Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Go Red Sox...

What an amazing time to be a New England sports fan, we are all very excited about not only how the Pats are playing these days, but that the Celtics have a much stronger team this year, the Bruins aren't terrible and last but certainely not least, the Red Sox are in the World Series, again. The world is a great place to be right now...Olivia's favorite player is Jacoby Ellsbury, she thought it was a safe bet to go with the youngest guy on the team, she thought that increased her odds of a date in a few years...

Leigh and Liv had a wonderful trip to Massachusetts, the flight was a dream, everyone on JetBlue was beyond helpful and Olivia was an angel, she didn't make a peep the entire flight, and while we are talking about flights we should mention that the trip back to Richmond today was great as well, Liv entertained a few fellow passengers with her giggles, such a charmer she is.
Olivia was able to spend some quality time with her Great-Grandmother Sandra, as she was visiting for the week as well. She also spent a day with her Terrific Aunt Martha (she isn't a fan of the title "great aunt", so we have re-titled her Terrific Aunt". Lots of quality family time for Olivia, she loved every second of it.

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.

And of course what would a trip to Northfield be without a trip to the Carter's Outlet in VT, that place is baby-clothes heaven on Earth, of course Ya-Ya spoiled her to death, she is going to be the best dressed kid around.

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.
Liv also met her future husband while in Northfield, Jayden Harrington, they went out to lunch on Thursday and then he came over for a playdate on Friday afternoon before Leigh left for the Celtics game with Adam, Kear, Justin, Jon and Kori.
Brad has been sick with a "Virus" since Saturday morning, we are all very thankful that Olivia was not here to catch whatever it is he is passing around - he still isn't feeling well and its been 5 days. We are still planning on heading to Bassett Friday morning despite our illnesses, we are looking forward to a quick stop at Chesterfield Berry Farm on the way, no time like the present to finally pick out our pumpkins, better late than never.

Ya-Ya Worden arrives on Halloween to stay for a week while Brad goes out of town for work, Brad was out of town at this very same conference last year when Leigh found out she was pregnant, she kept it a secret from Monday until Thursday night when he arrived home, she wanted to tell him in person - can you believe its already been a year? Time sure does fly.

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.

We are all looking forward to our trip to Bassett, its been over a month since we have seen the Turner's and Olivia misses them to pieces.















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