Monday, May 16, 2011

Happy Easter!!

Happy Easter! We had such a great Easter this year spending time with family. In light of all of the terrible tornados that have hit our area, it has really made me appreciate more the simple things in life, especially family. The day before Easter, we decided to let Olivia attempt to dye her first Easter eggs! Her favorite part was getting to color on the eggs with a magic crayon and putting stickers all over them :) We made lots of pretty eggs and even a few for our favorite people in the world, Wisa, Grumps, B, and Big John :)


After dying eggs we headed to the Millington's for an early Easter dinner. Olivia had so much fun hunting for eggs with her cousins Kaley and Karley. Kaley hid plenty of eggs for the girls to look for :)

Easter sunday we headed to my parents for a family lunch.
Olivia had a good time showing off and entertaining everyone with her dance moves.

Checking out her new Elmo Easter basket that she loves!

Grumps and Wisa with their newest grandbaby :)


Praise our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who died on the cross for our sins. Hallelujah and Glory to his name for he rose from the dead to bring us eternal life!

My, How Time Flies!


Olivia Love is already 22 months old and I just cannot believe it. Having Anna Kayt has helped me to constantly realize how quickly time goes by and how she is not going to be my little 1 year old forever. As crazy as times have been, I am trying to take in every moment that I get to spend with these two precious girls. After all of the tornado tragedy that has occured so close to home this past week, I keep reminding myself how truly blessed that we are.
I wanted to post a few things about what all Olivia is doing these days so that I can look back one day laugh :) . Each day she is talking more and more and really turning into her own little person. She loves to talk, talk, talk in the morning! I love going to get her up in the mornings because she usually always has something funny to tell me and this can consist of her showing me her socks to telling me that she would like a pink hair bow in her hair, to naming everyone in our house. She loves to laugh and play in her crib in the mornings but the second that she stands up she is ready to get Out! :) She loves to repeat everything that is said, no matter what it is!! Over the past 2 weeks she has really started to attempt to say sentences which has amazed me! She is almost counting to 10 but likes to leave out 1 and 9? Not really sure why but I will have to say that her favorite number has to be the numer 2! She says it all the times and always wants to of everything, whether its candy, lovies, or sippy cups to play with :) She loves to tell me that she loves people "this much" while she holds her hands out. She calls Anna Kayt "sissy" and loves to kiss her on the head. I have not sensed any jealousy yet, she just loves her little sister. I think she is ready for sissy to be able to play with her!
Her favorite song has to be the ABC's because she will jut walk around the house singing it. She also loves Jesus Loves Me and when I sang it to her yesterday she started doing the sign language for Jesus :) Apparently they have been working on this at school :) Her favorite toys still have to be her Elmo toys. She loves silly bands, coloring in her elmo book, Wiggles, and her puppy dvd (Air Buddies). She could go to the park everyday and loves going to mothers day out. This little girl is just growing up so fast and is absolutely full of personality! She makes me laugh all day long with the things that she repeats and says. Can't believe my baby is about to be 2 years old!!
Mommy and Daddy love you 'this much' Livi Love!

4 Weeks Old

This sweet baby is a big 4 weeks old! It makes me want to cry to see that she is already getting so big so quickly. I feel like my days sometimes go by so slowly with 2 children but my weeks and years fly by!! I just don't know where the time goes? Anna Kayt has been such a sweet and good baby these past few weeks (minus her fussy time at night from 6-9.... not sure why it seems that so many babies go through this??) It seems like she has been a part of our lives for so much longer than 4 short weeks! She has been such a great sleeper from night one.... praise Jesus! He knew that I needed a good sleeper :) She has always had her days and nights straight which has made it soo much easier. At night we are feeding her around 10:00 and she is sleeping until about 4 or 4:30 and then goes back to sleep until about 8 or 9 in the morning!! Yay!!! She started doing this at about 4 1/2 weeks. Takes about 30 minutes to feed her and then she goes right back down. She is taking about 4 naps a day and thankfully I can just swaddle her and lay her in her crib and she goes right to sleep! I have been doing Babywise with her and I would recommend it to anyone!! She is eating about every 3 - 4 hours and eats about 3 -4 ounces each time.
I took Anna Kayt to her one month appt. today and she has definitely grown!! She is now 9lbs 12oz (57th percentile) and is 21 3/4 inches long (79th percentile) ! I cannot believe that she has gained 3 pounds in 4 weeks!! We got a happy and healthy report for her and she did great! Only one shot today so it was not too bad :( Olivia on the other hand enjoyed getting to go to the doctor and not having the doctor see her :) She sat in the chair the whole time with a sucker and had a good ole time!
Life with two has definitely been challenging and tiring at times but its the little moments that make it all worth while :) Happy One Month Anna Kayt!!! We love you!

Park Park Park

This is what I hear all day if I even mention the park to Olivia! She loves it and I think could stay there all day! Her favorite part has to be the swing and secondly the slides! This was our first trip to the park with both girls and I think that they both had fun :) Anna Kayt relaxed in her car seat while Olivia burned a lot of energy running around :)
On our way!

This is how high you get to swing when daddy pushes you :)
As you can tell, Anna Kayt had a blast!! haha