Fall weekend

Fast asleep with her favorite pig at Grammy & Grampy's house

She loves when we do laundry. Any guesses as to why?

Sitting by the river before Church on Sunday, and trying to sneak a taste of the leaves before Mommy catches her.

Enjoying the beautiful Sunday weather by the river.

Pretty in purple, even if she is a little tall for her dress.

On Daddy's shoulders after a free concert at a nearby state park.

Fun at the farm

Roses for Olivia Rose

This will NOT be Olivia's Halloween costume. Grandma bought it on sale last year, but it is already too short for her. She was stretched tight with her hood on and could barely move in this costume. She does look pretty darn cute, though.

Playing with Grandma's rocking dog. She kept making her doggie noise...ruhruhruhruh.

Just pushing her car around and jabbering the whole time.

New skills

Olivia prefers to push her stroller instead of riding in it now.

She's such a little mommy...pushing her doll around.

Must...destroy...stacks...of...diapers...

Mommy lets me wash my own face after eating. If I appear a little distressed here, it's because I think I got some egg in my ear and I'm not sure I got it out.

Ten months

Time to vote! Which of the following photos should go on our wall to represent ten months old on Olivia's 12-month perspective photo collection? I picked the best five of the twenty or so pictures I took (it is SO HARD to get her to sit still).

Put my arm around the monkey...like this? You can't see his face? Is that important?

You are no match for me, monkey!

I'm pushing this monkey's head down. Gonna show him who's boss around here.

What? I AM holding the monkey nicely.

Whatever Mom...I'll hug the dang monkey already. Are you happy now?

Busy, busy weekend

Riding "to town" with Daddy on Friday, holding one of the crosses from his Serra Club. This is an unedited picture. Apparently, Mommy doesn't know how to center a picture correctly.

Saturday morning, playing before our drive to a cousin's wedding.
She has no idea that she's in for a 3+ hour drive today.

We all survived the long drive, and are awaiting the beginning of the wedding.
Olivia has decided that she does not want to wear her hat.

She's very proud of herself for getting her way about the hat thing.

At the reception, Olivia started to get a little slaphappy.
This is when she was giggling uncontrollably during the cha-cha slide.

Sunday was cousin Molly's birthday party. Olivia participated in the kid crafts by making her own party hat (with some help from Grandma).

The drive home from the birthday party was a LONG one, so we stopped a couple of hours from home to have dinner. Can you guess where?

Labor Day Weekend

This is Olivia singing. Also, this is the first time she ever wore a commercially identifiable character on her clothes.


We went to a Labor Day party yesterday, and they had a bouncy house for the kids. Olivia loved it. I'm thinking of getting one to use as a playpen!


This is Olivia playing with toys at the party. She looks like she's imitating Mommy's life, except I don't do much vacuuming.