Thursday, January 24, 2008

Happy Half Birthday Baby Olivia

Its been an amazing 6 months filled with laughter, tears and lots and lots of hope. Watching a little one grow up has to be one of life's greatest joys, everything is new to her, the world is so bright, it isn't the scary place that we all see on the news and read about in the papers, its refreshing to see the world through her eyes now and then, and at times it scares us to death that our little one will one day lose that innocent lens she currently sees the world through.


Her Half Birthday was celebrated on January 18th, we had friends over for Pizza and Cupcakes, Leigh attempted to spell Olivia out on the cupcakes, but we all know her middle name isn't even close to Martha Stewart, Leigh is hoping that Olivia will look back on the pictures when she is older and remember the lesson she was taught at an early age "Its the thought that counts".


Mommy and Daddy gave Olivia a Jumparoo for her Half Birthday present, we are thrilled with her reaction, in her eyes its the greatest toy on Earth. With every bounce/jump a smile spreads across her face and she generally falls into a fit of giggles within seconds. She LOVES it.

YaYa picked Olivia up early from "school" so that she would be home when Leigh got home. Leigh had a rough week of work and needed some quality time with Baby Olivia.

Grammie and PawPaw Turner arrived around 5:30pm to spend the weekend with the "Birthday Baby". With them they brought two new toys for Olivia, which she adores, she loves the new sounds and shapes, but what Olivia really loved, even though she doesn't know it yet, is that Grammie and PawPaw brought Brad's old Red Flyer Wagon that was given to him as a child by his Grandpa Martin, she will treasure it.

Olivia was given the green light to stay up "past" her bedtime, usually we have to hold her eye lids open to keep her awake until 7pm, but she was bouncing in her jumparoo until 9pm like a little rock star.






Besides the Red Flyer wagon Brad's favorite present that Olivia received would have to be the Redskin outfit from The Koehlers, Olivia had a blast playing with the hangers. Leigh's favorite would have to be the new Pink Shoes she received from Brian and Molly :)


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