Tradition

Tradition is something we want to start...this means taking things our families did growing up and making them our own. This year over Thanksgiving break, Blake took some time off as his dad came to visit, we cut down our Christmas tree from our yard, and we spent the day of thanks with my side-having a dual day of Thanksmas. Olivia exchanged gifts with Eddie and Aunt Jenny gave her some goodies too. She loved it all. It is always a treat spending time with family. It is very important to us that Liv enjoy spending time with family. 

She was a great supervisor!

We have also found out that she contiues to enjoy being outside, she loves playing in the snow! It actually is the biggest reason of her throwing a fit-when the time comes that she has to come in. It's a wonderful workout for us, but we get tired out walking up the hill and dragging her up on the sled. It's definitely worth it when she says, "weee," all the way down and asks, "more please."

Stay tuned....this little one has some snow adventures ahead!

Trick or Treat

Halloween is even more fun this year as Olivia is starting to enjoy dressing up and has learned that sweets are tasty. Her first piece of candy was a tootsie roll she got at trick or treating at Hy-Vee. Unfortunately I couldn't find the ladybug outfit that I bought last year for her to wear, but luckily we were able to use a cowgirl outfit from her cousin Avery.

Blake and Olivia took a trip to Maryland for his uncle's funeral. She also attended her first funeral, at Arlington Cementary. She also got to walk around the neighborhood Blake grew up in to trick or treat. Blake said she was very polite, but seemed a little confused with the whole concept. They had a great trip seeing Blake's side of the family and look forward to seeing them as they visit for the holidays.

She is starting to talk so much! I love her questions of "what is that?" or "where it go?" She is also saying some names of her friends at daycare and loves to say avey and poppa. Her little voice is so sweet. One of her phrases she is working on is "I love you" and we are so excited to hear that! As she learns more words she also pretends to read us books and initiates conversations-we aren't quite sure what she is always telling us, but we just go along with it.

She definitely is getting curious and is very opinionated. This means we have had some poo situations, as she doesn't like to have it on any longer than she can. Liv likes to have choices-in her clothes, her food, books to read, what we play, and where we sit. She also continues to teeth, which isn't easy on her.

Stay tuned, our little girl definitely has personality and sass!