been quite interesting raising Olivia and watching her grow up. Today she is 7 months old! She has no teeth yet, but she's been teething seriously for about a month now. At 6 months old she weighed 18 pounds. She is eating stage 2 foods now, and recently she has tried chicken and noodles dinner, sweet potatoes and corn, and apples and ham. She doesn't care too much for the turkey and turkey gravy, but i've heard a lot of kiddos don't like the plain meat! She's not crawling yet, but she's been "rocking and rolling" for about a week or so. She sticks her legs straight out and her butt goes up, it's so cute. And of course she pushes herself backward all over the room too. Today I sat her in her high chair to have a bottle because she didn't want to go to sleep. I was cooking, then I went into the living room. When I came back, this is what I found!

And since I'm here, I'll add a few more pics. Enjoy!

Happy Easter

Jelly Bean Prayer

Red is for the blood He gave,
Green is for the grass He made,
Yellow is for the sun so bright,
Orange is for the edge of night.
Black is for the sins that were made,
White is for the grace He gave,
Purple is for the hour of sorrow,
Pink is for the new tomorrow.

A bag full of Jelly beans,
Colorful and sweet,
Is a Prayer...is a promise...
Is an Easter treat!

...Author Unknown
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Easter Parade

Never saw you look quite so pretty before
Never saw you dressed quite so lovely what's more
I could hardly wait to keep our date this lovely Easter morning
And my heart beat fast as I came through the door
For In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it
You'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade
I'll be all in clover and when they look you over
I'll be the proudest fellow in the Easter parade

On the Avenue
Fifth Avenue
The photographers will snap us
And you'll find that you're In the rotogravure
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet
And of the girl I'm taking to the Easter parade

...Irving Berlin

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Olivia is 3 months old!

Hi all! Olivia is already 3 months old (plus a week) Already! She's been sick this past week, but she's getting better now. Because she was sick, we went to the clinic Monday, and they weighed her of course. She gained 1 and 1/2 pounds, and 2 inches in a month! She now weighs 13 lbs 11.5 oz, and is 24 inches long!!! She has been sleeping through the night since right after she turned 2 months old. She is now sleeping in her own room in her crib. She wakes sometimes at night if she kicks her blankie off or something, but as long as she's warm, she sleeps through until at least 7 am, sometimes til 8 or on a good morning, she will sleep until 9!!! That lets me sleep in and get some rest.

Below is a slide show that captures some of the moments from her 3rd month. Enjoy, and please leave us a message!

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Life in General

Hi all. Things are going good. Olivia was only sick and cranky for a day after she got her shots, then the next day she was back to normal! This past weekend we had to drive down to Louisiana, Blaine's grandmother passed away. She was in declining health for a couple years, then got really bad after New Year's and even had a stroke. After that she was in a nursing facility for about 3 weeks before she passed. She was 87, and she is at peace now, so we are happy that she is not suffering any more. Olivia did great with the car ride, one of us sat in the back with her starting a coupel hours into the ride, gave her a bottle, and then we pulled over on the side of the road to get her out and burp her. She only got fussy the last 20 mins or so! Then on the ride back she did great! We got her out a lot more when we would stop, and of course the pulling over on the side to burp!

When we were there, there were sooooo many people wanting to see her and hold her, the first night (after the trip down there) she got so cranky! She screamed and cried for over an hour and nothing would help. Finally she went to sleep, and was fine after that. She missed her afternoon nap, it was too warm in the house for a while for her liking, and there was a lot of stimulation. At the wake and funeral she did great, I kept her in her carrier so people wouldn't be as adamant about holding her. She got her naps in like she needed, and not as many people passed her around, although there was some! She also got her first "big girl" bath - she proceeded to throw up all over her Paw Paw, so I stripped her down and filled the bathtub with about an inch of water, and laid her down flat, waiting to see what happened - and she was fine! She loved it. Then after the bath she threw up all over me! We were wondering where she was putting all of it..... She slept thru the funeral service, I was happy that I didn't have to get up and walk out with her. She was the great-granddaughter, and she got lots of attention. When I get photos uploaded I will post them later.

She's 2 months old!!

Wow! Hard to believe she's two months old already! She got her first round of shots this past Thursday. She turned really red with her face all scrunched up and didn't breathe for a few seconds - the nurses just said "it's okay, she'll breathe in a minute" and boy did she ever! She started wailing! But she calmed down pretty soon after, she did so great! But when she got mad and didn't breathe for a second (preparing for the scream!) THAT's when mommy got teary eyed!!



she weighed in at 12 lbs 2 oz, and 22 inches long! We had to move her straps on the carseat up to the next notch, cause she's getting so big already!
In this picture she was 7 weeks old, she and I have photoshoots a lot in the mornings when she wakes up, she loves the camera!!

This one is from when she was 6 weeks old. Done in her nursery, I love how it turned out!

Hello

So Olivia is almost 2 months old, the time has flown by!! We have an appt this week to check her weight, and get her first shots :( Will update more later!

Olivia is 1 month old!

Hello all!

Wow, it's hard to believe that our baby girl is already 1 month old - where did the time go? She is getting so big already! Her umbilical cord stump fell off at exactly 4 weeks, so now she's officially "done" lol. She also had a check-up at 4 weeks, and she now weighs 10 lbs 2.5 oz. She had lost more weight at first than the doctors wanted and wasn't gaining like she should, but now they say she's doing great.

We took these pics last night, some of them were before she got to eat so she was understandably a bit fussy. You can see her finished belly button in some of them too. Oh, and in the last one, she is smiling! She has been smiling for over a week or so now, not laughing just yet, and not cooing or vocalizing, but she sure does smile when we play with her! she just loves it!