Singing Baaa Baaa

Earlier this week, Olivia was singing the tune to Baa Baaa Black Sheep (aka Twinkle Twinkle, and ABC's) in the car on the way home from daycare.  Super cute!  She has also figured out how to put on her own shoes.... although, it's not easy.

She still loves to crawl into Trixie's house (never Kiwi's, always Trixie's) and wash her foot with the water in the bowl.  That's good for 15 minutes of entertainment! 

We had a fun dance night yesterday, and she's going down easily again.... but continues to talk to herself until about 9:00 or so.  

Growing soooooo Big

Good weekend!  We stained one section of the pergola, and I started training 3 jasmine up their posts.  It was so nice to have hours of time to work together with Kevin for the first time in a long while. We had a lovely time at dinner in Berkeley For Annie birthday- a nice little date.  Olivia slept a ton - 5 hour nap Saturday,  then slept from 9 pm until 12 pm the next day when Kevin finally woke her up.  She remained awake until 7:45 ish when she went right to sleep.  And I swear she grew an inch!  Happy as can be and not sick...

Olivia demonstrated her affinity for climbing ladders while we were all on the patio and was very sad when I moved the cooler out of the kitchen and she can't climb up on it anymore to play with her cups and bowls.   Olivia tried her first Jamba Juice yesterday, and is a big fan!  Strawberries wild.  Delicious!  She's been climbing on the coffee table and bouncing around, because she knows that's not where she should be.  We switched to her new size 5 tennis shoes that light up, they are surely fun. 

Saturday morning, Olivia and I caught up with Megan and Poppy for the first time in a long while.  When Poppy had to go home for her nap, Olivia and I went to the Palo alto junior museum just because we were on that side of the Bay.  Fun morning.

Yesterday we took it somewhat easy as we recovered from the wine at dinner.  We took a family trip to Ardenwood for a few hours and had a blast feeding the animals.

Easter and Colorado

Last weekend was a busy one.  Friday I successfully had LASIK and my eyes are still settling in.  It's pretty nice to not have to deal with contacts in the morning

Chips & Guac, Putting on Shoes and MORE!

Fun evening tonight.  We went to Chili's for dinner just to mix things up a bit and Olivia was very into the chips and guacamole.  We didn't think she would like it, but she tasted it, thought for a second or two, then nodded her head and went for more.  Now we have to teach her the social rules of no double (or triple or quadruple....) dipping!  She sucks the guac off the chip, then dips it again.

Back at home, Olivia finally was able to put on one of her own brown shoes!  She's been bound and determined to accomplish that task for some time now.  Success!!!

I was excited to play with two work ladies tomorrow who live in the area and their little ones.  Sadly, the week has been so hectic that I have to work tomorrow.  There's no getting out of it.  This sucks.  Sure is hard to have a social life.  So much for the cushy CMDM job.  It's very busy to sort out new processes, etc.

I'm pooped!  Long week.  Olivia was sick on Monday and I enjoyed staying home to be the Mom.  We snuggled and she fell asleep on me out on the patio couch.  Gorgeous weather, sweet moment for sure.  I could use a few days off.

Last weekend I managed to rearrange the linen closet to put all the pills up high, definitely a good feeling to have that danger tucked away.  Monday we even disposed of all the old pills.  The rest of the week was just super busy with work  - booo hissss!

This coming weekend Kevin and I will join the party up in Berkeley for Annie's birthday.  I have to get her a present.  I'm hoping to hide the knives away off the kitchen counters since our little one now likes to climb up on things in the kitchen.  Her favorite game lately has been to hop up on the cooler that's temporarily in the kitchen and rearrange all the items on the Olivia table next to the fridge.  Super cute.  Maybe I'll see Megan too.  It's been awhile.  I'm so sleepy I can't really even think about the weekend.  Super bummed I have to have a busy day at work tomorrow.  Hopefully I'll actually be able to spend some time getting my tasks done and not just in meetings all day.

Other FUN things:
- Monday night, Olivia and I were watching the Science channel version of jackass where they showed diving bloopers (belly flops), guys running into each with with the big exercise balls and then bouncing off (going flying), and horses missing jumps - Olivia was *cracking up* at the bloopers.  She thought it was soooo funny - clearly, she has Kevin's sense of humor.  It was hilarious.

- In the sideyard we have a pile of plywood and buckets of rocks from building the pergola.  Olivia likes to climb up on the pile of plywood and we're always worried about splinters and her falling off.  So one day I ran over and took her off the plywood pile, saying No, and set her down by the patio.  Well, the little trickster goes over to the buckets of rocks and acts all interested in those, then when I walked a few more feet away onto the patio she turned and beelined for the plywood pile, laughing the whole way and so proud of herself for tricking me.  So funny!!!  It's impossible to keep from laughing.

Hm, what else... 

Fun fun fun!

MyWe had a fabulous weekend! 

Friday evening was beautiful.  We did a little yard work and Olivia helped.  Kev had the day off and worked around the house.  I'm a little stressed at work so I tried to do some email after O went to sleep.

Saturday,  Olivia and I met Toni and Baby James at the Newark family day Easter egg hunt. The egg hunt was a little too intense for the little ones (and JJ missed it by 5 min) so I called him and Kev picked up some eggs and candy from the store for our own hunt in the backyard.  Toni, JJ, O and I hung out at the fabulous park there and the kids had a great time.  They played follow the leader down th e slide, loved the swings,  and bossy little Olivia wouldn't let other kids twice her size by her on the jungle gym.  We will have to work on that attitude. 

Back home,  we had lunch of fried chicken that Toni picked up and had our own little egg hunt.  The kiddos had fun playing in the yard and the mommies really enjoyed catching up.  :)  they left when it was clearly past naptime for Olivia.  Toni was clearly very happy to hang out and photos of her house in Mountain Home are gorgeous!

After naptime, we went over to Helen ' s home  near central Fremont.  Finally met her husband, Wes, and Kev came with too.  We all played in the community pool.  Definitely need to find one for us to play in throughout the summer.  We all had a great time, and Wes had brought down to go margaritas for poolside enjoyment.  Fun times.  Olivia was a little nervous at first, but then loved the pool.  Cooper is the cutest little 5 year old and was happy to play catch with Kevin. 

Olivia went down for the 6th night in a row without a peep.

Sunday we skype with mum Mums and pop pops, the I had to work a bit and put Olivia to sleep.  I even managed to take the dogs for a little walk.  When Olivia awoke, we hit up Ardenwood Farm And She Was So Excited About The Bunnies And chicks.  She was excited and scared of the sheep, or Baaa Baaas.  Super cute.  She was happy as can be just wandering all around and exploring.  I'm in love.

We hit up the grocery and returned home where Kev had finished the pavers next to the veggie gardens.  Looks great!  He also cleaned up a bunch of the backyard.  It gets better every weekend!

Olivia had been just so super cute lately, it's just that much harder to leave her at daycare in the mornings.  I'd way rather spend more time with her.

Kev favorite saying lately had been, "that's a whole lotta horchada!"  Whatever that means!

Olivia is stringing together short sentences, and picks up all sorts of words.  It's so fun watching her figure things out!

A relaxing weekend

Sat, after music class, I volunteered at a women in engineering event at SJSU.  It was energizing and good to give back.  Oh, and we made a fort in the family room and had fun laughing when daddy monster surprised Olivia with tickles.

Sunday, Olivia and I went to anne's baby sprinkle and had a good time.  Olivia was chasing bubbles all around and being cute.  Back at home, kev was installing more pacers along the veggie garden and I took a load to Goodwill.  I also removed a few grass plants in the back yard and it looks way better.  Olivia enjoyed helping. 

Olivia is stringing words together in little sentences, and really wants to help around the house.  She gets really excited about books and helps with the dishwasher.

Back in the Saddle

We are back to a regular work schedule with Kevin much healthier and Olivia back at daycare early in the morning.  Olivia and Kevin definitely bonded over the last couple weeks with Daddy taking her to daycare.  Olivia's little antics of holding her hands up while thinking, and then pointing when the light bulb goes on are ridiculously cute.  Last night she would say "oh no!" And put her hands on her cheeks.  Too darn cute! 

Last weekend we spent in the yard.  About 24 bags of mulch later it looks much better.  The lawn is mowed, the veggie garden planted, the drip system rearranged, and weeds mostly attacked.  All in time for the weather to warm up and the drought to stare us all in the face.  We will have to really take advantage of our outside room as much as possible now before everything tanks.  I have to get up earlier to pump my shower water in addition to Olivia's.   Our salvia out front which hasn't been watered at all is doing great right now so that's encouraging.

Olivia helped me plant her first tomato plant.  She couldn't wait to get in the dirt.  Super cute. 

Saturday we attended music class but Olivia was still recovering from the latest sickness and was a little clingy.  But by the end was having fun.  After working in the yard (kevin had some serious weed fighting next to the fence), we had a lovely dinner with Rich and Debbie while the Janeiro's babysat.  What a nice date!  Especially since we are both healthy again. 

Ok, work time....