Thursday, December 27, 2007
Christmas Morning for Baby Olivia
thing.
We all enjoyed each others company and shared Christmas Dinner at our house, a tradition we hope to continue for years to come.
Brad and Leigh put Olivia down for the night at 7pm, Christmas 2007 flew by, but next year will be even better, she will be walking around and hopefully will be able to thank everyone for their presents, but it probably won't be until the following year that she will know what is going on, its so exciting.
Brad has taken the rest of the year off to spend time with his family before Leigh heads back to work on January 7th, so they are going to spend as much time together as possible, but of course time away from the office for Brad also means time on the trails. We had planned on going to visit Greg, Angie and Ford Butner in Wilmington for a few days, but Greg has been sick with a Staph Infection (super contagious) so we are no longer going. New Years Eve will be spent at Brian and Molly's house for a little get together, and hopefully a quiet dinner with April, Addison and Megs (before she leaves on Jan 1st), and Olivia will be having a sleep over with YaYa and GaGa - exciting.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Olivia's Pictures Are In....
We wanted to share with all of you Olivia's Professional 3.5 Month Pictures, they put all of the images on a disk and set the pictures to the song In My Daughter's Eyes, and of course Leigh was crying her eyes out, Brad even got a little teary eyed (he might not admit it though).
She will go back to Heather House again at 6-7 Months, once she is really sitting up well on her own and have another session, we can't wait to see how they come out.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Jolly Ol' Saint Nick...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Time to Party...tacky style
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Baby Santa...
Friday Night Olivia had quality time at home with Brad while Leigh went to celebrate Megs engagement with April and Megs. Saturday Leigh and Olivia spent the afternoon drinking wine (Leigh, not Olivia) with Lindsay, one of Leigh's good friends from college who just recently bought a new house with her husband Karl, its gorgeous and Leigh had a fabulous time catching up with Lindsay while Olivia napped on Lindsay's couch, what a good baby girl. Today was spent watching the sad Redskins game and then we went to dinner at YaYa and GaGa Worden's house, its so nice having them close for the winter months. You can tell by the photo to the left, Olivia is now rolling over more often, she still isn't consistent, but she is working on it.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Liv's First Thanksgiving
It was a bitter sweet Thanksgiving, the first with Sweet Olivia but the first without Cousin Ricky, we all remembered him throughout the day and prayed for his family as they enter the first Holiday season without him.
Olivia was able to spend the day with all three of her Great Grandmother's (Martin, Turner and Hoskin), pictured above is GG Martin and GG Hoskin. Olivia calls them "GiGi Martin, GiGi Hoskin, etc.
Olivia was finally feeling more like herself after a horrible reaction to her shots. She had her 4 month shots on Monday and was finally starting to smile again on Thursday, Leigh was VERY worried about her and talked to the Advise Nurse at Chippenham Pediatrics numerous times during the week, 102 fever freaked Leigh out and the fact that her usually happy baby was no longer a happy baby scared her to death, Leigh lost more sleep worry about Olivia than she did in the newborn days. After all the horror stories Leigh had read about what shots can do to babies she is more than relieved to have her darling little girl back. We have decided though that Olivia will be taking her 6 month shots in several doses, not all at once, the reaction just isn't worth it.
Leigh spent the weekend decorating for Christmas, the tree is up, the Christmas Village is up and the stockings are hung by the TV with care. Our goal for the rest of the weekend is to take our Christmas Card pictures so we can get them printed in the next week or so. Olivia has her formal Christmas pictures taken tomorrow, but due to a few MAJOR scratches on her face, they may be postponed. We hope everyone had a wonderful, healthy, happy Thanksgiving.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Survey says....
YaYa and GaGa Worden arrive today for the winter, everyone is very excited about their "new home". Olivia bought them flowers and a "Turkey" cake to welcome them to their new home, she even displayed them in the kitchen for them to see as soon as they walked in the house - what a thoughtful little girl she is.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Happy 30th Birthday Daddy
Olivia is ALMOST 4 months old, the big day is on Sunday, we can't believe 4 months have already come and gone - where does the time go? Speaking of time, Brad hit the big 3-0 on Thursday, we celebrated by going to lunch with ladies from his office during the day and then joined our friends Brian, Molly, Insley and Megs for dinner at Chammps, where Brad enjoyed $2.00 Highballs - what a cheap date he was.
Olivia has hit a mini-milestone - she now rolls over from her stomach to her back, but only in one direction and of course just like Riley never on command. Brad has yet to catch her in the act, Leigh is hoping to catch it on camera one of these days.
Brad's Parents arrive this afternoon for a weekend of celebration and quality time with Olivia. Brad doesn't know it yet, but Leigh has planned a surprise for him this weekend and don't worry, there is no risk of this post ruining it since he probably doesn't even know the blog's URL. Check back to get an update about the surprise...
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Wahooooooo....
Brad's Parents are coming for the weekend to celebrate his 30th Birthday, we are looking forward to their visit.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Liv the Lobster
Halloween 2007 - Olivia is 3.5 months old so of course Leigh and Brad picked out her costume, they went with a Lobster and they can officially say - no regrets, she was the cutest Lobster they had ever seen.
We got her dressed around 4pm, she had a photo session outside with friends Zack Koehler and Kaylee Rogers, but after about an hour her outfit was soaked with drool and she quickly changed into her "Boo" Sleep Sack.
Zack was an adorable little Elephant and Kaylee was a cute little Ladybug, costumes have really come a long way since we were "young ones". We are already planning Olivia's outfit for Halloween 2008, we figure at almost 3, which will be Halloween 2009 she will get to pick her own costume, but next year we will still have control - there are so many options.
YaYa Worden arrived this afternoon, Olivia is so excited that her YaYa was able to share her first Halloween with her, while she won't remember it, we have the pictures to share with her in a few years. We got TONS of Trick or Treaters - and always do, Riley did very well this year and didn't even attempt to eat any of the little kids.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Bassett, the ER and a shower...a full weekend.
Brad was finally starting to feel better and was able to even enjoy the yummy food at Olivia's Church Baby Shower - the ladies at Fort Trial are so generous and caring, Olivia received a ton of nice stuff, even a pack of size 6 diapers (we didn't even know they made size 6 diapers).
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Go Red Sox...
Leigh kept Olivia very busy while they were in Northfield, tons of people to visit, most of which were meeting Olivia for the first time, she was such a trooper, every day was filled with new faces and new places and she only had one rough day, little did we know at the time, but she was coming down with a cold, and yes folks, both Leigh and Liv are now sick. Listening to a 3 month old try and breathe through the congestion is heartbreaking at times.
One of our favorite days included a visit to the Pumpkin People Patch with Beth and her little ones Austin (6) and Sofia (2.5). The rain cut our afternoon short, but it was still great to see the kids together.
Now on to Olivia...she is now a master giggler, she really puts her voice behind her giggles these days. She has found her feet, she tugs on them and attemps to bring them closer to her face, but hasn't yet made the attempt to put them in her mouth, she has however found her thumb and become a champ of a thumb sucker, which we are hoping will save us a few trips to her room during the night when her pacifier falls out, or when she chooses to rip it out, she is working on putting it back in, sometimes it makes it, other times she wakes herself up.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Reach out and touch something...
And as you can tell by the photo above her head is getting much stronger. We had a great weekend here in Richmond, Friday night Leigh and Brad proved to themselves that eventhough they are now parents they are still fun. They hung out with neighbors and enjoyed a few cocktails until all hours of the morning, they had a great time, Olivia was asleep in Justin and Insley's room and didn't even wake up when we picked her up to transport her home to her crib. We also got our new car, a Yukon XL, Leigh is now studying for her CDL so that she can learn to park the "bus". We love it. The whole family spent Sunday at the Poor Farm Mountain Bike Race, it was a gorgeous day and we all enjoyed spending it outside, Brad especially enjoyed meeting a few pro's, I believe he may have even got an autograph or two...
Monday, October 1, 2007
Olivia Hangs with Leigh's JMU Pals...
And we mentioned in our previous post, we went to breakfast and to visit Dana in Waynesboro where she now lives. Olivia had a great time watching their three dogs run around the house.
Giggles Goes On Vacation
Brad and Leigh are both huge fans of Dave's Taverna, and were more than thrilled to enjoy lunch on at Dave's Taverna Express, then on to Kline's Dairy Bar for Pumpkin Custard, heaven on earth. We then stopped by Shenandoah Bicycle Company so Brad could check it out, we found Olivia's first bike there, a little Trek Tricycle - it was absolutely adorable.
Saturday morning we got up bright and early and went to meet Dana and Rich for breakfast at Mrs. Rowe's in Staunton, another fabulous meal, and it was so great to see them. After breakfast we went to see their new house - very nice.
Saturday Evening we had dinner at Cheeburger Cheeburger with Megs, Tim, April, Addison and Anna and then it was off to Justin and Insley's for a few drinks - so you can see it was a full weekend for Miss Olivia and she was a trooper through it all. Olivia even went to sleep right on schedule at Justin and Insley's and didn't make a peep when we transferred her to her own bed a few hours later. It's nice having a portable kid :)
And we should also mention that per the title of this post, Olivia can now laugh out loud, its adorable, her favorite place to practice is her changing table in her room, you lay her down and she just starts giggling away. Sometimes she really gets going and makes herself cough, its so cute.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Two Months...and too many shots.
So on to the exciting stuff, her stats:
Weight: 13 lbs 2 oz - 95%
Height: 24 inches - 95%
Head - 16 - 90%
She is a big healthy "little" girl, and according to Dr. Shook she is still "perfect". Leigh of course forgot to mention to Dr. Shook that Olivia has been spitting up more than normal, we are going to self diagnose with a mild case of Acid Reflux, and we do this with a great deal of experience with our group of friends who are going through it...
Other than the 2 Month Dr. Appointment, this has been a fairly quiet week, however tomorrow Leigh and Olivia are excited about their lunch date downtown with Lindsay and Leslie. The weekend should be fairly quiet with an unavoidable trip to Target and maybe a walk around the Short Pump Towncenter with Auntie Megs.
We ordered Liv's Halloween Costume this week, its a surprise, so you will have to check back after Halloween to see how adorable she is going to be. We should also mention that YaYa Worden is coming on Halloween day to spend a week, Brad will be out of town for a week so Leigh is looking forward to the extra set of hands/help.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
The Wedding Weekend
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
8 Weeks old...oh how things change...
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Our Little Model....
Olivia had her one month photo session on Friday - we couldn't have asked for a better mood, she was so well behaved, like a little angel.
We had a great time at Portrait Innovations, Ya-Ya and Gargaroo Worden came along for the ride and had a blast watching Olivia ham it up for the camera.
No one could believe she was there for her one month photo's, we are guessing it is because she is a little bigger than most one month olds.
After about an hour at the studio, she was a tired little girl, so the grown ups went out to lunch while Olivia took a much needed nap. Olivia then went home with her Daddy and spent the afternoon cuddling on the couch, while Leigh went shopping with her parents for house supplies, they close on Wednesday, so everyone is excited about the new house.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
No sleep for these girls...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Olivia hits the town...and her Tummy.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Our naked noodle
Friday, August 3, 2007
Olivia Turns Two Weeks Old
Brad & Leigh were able to enjoy a peaceful lunch at Chipotle after Olivia's Dr. Appointment, she slept the entire time, what a little angel.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Latest addition to Red Sox Nation
Yesterday Brad, Leigh and Olivia took their first "for fun" trip in the car, they went to Bruster's to get Ice Cream, none for Miss Olivia of course, but Brad and Leigh sure did enjoy themselves, Olivia was as quiet as a mouse and slept the entire way there and back, we think she is starting to come to terms with her car seat.
This week Leigh is determined to get Olivia out and about and show her the great things in life, such as Target. Their hope is to get there today, but with that as a goal we are hoping to get there by Wednesday.
Its tough taking car rides without bringing Riley along, but when we go in Leigh's car there just isn't room, its scary to think that we thought we would have the first two children before trading the Acura, now it looks like we will be lucky to get through Olivia's first year with the TL, it just doesn't have as much room as we would like.