Sesame Street Live!

Tickets to show: $90





Cotton candy and assorted other snacks: $20



Elmo balloon: $10 (yes, TEN dollars for a balloon. I'm a sucker.)



Watching this reaction (sorry it's so dark- look for her white shirt):







Priceless. ;)


And one more video, because it's funny.
Eating pudding:

Happy Easter 2010!

We've had a fun filled Easter week! Tuesday our Mommy's group had an Easter party. It was the warmest day this week- 78! Olivia was a little apprehensive of the games at the party:





She was supposed to be hitting a plastic egg across the room with the spoon. She decided that wasn't very fun, ha!



I attempted to dye eggs with her Thursday. She wasn't interested, until I pulled out the stickers. This girl loooooves some stickers! However, she decided putting them on the door was more fun:





On Saturday, our community association had an Easter Egg hunt. Now, there are approximately 80,000 people that live in Highlands Ranch and at least half of them were at this Easter egg hunt. OK, that might be a stretch, but there were well over a thousand people. We live about 5 minutes away from the rec center where it was located. The signs for the hunt said it started at 10:00 am sharp, so we left at 9:30 am. We ended up parking over a mile from the hunt. By the time we parked, got her in the stroller and walked to the field, it was 10:00 sharp. As in, we were walking up when they said "Go!" and let the kids loose. We quickly got Olivia out of the stroller, walked to the start, and... all the eggs were gone. Seriously. I was amazed. A few people saw Olivia (and lots of other kids!) without eggs and gave her some from their kids baskets (empty). I didn't get many pictures there, obviously. At least it was a pretty day!





Today, Olivia woke up to her Easter basket:



2 chocolate bunnies, a bunny necklace, sidewalk chalk, and sunglasses. The Elmo is there, because we also got her tickets to Sesame Street Live next Sunday! She went after the chocolate first. That's my girl:



We made it to church, but she would NOT stay in the nursery. Wouldn't even get down in the nursery, so she ended up with us in the service. She did pretty well, but halfway through the sermon she started talking, so I took her out. We ate lunch at church and then she got to participate in yet another egg hunt:









She's just not into it. There were eggs EVERYWHERE and she walked right by them to look at a picture on the wall. She ended up with a few. Hopefully she'll be ready next year!









She might not have been interested in looking for eggs, but she quickly figured out how to get them open! She ate so much candy today! A definite sugar high!



That was our Easter! How was yours?

Finished projects and Sparkly shoes

We woke up to this last weekend:





March is normally the snowiest month in Colorado and it's living up to it's name. Luckily, it will snow one day and be 60 degrees the next, so it doesn't stay around long! Michael is usually happy to use his snow blower.
Since it snowed, we decided to put in a new sink. We had a white porcelain looking sink:



That's a really good picture. It was really hard to keep clean and paint was peeling off the bottom.
Here's during:





Olivia helped by wrapping herself in Teflon tape:



The hardest part was moving the garbage disposal, but Michael finally figured it out and here's the new sink:



Nice!

He also finished the toy storage for the playroom:





We got Olivia a little table:



She really likes (coloring on) it!

We went to the mall today to get some sandals. She won't be wearing sandals for a few weeks, but I had a coupon. She's never shown much interest in clothes or shoes, but as soon as I got her out of the stroller to get her foot measured, she made a beeline to a pair of sparkly shoes. Sparkly as in covered in sequins. She managed to get her shoe and sock off and was trying to get her foot in the sample. Silly girl. Needless to say, we left with a pair of sandals AND the sparkly shoes- on her feet.



Miss Independent wanted nothing to do with the stroller. She wanted to show off her new shoes. Every mirror and store front window we passed, she would admire her shoes and say, "Oh, cute," except it sounds like "ah, coot!" I say everything is "cute" all the time, so I guess she picked it up. She made lots of new friends at the mall (and it took us almost an hour to walk from one end to the other, what with all her admiring and admirers!)
I have a feeling we'll be seeing alot of these shoes:



She even carried them around with her when she took off the rest of her clothes:



Yes, that's a potty chair. No, she's not ready. We thought we would give it a try. She thinks it's a new toy. It has a sensor in the bottom that plays a song when you "go." However, she figured out that if she puts her foot in the bottom and covers the sensor, it will sing:



I think I'm going to put it up for a couple of months, so it will be "new" when she's ready.
She follows me everywhere around the house. I was cleaning the bathroom today, when I turned around and saw this:



Her gymnastics teacher was really impressed with her hanging skills. Guess she's practicing!

Happy (belated) St. Patrick's Day!

We enjoyed 70 degree weather for St. Patrick's Day yesterday! It was wonderful. We've had a couple of days warm enough to play outside without heavy coats. Olivia loves to be outside. Michael's birthday was Sunday (the 14th) and we had big plans to go downtown, but it snowed. That's just the way the weather works out here!
Some pictures from the park yesterday. The swings are by far her favorite:



I took her a snack and she wouldn't let go of it for anything! She swung with it, climbed with it, everything. Silly girl.





I had to pry her away. I let her walk by herself beside the wagon and she thought she was hot stuff, until she got tired and gratefully collapsed into her seat. :)



We got home and she enjoyed a favorite past-time of throwing potting soil out of my flower pots:



You might notice she's wearing a hat in every picture. I finished that little spring hat a couple of days ago and she loves it. The first hat she's kept on by herself!





A video of her swinging a few days ago:



And of a daily occurrence:



I was making Michael a birthday cake Saturday while she was playing in her playroom. I could hear her talking to herself, but I wasn't prepared for what I saw when she came around the corner pushing her stroller:



Clothes off (she's recently decided naked is the way to go), necklace on, and a sucker. Classic childhood, right?!

Have a good week!

A Quick Prayer

If you have a minute, please say a prayer for my friend Tina and her husband, Matt. Tina is a friend of mine from college. She had a baby boy, Nathan, the first week of February. He was immediately flown to Vanderbilt for heart surgery. He remained in the NICU at Vanderbilt and had good and bad days. Tuesday was an especially hard day for him and his little body gave out in the early morning hours of Wednesday, March 10th. Tina and Matt are wonderful, sweet, people and my heart is breaking for them. Please keep them in your prayers during this difficult time.

2.4 million and roseola

If you haven't heard, our friend Christian (he works with Michael) won the Colorado lottery. He won 6.7 million, took the lump sum (cut it in half) and after taxes, he ended up with 2.4 million. We're guessing he's going to quit soon. :) We're really happy for him (and a bit jealous!). We're practicing a new phrase with Olivia: "Uncle Christian," ha!

I mentioned in the last post that Olivia had a fever. The fever continued off and on through Wednesday with no other symptoms. I blamed it on teething. We went to the park with Avry and Kacy (Avry's mom) Thursday morning and when we got home, I found this:



She was COVERED in little red bumps. I pretty much lost it and drove her straight to the pediatrician. By the time we got there, they had spread to her face, arms, and legs. Despite my hysteria, the doctor took one look at her and said "Roseola!" Roseola is a pretty common childhood virus. Many children get roseola without the rash, so you never really know if they've had it or not. Olivia was one of the lucky ones that got the rash! Luckily, the rash is the "beginning of the end." She's not contagious, but I didn't want to take her anywhere with the rash. She got a little bored in the house, but found some things to keep her entertained. Like playing with the pots and pans:



Pulling all her diapers out of the basket and trying to stand on her head:



And washing Daddy's face:



We did go to the park today, so she's feeling much better!

Michael got a new saw and Olivia helped him get it set up (it's in the garage now!):





The weather was nicer this week and I took Avry and Olivia to the park:



So glad they can both still fit in one swing!

Some new items for my Etsy shop:



I made the daisy clips to match this shirt:



Love it!