Anna's soccer

On the way home from G & G's, Olivia & I stopped in Mitchell to stay the night and watch Anna's last soccer game. They won the game & was fun to see her play!

Week at Grandma and Grandpa Driscoll's

The week before Memorial Day, Olivia and I drove out to my parents for about a week. It was such a great time to get some Grandma and Grandpa alone time. Olivia got spoiled with lots of love & attention! We went boating/fishing, went on walks, went to the park, visited G & G's work to show her off, and relaxed in the backyard. Olivia had all three of us laughing and in tears one night making her silly faces and copying everything Grandpa did. She doesn't miss a beat.

Olivia blowing her bubbles with Grandma

One of her cute fishing hats I tried keeping on her.

The Captain and his Co-Captain

Olivia loved the boat!! Not so much having to sit still in one place, but she did a pretty good job.

Olivia and Grandma relaxing (for all of 2 seconds) in the hammock

Olivia and Grandpa chillin

Olivia's finally starting to sit long enough for a little story time.

Olivia loved Grandma's flowers!

Instead of putting water onto the flowers to water them, Olivia liked to pull off the petals and put them into the watering can.

One cool chic

I got her smiling! I love this picture!

Callen William

A couple weekends ago we went to Algona to meet our nephew Callen William Froehlich. Olivia also got to play with her cousins Lilly, Chloe, and Kaden and Pat got in a couple golf games with his dad, Bill, and Andy. Callen is 3 months old already and cute as a bug! What a good baby too. Olivia just loved seeing a real baby, although we didn't let her get too close-still a little nervous on her biting those smaller than her.

Grandma Froehlich with Lilly and Olivia on the swings.

"Where Elmo?"

The other day I uploaded Elmo videos for Olivia to watch on my computer. Now everytime I open it up, she comes up to me with her arms in wonder of "where Elmo, where Elmo?" I can't resist. Last night and today we cuddled for at least a half hour watching Sesame Street videos. It's the longest she's sat still for anything. She has this new fascination with Elmo-thinking that may be a good theme for Birthday #2.

One day she'll hate me for this one

In the past couple weeks, Olivia has been pointing to her diaper and telling us when she has to "poop" or has "pooped", or is "wet". It doesn't matter where we're at-restaurants, home, friends, etc.-she'll proudly tell us "poop" or "wet". Since she hadn't had a poopy diaper today before her nap at 1, I asked her if she wanted to try to poop on the big girl potty. She got excited and ran right to the bathroom. I sat her on the big toilet first but she didn't like that, so put her on her own potty chair. We tried for at least 5 minutes, but I think she stood up to walk around at least 10 times. We never got the job done, but glad she's getting the concept.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all our family and friends who are mothers, especially our moms, Cindy and Kathee. Thanks for all you do! Hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing day. I got to sleep in until 9 while Pat and Olivia (actually, Olivia ran around the house chasing the dogs) made me breakfast this morning and did all the cleanup. We also drove over to Mankato to do a little shopping and went out to eat at Buffalo Wild Wings. I wish Mother's Day was at least once a month. It was a great day and I am so blessed to have such a wonderful husband and daughter. Being a mother to Olivia is the greatest thing.

Curious Georgia at it again

So yesterday I was in the kitchen finishing up making a casserole, and noticed it was way too quite. My sign that Olivia is up to something she's not supposed to be. I went in her room to find her lying on her changing table playing with her wipes. She figured out how to climb up on the little shelf below it and boost herself over to get on top. I couldn't believe it. I got her down and asked her to show me how she did that but told her she could only do it one more time, just to show mommy. (Yeah right-she's going to be scaling that thing every chance she gets) And there she went-she climbed, grunted, boosted herself, and on top she went. Just like that. I was able to capture our little monkey with just my cell phone-didn't think I should run and get the camera and promote it too much. (thus the sub par quality of the pic) I suppose now since the back is higher than the front, we're going to have to turn the changing table around- just like we had to with the crib.