Happy First Birthday Olivia

On April 29th Olivia turned one. It's amazing how time has flown by. I honestly cannot believe how much she has grown and changed! When she was born she weighed 4 lbs. 14 oz. and now she weighs 17 pounds. She is the cutest little busy body I have ever met. She wants to be moving and doing stuff all day long. She knows a couple words and best of all she knows how to give kisses. She loves when her daddy gets home from work and she loves to wrestle with him every night. She likes to climb into baskets, up the couch, out of the tub, and anything else she manages to climb. She knows when she's doing something she's not supposed to and gets a smile on her face when she knows you're watching her do it! She loves people... and gets mad when complete strangers don't notice or acknowledge her. She's the most stubborn baby I know! She has her own little personality that is so distinct and so her. It's amazing how quickly they become their own person. I can't believe I have a one year old!

5 days old

1 year old

1 year old - climbing

first birthday cake

FINALLY UPDATED

I have finally gotten around to updating our blog. So if you keep scrolling down you can read what we have been up to the last 3 months! Enjoy!!!

January... so far

So far 2010 has been good for us. Olivia is growing and changing everyday and she will be 9 months old on the 29th! She now crawls all over the house and stands up on her own as long as she has something to hold on to. I'm betting that February's post will include video/picture of Olivia walking... so be prepared! She has gotten her 3rd and 4th tooth (on the top) this month as well! She says "ma ma ma ma ma" for mama and "da da da da da" for daddy. She also says "ba ba ba ba ba" for her bottle. She knows what "no" means... but she usually keeps doing whatever she was doing when I say it.

This month Olivia's grandma Kellogg came out to visit for a few days (somehow we forgot to take a picture) and it was fun for Olivia to play with Grandma Debbie. Olivia also loves to watch her cousins Anny and Ellie. She thinks they are hilarious!

Also this month, I FINALLY got around to doing something fun in Olivia's room. To be honest, I kind of wish I could have a pink striped room, but I don't think that Oj would like it! :) So Olivia got it in her room instead!

Happy New Year!

standing up to play with her toys

Olivia's room

Sweet Girl

her favorite kitchen "toy"

December: 8 months

December was an awesome month at the Kellogg home. Olivia is changing so much every day. In December, Olivia began crawling and got her first two teeth (both on the bottom). She also got to meet Santa and spend a lot of time with the Clark and Powell grandparents. Olivia stayed with Grandma Julie while Oj and I spent a few relaxing days in San Diego. It was the first time that I've been away from Olivia since she was born and I think she did better with it than I did!

playing with one of her Christmas presents

playing with grandpa Clark

Opening her first present ever!

meeting Santa... Olivia was so cute with Santa. She just kept looking at him and cuddling with him. It was funny how much she loved him.

Making a mess... little stinker!

November: 7 months old

November was a fun month for Olivia. She was starting to be more mobile and roll around wherever she wanted to be. Her favorite toys at this age were combs, remotes, cell phones, and dvd cases. (We tried to get her to play with regular baby toys!)

We had two Thanksgivings at our house this year. On Thanksgiving day we had about half of Oj's family over and that Saturday we had some of my family over. I made two Turkeys that turned out to be great and well worth the effort! It was so much fun to have our families come and to show them where we are living now.

first pony tail on Olivia's 7 month birthday

starting to sit up on her own

Olivia next to a onesie she wore when she was born (and it was HUGE on her then)

helping mom put clothes away

her cute little Autumn outfit

hApPy HaLloWeEn

This year for halloween Olivia is a Ballerina! HaPpY hAlLoWeEn!

(thanks grandma teresa for the cute tutu!)

6 months old!

On October 29, Olivia turned 6 months old! She is growing up so fast. It's hard to believe 6 months ago she weighed 4 lbs 14 oz. Now she weighs almost 14 1/2 pounds. She is almost to the point where she can sit up on her own... she just falls over once in a while. We love her so much!

Our Home

Oj made this Video 0f our new place.

Kellogg's OJ cereal

Check out this link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xypb5rOwIC0

It's an old commercial for Kellogg's OJ cereal. Ironically enough it came out the same year that OJ was born.

Our soon to be house...

Almost 1 month ago we made an offer on a house. Because it was a "short sale" the offer had to be accepted by the seller and the sellers lender. Today we finally got news that the house will be ours! We don't know any details on when exactly we will close, but it will be within the next 30 days. We are SO excited to be moving into this house!