Buzzing Around

Little Miss O at 14/15 months

My little Olivia, what a sweetheart you are. You have such a sense of wonderment that your father and I love to watch. You are always ready for adventure and change.... an explorer at heart. We love to see you interacting with your peers and with adults. It looks like all the adults just can't get their eyes off of you. There's just something about you that people immediately go goo-goo over. Here are a few things we notice daily:

• when someone walks into the room or walks by the front of the house, you immediately wave and say "Hi" (in a sweet little voice)
• the bath, pool or just any kind of water to splash in gives you great enthusiasm... we know this by the swiftly waving of your hands, bouncing your body up and down and huge smile from ear to ear. 
• if we ask where your nose is, you point to your nose and then start clapping. we all join and clap with a YAY!! then you stick your tongue out.
• what a dancer you are! any music, any time and we see you boogie down. Oh' and you have this thing where you keep one leg stationary while the other leg taps which spins you around. Where did you learn that? hehe
• you love blueberry pancakes, anything potato, anything crunchy, broccoli, carrots, brown rice, pears, strawberries, goat milk and yogurt.
• the look you give us when you're talking Olivia language is so cute because you seem to think we know exactly what your saying. it's adorable.
• lover of all animals / which are all called DAW (Dog)
• anyone can pick you up after a brief introduction (always looking to us to make sure we're okay with it).
• 8 teeth with some molars just about to surface
• starting to give more hugs and closed mouth kisses ( haha, you use to open your mouth and cup our nose)

Here's some photos of you in the backyard:

All in all, you're a bright little lady with so much curiosity and excitement. We are lucky to be your parents and grateful for all the love you give us all day, every day. I Love You Miss Olivia, we love you!! Kiss Kiss

A Day in the Life of Olivia

 her dad, the Bee Keeper

music always playing in the background

pals Domino and Yogi

water hose and pool are some of her favorite things

pointing to people walking by and saying "Hi"

 Eating Strawberries

 putting too many strawberries in her mouth at once

making the face like she hates it but really she likes it and wants more

Spring Clearing

 Mama has no closet

 Zach's Dali print that I stare at every morning 

 Where the magic happens (it was just set up for me to say :)

I've started the clearing. Yes, the clearing and then the cleaning. I think is a two-part series. First, get rid of all the clutter and extra things that you don't need and then do a deep cleaning. Before motherhood, I would take the entire day and do both (and not just one room - the entire house). Now, I can hardly do one room. It kind of makes me crazy on how little I can do now but really? It's not that big of a deal to do things in steps. I'm learning to just chill out with the "Have To Do" lists. It will get done and in the mean time accept the process. So, I started with our room. It's very small so it didn't take up the entire day but we definitely had a lot of clothes to weed out. Cleared out shoes and extra books. I don't like to touch Zach's side too much. He's a bit of a hoarder with books so I try and just organize it and leave it alone. On with the next room...

Chillaxing

Lovely Sunday afternoon

Gainesville Duck Pond area

 Blooming flowers

Hi Cat!

 Spring Arts Festival Downtown

 Growing taller by the minute (14 months tomorrow)

Running around

Today was a very chill day. We walked, played in the pool, went to Target and watched some Yo Gabba Gabba. Olivia loves that show - she gets TV face. It's pretty funny. Zach has 2 weeks till this semester is over... Yay! The last month of every semester is soooo hard! Olivia and I miss our Zach! I guess we will wait and then we will play! hopefully at the beach! Later ya'll

Buzzing Around

 Friday afternoon - very quiet

Nana Flo sending cute Easter cards

Zach's out of hand record collection

Domino and Yogi in our overgrown backyard (renters)

Olivia's awesome 2012 Calender drawn by Caroline Paquita

Our neighbors cat - we think his name is Tombo - he's rad!

Have a great weekend! Spring Arts Fest is this weekend... I'll be sure to post some pictures.