Rainy Day Fun...

The weekend weather is 50/50, one nice day and one rainy day. Saturday was spent running errands and being outside, hence the nice day. And Olivia spent Sunday inside....playing....by....herself. Leigh watched Olivia make her way over to the stack of frames she just had taken down from the wall shelves...and Olivia turned herself around to play with the frames. It was adorable watching her entertain herself and pick up and put down one frame after another. And then she found the box and that was a fun toy to climb on, until it started to slide away from her, of course instead of going FORWARD to get it, she went back to the frames, since they were behind her...yes, still only in reverse. Leigh watched in silence as Olivia talked to herself and playing for several minutes before even turning around to confirm that "Momma" was still right behind her. Leigh remembers her Mom telling her a story about one time when she caught Leigh talking to herself (Leigh was really talking to Toto, her imaginary friend/dog) it brought tears to her eyes to watch Leigh as she held a conversation by herself and played alone...the same thing happened today. Leigh watched as Olivia played by herself, she even shushed Brad as he came in from the garage so as to not disturb Olivia. It was priceless.

As you can see, eventually she turned around to check on her Momma, and of course displayed one of her heart melting smiles. When it comes to attention spans, she probably doesn't lead the group, but she is up there, she can entertain herself far longer than Leigh ever could.

As for other updates: Leigh is still sick, she finally went to the Dr. yesterday and they confirmed, Bronchitis again...she had it at the very same time last year, even saw the same Dr. who at the time was 5 months pregnant (Leigh was 8) and both remembered each other, very funny. Brad got a ride in on Saturday late afternoon.

The Turner household is looking forward to YaYa and GaGa's arrival later this week, they will be in town for a few weeks. GaGa will go for a quick trip to The Diamond Ranch in Montana to help with Branding, but other than that they will spend some quality time with their favorite person in the world, Olivia.

Tomorrow is a big day in the Turner House, its Riley's THIRD Birthday...only four more years until they consider him a Sr. Citizen. Its about time Riley gets his teeth cleaned, so that is what he will get for his birthday present - knocked out to get his teeth cleaned, sounds like a real treat huh?

Brad and Leigh are looking forward to their long weekend in San Francisco, they leave on May 9th. Olivia will be in great hands, both Grammie and PawPaw and YaYa and GaGa will be here to take excellent care of her.