Olivia at 2 months old

Olivia's 2 month checkup (2 weeks ago) she weighed 12lbs 5 oz and was 25 inches long. A nice healthy sized little girl. She still eats every two hours during the day and gives me stretches of up to 6 hours at night (but that has been really inconsistent). She is an efficient eater and only nurses for about 10 mins. at a time. The most of the pics below were taken in our backyard on the day bed Brad made for me. She is smiling a lot now especially to faces and it just mealts our hearts. It doesn't matter how many kids you have, infant smiles are truly magical.

A nice ATNR (ok this caption will only be understood by someone with a medical background)

A better view of the bed Brad (or should I call him Bob the builder) made for me.

what a sweet little face

Ava's Birthday Pictures

Ava turned 2 years old on February 8th. We had a low key celebration at our house with just family. In the picture below Bella is helping Grams make a cake for Ava.

Ava's cake

The Birthday girl doing what she loves the most, eating anything with sugar in it.

January Pictures

Some pics from January

The girls at the zoo

Olivia's first trip to the park

I love this picture. I wanted them to all jump at the same time but obviously Ava had a little timing issue. I think it makes the picture more interesting.

On the dragon at our local park/waterpark a view from above, this park is great because it is a waterspray park as well when it is warm outside and it is new and FREE! and just down the street from our house.

Ava uses her eyes to speak to us even though she has lots of words. She hides in the garage and poops these days and I caught her in action.

playing by the stream at Santee Lakes where Grams and Granddad have their motorhome

Ava is definitely our snuggler. But she can also be our "stage 5 clinger"

Ava loves her "dad dad"

The family

Bella speaks in a high pitched voice when she is talking about her baby sister. She just adores her.

The girls playing in the motorhome.

Ava under daddy's legs

some more pics from Olivias photoshoot.

I love this photo my mom (Grandma Mary) took of my neices Nikki and Maddie. They are really sweet little girls. Even though they are not too far away we don't see them very often, so at christmas time Bella couldn't remember their names. So she started calling them the "red girl" and the "green girl" which referred to the color dress each of them was wearing.

Olivia's photoshoot

Here are just a few pictures we took for Olivia's announcement back in January. I really wanted a pose of Olivia like this. Little did I know how difficult it actually is to do this. Luckily Brad and I took the photos together so he came up with a unique solution to keeping her in this pose!

We had to get some finally of all the girls!

Meet Olivia

Ok I am trying to catch up sequentially. So here they are Olivia was born December 28, 2008 at 2:24pm, weighing 8 lbs 10.5 oz and 21 inches long.

Our sweet little girl

Grandma Mary meeting Olivia for the first time

Bella and Grandma checking out her baby sister or her baby as she refers to Olivia

Granddad and his new little granddaughter

Daddy and his girls

Grams meeting Olivia with Bella making sure her baby is ok!

Ava and mommy at the hospital

at home in the swing

3 days old

About 2 weeks old

Finally a new post!

These pictures were all taken prior to Christmas at Balboa Park (with the exception of the strangling pic). Yes it has been quite a while since I posted anything here. I have been posting other pics on facebook because it is much quicker but I cannot tell a story or elaborate on the pictures there. So I am posting a few at at time and hope to get caught up to the more recent pics in the next few days. Keep checking back!