Wordless Wednesday

Olivia + Finger Paint = FUN!!!

Well after about a million tries at getting my pictures to load I finally got them to. This was suppose to be a wordless Wednesday post but instead you get it today and it's far from wordless.

The other day we went to Target and picked up some color wonder finger paints, thanks to a tip from a fellow facebook friend. If you haven't heard/seen of color wonder stuff your missing out. This stuff is great you can paint and color and it doesn't make a mess. Olivia thinks it's pretty great too. Yesterday we took out the paints and painted a beautiful picture that is now placed on our oven very nicely with scotch tape. Now, I'm not trying to sell you the stuff Olivia asked for it by name, scotch tape(it's from a book). Here are the shots I got from our fun with finger paints yesterday morning.


I LOVE this shot of Olivia with her tongue sticking out. This shows the complete concentration on her part, I know this because I do it too.

This was probably one of the best purchases I have made this summer for Olivia. She has asked about a hundred times to paint since I got them Tuesday night.

Wedding Bells

This weekend we had the pleasure of attending Lonnie and Stephanie's wedding. Lonnie is Paul's cousin. We were also honored to have our darling Olivia in the wedding as the flower girl. So I thought, oh my goodness, Olivia a flower girl, are they crazy, she's never going to walk down the aisle in front of all those people and throw flowers. Come Friday at the rehearsal all of my fears came true. Olivia DID nothing that she was asked to do and I began freaking out. Now in her defense she did have a sinus infection, was on the verge of a double ear infection, and didn't nap at all and it was 6pm. Well after a lot of screaming, crying, and a great night sleep it was time for her to wow us all. And WOW us she did!! She walked down the aisle like a champ tossing her flowers and looking fabulous. I was such a proud Mommy!!!
Russ and Jen's kids were also in the wedding....aren't these three just the cutest all dressed up??

This has to be one of my faves from the day. While the rest of the wedding party was posing for pictures my little darling walked over to the piano and starting playing away---thank goodness it was closed and she was pretending. Look at those bare little feet:)

Kendall tried her hardest to get Olivia to smile and pose for some pictures. She's such a good big cousin but her efforts didn't get Olivia to smile, we had a long day and she was exhausted.

Congratulations to Lonnie and Stephanie!!!!! Thank you for letting us be part of your special day.

It Got Me Thinking

Tonight as I was putting Olivia to bed I started thinking about how much life changes and how quickly. As you may or may not know Olivia is now in a BIG big girl bed, a full size bed. We've been slowly redeocating her room to be a BIG GIRL room...sad. As I was laying there with her talking about our day I started thinking about how different this summer is compared to last. Last year this time I was fighting with Olivia to sleep at night. Most nights I had to rock her until she was almost asleep if not all the way to sleep. This year not so much...we read a few stories finish up a cup of milk from our before bed snack and go to bed. I tuck her in all snug as a bug in a rug as I tell her and lights out. Ok so maybe not so quick and painless, she did ask for another kiss tonight--I couldn't argue have you seen how cute my kid is lately:) I just can't believe how much of a big girl she is becoming. This is such a fun age, except for the tantrums, I wish she could stay 2 forever!!

Sorry no pictures tonight, this was a last minute late night post and I don't have the energy to sit and wait to upload. I'll be back in a day or two with some pics of her new room.

It's About Time I Feel Like Myself Again

Well this last week has been trying to say the least. A week ago yesterday I had, what the doctor said was minor, sinus surgery. Minor my butt!!! I think I slept for 48 hours straight-yeah, try being a Mom when all you want to do is sleep. Not only did I sleep for 2 days straight I haven't been able to bend over or lift more then 20 lbs, what fun when you have a VERY busy toddler at home. I think the doctor had lost his mind. We'll we've managed and I'm finally back to, almost, normal. I'm so lucky to have my Mom and Stacy to help us out when we need it--they kept Olivia from my surgery day until Friday so I could recover. THANKS!!!!!

Even though I had surgery it didn't hold me back to celebrate the 4th of July with our family and friends. Sunday we loaded up the boat headed out to Bird Island to enjoy some sand and sun. Olivia and Daddy did a lot of sand castle building. Actually Daddy did a lot of building and Olivia did a lot of this........smashing the castle Daddy built. I don't think he minded one bit, he kept building and she kept smashing. We had a lot of fun.

We also took Olivia to her first fireworks this year. I was a little nervous but she LOVED it. I wish I would have brought my camera but I left it in the car. We went to downtown Fernandina Beach and sat by the docks to watch. Olivia *copped a squat* as she calls it in the grass and was ready for some fun. She ran around, played with other kids, and played with rocks until the fireworks started. She sat down and watched every minute of the show. She would say *oooohhhh, aaaahhhh* as they went off. When the show was over she cried, yeah cried because they were over. She told Daddy that she wanted to take the sparkles home with her. We told her that we could go back at Christmas and see some fireworks, she replied *that sounds like fun*

You may remember I posted a few weeks back that Olivia got some watermelon seeds that we planted. Well they grew and grew and grew and grew. Well they aren't really that big since they were mini's but Olivia sure was proud of them. Here she is with her first crop of watermelons. Paul and Olivia have tried them and said they tasted pretty good.

The Water's Fine

Last week we took our family vacation to the lake. The week started off a little rocky...Olivia wasn't much into the water, which was quite a surprise to me, but after a few days she got right in and LOVED it. If we were there a few more days I think she would have been jumping off the dock with her cousins--maybe next year. I took so many pictures I had a hard time narrowing it down for you to see so I picked some of my faves and wanted to share them with you. Our week was filled with all of the normal lake fun...

Playing at the beach...even if it was the one that Daddy and Uncle Russ made for the kids. The house we stay at doesn't exactly have a beach but Olivia always gets what she wants, therefore she got a beach. Daddy and Uncle Russ spent a good hour pulling weeds and raking up grass so the kids would have a beach. Swimming with Daddy...this is before Olivia realized that she could swim on her own in her swimmies or life jacket.

There's always time to waterslide at the lake. Look at the smile I think she's having FUN!!! Finally taking off on her own and swimming. I think it was Wednesday(we came home Friday morning) before Olivia realized that swimming on her own wasn't that bad....heck she was having a BLAST by Thursday afternoon on her own.

Jet ski riding with Daddy. As you can see Paul let Olivia drive...jeez and people wonder why I worry and hover over her. She has a need for speed...just like her Daddy.

All in all we had a wonderful vacation. I was glad to come home but only to get back to our routine. It's amazing to me how much a few days away from home and change Olivia's daily routines, no matter how hard we tried to keep it.

Snip, Snip, Snip

Saturday morning I(me and mom) took Olivia for her first real haircut. She has had many trims but never a real hair cut at a beauty shop, until today. I was REALLY nervous about it, I was so afraid that they would mess her hair all up. We've tried really hard over the past few months to let Olivia's bangs grow out and only give her a few wispy ones. I've waited too long and had to do something about Olivia's do. So on the advice of Russ(my brother in law) we took Olivia to the same place they take Colby. They were so prepared for kids-race car to sit in, tv, and a little toy area for them to play. Olivia was happy within the first 5 seconds when she saw the cards to play with. I of course brought my camera along for the trip so here are the highlights of the day.
Look how serious Olivia is in these pictures...I think she was scared of the stylist but she behaved and even started getting comfortable towards the end.

I started getting nervous when she started cutting there was a lot of hair falling to the floor, but she insisted she knew what she was doing and I needed to calm down. She told me she wouldn't do anything to my babies hair that she wouldn't do to her own child's hair.

Look at Olivia making faces at herself in the mirror.

Getting the new do dryed to see how pretty we looked.

OK, so I could have gotten a better face for this shot but I didn't. I did however get a good shot of the end product of our trip to the salon.

Olivia's hair looks so much better now. It's not all wild and crazy anymore, well it's still wild and crazy when she wakes up. We'll definately be going back to the salon next time we need a little trim.