Weekend at the River

I can't seem to keep up with this Blog thing but I guess something is better than nothing.

We just got back from a weekend with Nana and Papa Ken at Center Point on the Gualdelupe River. We had a great time. Olivia loved the water (of course) and we had a lot of fun playing in the waterfall under the dam. Olivia took her first shot at skipping rocks. She didn't quite get the rocks to skip but she seems to have a good throwing arm AND she is ambidextrous!
Mamma and Papa came Saturday afternoon and we went down to the Biergarten. The bird coops were stinky as ever.

Olivia did great sleeping in a big bed so we will need to start thinking about moving her out of the crib. Boohoohoo, she's not a baby anymore. :(

I'll post some pictures of the weekend later.

Holidays

Christmas-time with a child is such fun! Every morning while the tree was up Olivia walked out into the living room and would gasp, ooh, and ahh at the beauty of the tree. We told her that she was not allowed to touch it and for the most part she followed this rule. As far as I know, she only touched 3 times. Pretty good for a 17month old.
Christmas Eve we went to church with my parents, came home and ate tamales and homemade pinto beans. Afterward we opened a few presents. Olivia loved all of them. She flew her planes around the house until bedtime. Then on Christmas morning we got to play with all they toys that Santa brought. Olivia just loved it! Her face lit up and she ran straight to the tree to play with the toys. She seemed excited about each gift.
In order to make room for all of her toys we cleaned out the office and have made it into a play room.

Christmas Eve

Well, Christmas in upon us and it is so exciting with a child. Every day Olivia stands in awe of the tree. First thing she did today was walk over to it and plug it in, with me running toward her yelling "no, no, don't touch!"

Weekend with Uncle Cameron

What a great weekend we all had! Cameron was in town as well as our friends Trey and Kacy. Saturday we had breakfast with Nana, GP Ken, Great-GP, and Uncle Cameron. Then we came back and napped. That afternoon both of her Great Grandparents came over for a visit. Kacy and Trey also came over. After the Grandparents left Oli took a nap. After she woke up we all enjoyed sitting around the frog pool watching Olivia splash around.

Sunday afternoon we went to Guadalupe River State Park and had a great time! Oli loved being able to walk, swim, and splash around in the water. She really wanted to eat those river rocks!

Oli must have had a little bug this week. She had the runs for about 2 days but no fever and really didn't seem to feel too bad. She was a little more clingy and a little fussy but that's all.

Today we tried to go swimming at the pool but there was a swim meet going on so we had to come home and swim in the blowup froggy pool. She still had a blast. That girl loves water! She is finally blowing bubbles!!! I hope she will do it in the big pool too.

I talked to her today about working on her walking. We set a goal of 3 weeks from now. That should give her time to practice before her 1st birthday.

Trip to Houston

We spent the weekend in Houston visiting friends with a little but of family mixed in. We stayed Friday night at the Hamilton's and Saturday at the Dudley's. Olivia was easy cheesy as usual. We are so lucky to have such an easy going baby.

On Sunday Oli got to stay with her Nana and Grandpa Ken while we went to the Astros game. She had lots of fun swimming and playing.