One Year Ago

A year ago today Olivia Jane was born! Can you believe a year has past already? It seems to be in a blur, but looking back on the past year, a lot has happened, and one thing was that Olivia grew up! {sad} Oh how I love her! She has the sweetest smile and cutest laugh! She wants to be just like her older sister, and in doing so, she has grown up a little faster than I would have liked her to.

 She said "dadda" before 6 months!

She started to crawl around 8 months.

She was taking her first steps at 9 months.

Walking by 10 months.

Running at 12 months!

She can say...

Yellow

Mama

Daddy

Papa

Hi

Ra-Ra

Jo Jo

Baby

and probably more that I'm forgetting... she talks all day long!!

She can sign...

Please

Thank you (working on getting it on her chin instead of her forehead)

More

All Done

Boy oh boy!! She has been a joy in our lives! Kenzie has been blessed with a sister who adores her {and looks out for her.... yelling at doctor's when Kenzie seems to be scared and all}. They are the best of friends and can play all day

Michael and I love Olivia so much and are sooo grateful to our Father in Heaven for sending down this sweet blessing in our lives...

{Stats coming later... her Dr's appointment isn't until Thursday!}

Olivia Dance!

Sorry!! I couldn't figure out how to turn the video. Any help with that would be great!

She's walking everywhere now! She's been taking steps here and there for about a month but now she's using it predominantly as her means to move! EVERYWHERE... So fast!

Arizona Museum for Youth

This week was Spring Break for most of Kenzie and Olivia's cousins, so we all got together and went to the Arizona Museum for Youth. Right now they are putting on "Once Upon a Time" exhibit! They have everything for a kids imagination from princess dress up, the 3 little pigs costumes as well as the Big Bad wolf, Alice in Wonderland tea party in a black light room so everything is crazy colors, to Wii Baseball. It was a lot of fun for all the kids. They have crafts throughout and stories to read.

They have a play area too on one side that we all stayed at for a time. They had blocks of all different shapes, sizes and colors that the kids could roll over, stack up and knock down. They had a kitchen for the kids that had everything you need to cook, as well as all the food too (fake of course). They had a stage where you could preform and sing! So many things! It exhausted the kids so I know it was a great day!

Park Adventures

Boy oh Boy! We've been having so much fun going to different parks around town. Sometimes we'll just go to the ones in our neighborhood, but I like to explore around and see what fun things we can find. We went to Freestone Park a few weeks ago. It was a lot of fun! They have a huge water area with a ton of ducks and one of Kenzie's favorite things to do is to try and catch some "birdie-birds". So off she went as soon as we go there to chase the ducks away! It was fun to watch.

They have a little kids playground that is mainly for toddlers. The kids enjoyed it. It was pretty much us there for most of the time, which was nice.

 I am absolutly in LOVE with this little girls faces she makes! She gets so frustrated at times for no reason!

 This is what big sisters do to try and get a perfect picture of both girls... sometimes though it doesn't work out!

 Kenzie started to climb up the slide... so guess who was trying to follow! Olivia!

 "Sure sister... I'll pour sand all over your head. No Problem!"

 Here she goes! See the ledge!?! Ya! She doesn't care!

 Topple over!

 We took a bike ride and had a picnic at the park last week!

 Top Ramin... yummm!!!

 Haha... again with the faces!!! I had to keep swatting her hands away from her mouth because she would find all sorts of rocks and attempt to put them in her mouth! So swat, swat, swat and this is what I get! Her hands fly up in the air and she gives me THE LOOK!

 This was at the San Tan Mall.

 This is so funny to me the difference when Olivia realizes there's a camera watching her... here she is bored out of her mind! Shoulders hunched over and all... Then...

 SMILE!!!! Bam!!! Such a ham!!! Waving and all!!