Olivia has a new favorite doll-Baby Beans. She's got jelly beans on her outfit, hence the name. Baby Beans goes everywhere Olivia goes now. The other night I came into the living room to find Olivia showing Baby Beans all the toys in the new Toy's R Us magazine. She had her right on her lap, talking to her about it. Of course once the camera came out, the scenario changed a little, but it was cute as can be. However, her little cuteness isn't always cute. This same day Olivia spent some time in time out at day care for punching, hitting in the back, and pulling hair. We're going through quite the phase with her now. I love all her new vocabulary & she's doing a very good job at putting sentences together, but sometimes it's "Don't talk to me", "Don't wook (look) at me", "Don't sing to me (which I can understand)" or the latest one "Don't kiss me on the head" or the Miss Independence really coming out "Don't help me" Can you say terrible two's?
These two pictures are from yesterday. Olivia's daycare had a Halloween Party for all the kids, and she came home with quite the bag of candy. She was feeding Baby Beans her Milk Duds, and came to me with the half empty box and chocolate drooling down her mouth, saying "Baby beans don't wike them". Obviously Olivia does.
These two pictures are from yesterday. Olivia's daycare had a Halloween Party for all the kids, and she came home with quite the bag of candy. She was feeding Baby Beans her Milk Duds, and came to me with the half empty box and chocolate drooling down her mouth, saying "Baby beans don't wike them". Obviously Olivia does. 
Olivia and Ryan keeping busy coloring.
Olivia, Justin, and Pat after day 1
Hunting is like another holiday here
Grandma and Grandpa giving Olivia the giggles
Bella and Olivia with the pumpkin man -(not sure where the dog fits in)
On Sunday, all of us girls drove down to the fields where the guys were hunting and watched them walk the fields for awhile.
Olivia loved the pheasants-here she is pulling the feathers out of the pheasants.
And now she is trying to put the feathers back in.
Olivia climbing like the monkey she is.
Olivia saw this boy trying to roll the pumpkins, so that's what she did the whole time. We didn't end up taking one home-by the looks of them, I think they had been picked over.
We finally got Olivia to cooperate for the camera and to sit on this big pumpkin-on the pretty side, and smile, and my camera went dead. Go figure.
We ran into a couple of the kids at Olivia's daycare-Graham & Kalyn. They just got their hair sprayed and fixed wild. As cute and festive as it is, I am so thankful that Olivia didn't ask for it to be done with her hair! 
Olivia in the corn maze.
My good college friends and I met up for the night at Holli's in Minneapolis. It's been a couple years since we've all been able to get together. We went out for dinner, told stories, and laughed until it hurt. And then we went back to Holli's and did it all over again. It was such a great time to see the girls again. I'm lucky to have such awesome friends!
