Happy Halloween

We had a wonderful Halloween. BJ was gone hunting so he missed out on the event but Olivia and I celebrated. We trick or treated at the grandparents and at some friends house. Olivia and I carved her first pumpkin. Here are a few pics from our day!

Halloween and 6month pics

We have been busy as usual. I realize why people say time flies with kids. Olivia is growing so fast. She amazes us each day with new talents like picking up Cheerios. lol These are her 6 month pictures. I loved the flower costume for Halloween. She isn't sure about the head piece but once we gave her pumpkins to play with she was really happy. We are going to trick or treat at families house and carve a pumpkin so I will post those in a couple days.

Olivia's 6 month Bday!!!

I can hardly believe that she is 6 months! She seems so big to me and then here comes a stanger, "oh she is so little she's just tiny." We have the tradition of celebrating our Happy 1/2 Birthday! That's correct 6 months it is. It is a great excuse for eating ice cream on a Tuesday night and getting a special present like new p.j.s, undies, or cute socks. Miss Olivia got to celebrate with a pumpkin cookie and a new p.j.s. She looks a little confused in these pics...why has mom given me a pile of sugar usually she only gives me peas and carrots?

Olivia has learned lots of things at her mature age of 6 months:

-Never eat Cheerios...throw them across the room.

-When given cup...dump it on the tray or let the milk run over the top of her head and rub in it like lotion.

-Mashed potatoes are poisen but mixed vegetables are scrumptious.

-Why crawl when she can cry until Dad moves her forward the 2 inches she needs to move to get the toy.

-Ice cream is delicious.

-If mom's hair is close twirl slobbered fingers into it and pull as hard as she can and then eat it.

-Sitting up is tons of fun and even better if she can eat a remote control.

-Falling off the bed hurts her head.

Things I have learned:

-Playtex Ventair bottles suck! The numbers wear off the sides and they leak.

-When Carter's clothes say 6 months it means your child will wear it until they are 6 months.

-Need to cut my hair short.

-Should not let baby sleep on bed even if you surround them by pillows.

-Baby Einstein movies are great...I would never have makeup on if it weren't for them.

-I understand why mom's with babies look like crap...I get 5 hrs of broken up sleep a night (if I'm lucky), I never have time to fix my hair and when I do she pulls it and fluffs with slobber until it doesn't look like I fixed it, I attempt to wear nice clothes and then find myself wiping small amounts of vomit off my shoulder and carrots that were spit at me during feedings.

There are many lessons learned but those are the ones that come to mind first.

A little Catch up

She found her feet! Camping trip at Moose Creek Resevoir

This is her silly face!!

Hmmm? Who does she look like?

Full of smiles!!

I have had no time to write!!! This summer has been the busiest we've had, which I really didn't think was possible. You would think with the addition of Olivia we would slow down but nope we drag her along everywhere! We are teaching her lessons of traveling and adapting to new places. Just a little catch up....

July:

3rd- Went back to work after 12 weeks of maternity leave...so glad I took the time off.

10th-19th Zeke came for a 10 day visit...Camping, bowling, and bb camp.

24th-26th Annual Ranch Party with the Bezdicek Family...TONS of fun!

27th-4th Flew to Cleveland OH to visit the Mesaros Family...we went to Cedar Point, fishing, Amish Country, Indians Baseball game, Zoo.

August:

14th-16th Went to McCall for a mini vacation and Olivia went on her FIRST trip without mom and dad to Twin Falls.

20th-23rd Went to Butte, Montana with Jennifer and Kevin.

That is the shortened version of many adventures. Somewhere in there we went to work and made time to to sleep.

Miss Olivia is doing great. She has grown out of her fussing and has become such a happy little baby! We are having so much fun with her. She has learned to sit up and giggle. We started solid foods which she is never to sure about. A few days ago I layed her down to play on her belly and didn't realize her toy was out of her reach. She had the funniest deep concentration look and then used her arms and scooted to the toy. Although I was ecstatic to see her learn I realized this was just the beginning of her destruction.

Olivia's 3 Months Pics

For some dumb reason it keeps turning some of the pics sideways no matter how many times I try.....

An update

Last week we had Olivia's dr appt. She has become quite the chunky monkey! I was excited to see what she would weigh. Although we had a 4oz bottle before putting her on the scale she weighed in at 13lbs. I really thought she would weigh more than that. With her only being a week a way from being 3 months she is supposed to have doubled her weight (14 lbs 10 oz). I am not too concerned given her volumtious shape but it suprised me. Everything was good at the dr otherwise. She seemed to be growing appropriately and doing all the developmental things for her age.

I also went back to the dr (different one) to discuss the lack of weight loss and nausea. He thinks it is my blood sugar spiking and falling. He re-started me on the metformin.

I know there will be some disgust with this news but Olivia GOT HER EARS PIERCED! It looks adorable!!! I love it. She did great with it too. When they pierced them she cried and had a tear or two but by the time I went up to pay she was asleep. I am hoping they don't get infected and we have to take them out.

Tests, Bears, and Blessings ohhh my!

Negative Test...I took a prego test and it was negative. I think I am in the clear. The nausea seems to have improved for the most part. Still comes on in the evenings and I can't figure out what is causing it. I am relieved that I am not pregnant. Obviously I would have accepted the news but I really need more time! Olivia can be a handful. It would have been a nightmare to do the early prego exhaustion and listen to screaming. She is getting much better but then there are days that we sit in the recliner for hours because she just cries if I try to set her down. I must report the BEST $20 ever spent.......The WOMB BEAR. I had seen it at Babies R Us but I never thought it would be necessary. One of our challenges is that Olivia doesn't sleep longer than 30 min at a time. I think most of her fussiness is that she gets so tired. The Womb Bear is a soft cuddly bear that has a swooshing heartbeat noise. It has a 40 min timer. She is mesmorized by the sound. It over takes her!!! Now I swaddle her and put the bear next to her. I maybe rock her for 5 min and she is asleep. Not only does she fall asleep fast but stays asleep for 2 hrs. I have to sneak in and restart the bear but it is great. She will fuss at about 30 min but as long as the bear is on she goes immediately back to sleep. I don't care if she starts hating it tomorrow, the fact that she has slept for the last five days is great! Her mood is so much better when she gets the long naps.

On Sunday we had her Blessing. All the family came and we were able to take pictures. Afterwards we had a BBQ at the house. I don't have the pictures from the church yet because they are on other people's cameras but here are a few from the BBQ. Olivia had her new red party dress which looked so cute!!!! There was ping pong tournament that lasted for hours.....