Boom!

Poor Livi.  Last night after her bath, she got her normal crazies where she wants to run around wild instead of having story time.  I was standing in the living room with her book heading back to the couch when Livi came running out of the bedroom and right past me into the sunroom.  A second or two later we heard a loud thump, then the silence of the impending loud scream that would happen after she took her next breath.  We ran to her and saw that she had tripped on the dog’s pillow and landed face first into the sliding glass door track.  Just in time for Christmas pictures.

This morning she seemed fine, except she kept touching her cut.  It doesn’t seem to bother her too much though at least.  Hope it goes away soon!!

 

The Zoo

Sunday we finally got a chance to bring Olivia to the Zoo.  We decided to go early and not wait for the afternoon after her nap to get a good amount of time there.  We got to the zoo around 10:00, met Mima there and started our little zoo adventure.  Olivia was pretty tired to begin with and we had her in her stroller for the first 45 minutes.  She didn’t seem to care too much about anything, but did smile and say some of the animal’s names.  We decided after we got into the reptile building to let her run around and see stuff instead of being stuck in the chair.  This is what she really wanted and after that she had a great time.  We saw all kinds of animals and the weather was perfect.  She got to ride a carousel again and loved it.  She got to feed giraffes and have birds sit on her head.  When we bought the little cup of nectar for the bird area we had no idea how close the birds would come.  The lady said “go in and hold on to the cup tight.”  As soon as we walked in the birds swooped and were all over us.  Livi was pretty tolerant until two landed on her head, after that it was a little much and she started squirming.  I passed her off to Brooke and the birds stayed with me, except on that stayed on Livi’s head for the rest of the time, but I don’t think she noticed.  We just couldn’t stop laughing.  It was a great day at the zoo and plan on going again for sure.

 

More Birthday Videos

Here are a few more videos of Livi’s 2nd birthday party.  I also forgot to mention that Saturday night after we got home from the party, I put Olivia on the potty as usual, and she pooped.  One giant step for Livi, and she laughed and loved it.  I was very surprised.

This video was from before we headed down to Mima and Boto’s house.  We decided to open a few gifts in the morning so we didn’t have to transport them back and forth between our house and Lexington.

 

This video is at Mima and Boto’s house.  It also features the famous singing card that Livi could not put down!!

Happy 2nd Birthday

Saturday Olivia turned 2 years old.  She could even tell you if you asked her how old she is that she is “two.”  She is becoming such a big girl.

Friday afternoon Mom and Dad got into Clinton to spend Friday and Saturday with Livi before heading back home Saturday evening.  They got some good Livi time in Friday evening before bedtime.  Saturday morning they came back to our house and played with Olivia before her nap time.  After nap, we all headed down to Lexington to have Livi’s part at Mima and Boto’s house.  We opened presents, which started with a musical card that captured Olivia’s attention for a long time to where we had to hide it so the opening could continue.  Who knew that a music card would make Olivia NOT want to open presents.

After presents, we had dinner and birthday cake.  It was a long day for Livi but she had a great time.  Happy Birthday Lee!!

Pumpkin Carving

First off, we visited a friend Sunday afternoon that had two puppy labs.  They were a little wild and had sharp puppy claws, and one gave Olivia a bearhug from behind and caught the right side of her face with its claw and caused a pretty long scratch.  Livi is fine and it will heal pretty fast, but that is the scar you see in the following pictures.

Olivia got to help carve her first pumpkin Sunday.  She was actually pretty good at cleaning it out.  She wasted no time getting her hands dirty and squishing around in pumpkin pulp.  She even tried a seed, but didn’t like it too much.  She also tried eating the pumpkin’s eye, but again, didn’t like it.  After we were done, we lit it up and kept it on the dining room table during her night time routine.  Unfortunately since Halloween was Saturday night here, we just carved this on Sunday then threw it out that night.  Kind of a waste but Livi loved it.

Praying to the Pumpkin Gods