Pumpkins

These are pictures of Olivia from last week when we went to Gro-Moore farms to get pumpkins. Today we went to my Dad's house and he had bought some pumpkins to carve with Olivia. I of course forgot my camera, but my dad got some good pictures that I will be getting soon!

She had a great time and thought the pumpkin tasted great. She even ate a couple pumpkin seeds! She kept sticking her shovel in the pumpkins and playing with all of the goo! It kept her very happy for quite a while. She even took a bite right out of the pumpkin top.

We have yet to carve our pumpkins that we got at Gro-Moore farms... I have been thinking about painting them, but I am not sure if I am brave enough to give Olivia a paint brush yet!

Leaves

Last night while dinner was cooking we decided to bundle up Olivia and take her outside to play in the leaves. Brad raked up a little pile and we put her right in the middle! At first she looked at us like what are you doing? Then she started shoving leaves into her mouth. Then she finally started throwing them and moving her legs to hear the noise! It was very cute.

This week she also surprised me by saying Bye and waving...we all know she can say Hi a million times but this was definitely a bye! She also has her doggy and kitty sounds down, he he. Ask her what a doggy or kitty says and she will tell you...although she doesn't always do it for anyone. Oh and tell her to go get her baby and she will get her doll out of her toy box and then kiss it when you tell her to. She is getting so smart...I am amazed at the things she picks up on so quick.

I am pretty sure she will be walking within a few weeks. She stands up on everything, and thinks climbing the stairs is the coolest thing, even though Mommy does not and has had to put an extra gate up, which she is not too happy about!

Fall

I know I have been slacking in the blogging department lately. Sorry...I guess I just don't have a lot of interesting things to write about lately. I think I am going into hibernation early since Fall seems to be here. Lately all I want to do is cook and bake. I think I missed all of the cold weather foods. I have already made 2 pumpkin pies, apple crisp, and tomorrow will be making an apple pie. I am also making beef stew tomorrow, and went grocery shopping and have things to make lasagna, chili, and chicken casserole. I have to say that Fall is my favorite season. I love going outside and smelling that Fall smell...I guess it is the leaves? I have been taking walks on my days off with Olivia and the dog. I think Olivia likes the Fall too...she always falls asleep on our walks!

I know most of you will hate me for saying this but I for some reason cannot wait for the snow! I usually hate the snow but I am looking forward to it this year....maybe because it will be fun to see Olivia play in the snow for the first time, or because I love to decorate for Christmas...or because I am pregnant and weird, hehe! By the way, I am half way through...only 19 more weeks to go. I can't believe it, the time is going by so fast.

Well I just wanted to let everyone know that I am here and am too busy nesting to blog!

It's a...

Girl! We found out on Friday at my 20 week ultrasound that we are having another girl! Poor Brad...he is totally outnumbered! It will be nice to be able to reuse all of Olivia's things for the new baby. I still would like to have a boy someday but we won't be trying again for at least 3-4 years!!! 2 under 2 will probably be more than I can handle!

Birthday Party

Olivia is officially 1 now! I think she knows that she is older. She is starting to pull herself up on everything now and when she is finally standing, she looks around and starts smiling because she is so proud of herself. It is so funny.

So I didn't make a butterfly cake, I decided to take the easy route and just cut a sheet cake into the number one and decorated it. It turned out pretty good and tasted good too. There wasn't one piece left! As you can see in the pictures Olivia loved it too.

Unfortunately it did rain, well actually poured, but it started at the end when we were doing the cake and we had tents set up so it wasn't all that bad. I have to say it was a long weekend, between running around Friday getting everything we needed, the party Saturday, and then the cleanup on Sunday, the party pretty much consumed our whole weekend. I think next year we may downplay it a bit or maybe go somewhere where they plan and cleanup everything for you!

Cake

So I am going to attempt to make a butterfly cake for Olivia's 1st birthday this weekend. This is a picture of what I would like it to look like...I did not make this cake! I think this person used a butterfly cake pan though...and I do not have one and wasn't planning on buying one. I am using my Aunts book that shows you how to cut pieces of cake to shape into a butterfly but it seems a little difficult and I don't know if I have the patience for that. I guess we will find out Friday when I make this attempt...I may end up buying a cake pan...that is if I can even find one! I will definitely take pictures of the finished product whatever it may be!

Birthday sign

Olivia's birthday is coming up in 10 days! Yes Olivia will be 1 year old in 10 days! My little baby is getting so big. So I copied AmyJo's idea and made her a Happy Birthday sign that I can use over and over every year for her. It took a lot longer than I thought because I cut out all of the letters by hand but it was worth it, and nice to get a little craft time in. I have also been working on getting her first year of her baby book complete so I can get ready to start the next one! I have been doing it pretty consistently for her so it is coming a long good.