I have not blogged in a while because we have been in Mississippi with Marcus' parents and they don't have the Internet. The other reason is because I have not been able to find my usb cord for my camera. But I did go to walmart and have all the pics on my camera put on a disk and that is what I am using to blog today. The only problem is that I can't rotate the pics so I have other pics but these are the only ones I can upload right now. I wanted to put these on because I think she looks like such a big girl with her hair in french braids. I really just wanted to let everyone know we are alright and if I don't find my usb cord I will buy a new one this week.

Everyday I spend with livi amazes me. I may be bias, being her mother and all but I really think that she is the smartest 20 month old I have ever met. She talks so well and she picks out the words she knows in books. And she is soo funny but most of all sweet. She grabs my face and tells me she loves me and gives me a kiss. But anyway,Marcus and I took livi to Moody Gardens Aquarium and she enjoyed it. She loves Nemo and she saw the fish that looks like Dori and she just kept yelling Dori, Dori over and over again. So below are some of the pics we took.

GREAT GRANDMA'S BIRTHDAY

Friday, May 28th was my Granny's (Olivia's great Granny) Birthday. We went to Galveston to take her to lunch and help her celebrate. Olivia had so much fun, after lunch we went for a walk on the beach and we stopped by Bow's (one of Olivia's great aunts) job. The pic above is Olivia and Granny being silly on the beach.

AT THE POOL

The pool in our subdivision opened for the summer on Memorial Day weekend, we went last Friday for the first time. Olivia had so much fun playing in the water. They have four different areas in the pool. There is a Splash pad for the little kids with all kinds of things shooting out water. Then there is a little kiddie pool that is about 1.5in deep. A regular pool that goes from 4 feet to 8 feet and the lap pool that goes from 3 feet to 6 feet deep. I think she liked the kiddie pool the best, but she enjoyed going around the lap pool in her float also.

Olivia in the Parking lot of the pool before we went in.

Olivia and her daddy in the lap pool and Olivia by herself in the kiddie pool.

Olivia floating around the big pool.

Drying off after we got out of the pool. She loved these little chairs that were by the pool. It was right on the ground so it was easy for her to get in and out of.

THE PARK

Olivia loves to be outside so today I took her to the park and she enjoyed herself except for the part where it rained. We played football and this is a pic of her running with the ball after she caught it.

A lot of stuff

I know it has been along time since I posted anything so I am trying to catch up a little. Olivia is doing great, she just had her 18th month check up and shots. Her doctor said that she is developmentally advance and very healthy. She is 33 in tall and weighs 25lbs, she has gotten to be such a big girl.We have been busy so I decided just to put a few thing up so....

MOTHER'S DAY

Olivia and two of her grandma's on Mother's Day before church G-Ma and My Dear. Olivia hand made all her grandma's Mother's Day cards as well as envelopes. Sorry I didn't get a picture but I will for Father's Day.

After church we went out to eat and of course there was a wait so we took some pics while we waited. The top is Olivia in her Mother's Day dress walking around eating a cracker and her offering me a cracker while I am trying to take her picture. The bottom right are my sister, my mom, and I. On the left of course is Marcus (hubby) and I

PLAYING OUTSIDE & AT THE PARK

This was not a special occasions or anything, we were just playing in the backyard and I thought she looked so cute in her glasses.

There is this park that is about a mile away from us and Olivia loves to go there. I took some pics of her playing, it's amazing how big she has gotten since the first time we took her there.

This was also nothing special I just thought she looked like such a big girl with her baseball cap on. She also had her little ponytail sticking out of the back of the cap.

The past month has been so busy. Olivia has been a lot of places, too many to blog about each one so I decided to just upload some pics from some of our outings. We also went back to Dallas this past week but I didn't have my camera so I didn't get any pics but we did get to see all our friends that we miss so much. One of the places we went was to the kids fest in Downtown Houston. Olivia enjoyed herself. She got her face painted and so really cute wings that light up and her first taste of caramel apple.

The same day we figured since we were down town we should head on over to Minuet Made Park and watch an Astros game. That was Olivia's first Baseball game and she actually watched it.

The next weekend we took Olivia to Schlitterbahn because she loves the water. She looked too cute in her little cover up and her sunglasses. They had a lot of slides for to go down and I went down two with her. She really enjoyed riding through the water on her daddy's back.

We got her a golf set and she loved it, Marcus had to show her how to hold the club. As you can see she had no problem with her golf bag.

And to top things off we went to Shakespeare in the Park. Olivia loved it because people had their dogs there and she could walk around.

Easter in Mississippi

We went to Mississippi for Easter to see Marcus' side of the family. The drive from Houston is about 10 hours and Olivia did well on the way there. We watched YBCR twice, Yo Gabba Gabba, and Princess and the Frog. We were happy that my sister went with us so she could entertain Olivia and help drive. We got there the Wednesday before Easter and left the next Friday. Olivia really enjoyed seeing her grandparents and her cousins. Everyone was so excited that she could and did call them by their name. Marcus' dad is a pastor so we went to his church for Easter.

Olivia ran around so much before church that she fell asleep in the car on the way to church.

Marcus, Olivia, and I after church.

Olivia
had a lot of energy after church because she took her nap during church. When we went out to the car she saw her ball and wanted to kick it around in the front of the church.








Olivia and I looking at her new ducky book she got in her Easter Basket.

Marcus' dad has a four wheeler and my sister wanted to drive it. She did really good for her first time. We let Olivia ride on it with her and she had so much fun. We thought she would be scared but she wasn't.

Visit from some Friends

We had a visit from our good friends Lana and Madelyn. We were so happy that they wanted to see us while they were here in Houston. On Thursday we all went to Houston's Children's Museum. I think the girls had a lot of fun. They played in the water and they went shopping at the little HEB. It was so good to see them and I know that Olivia was happy to see Madelyn.

On Friday we went to Wonder Wild. I had been wanting to take Olivia there for a while but with Lana and Madelyn in town it was a good time for us to check it out. They had a lot of things for the girls to climb on and in. I think the girls had a lot of fun. It was this really big slide and I think the moms had more fun going down it than the girls. It was also this big thing in the floor filled with air that you could jump on. That is what Olivia is sitting on in two of the pictures below.

This place was big and Olivia and I climbed all the way to the top and went down the big slide.

Olivia inside after we climbed up to the top.

You operated these train cars by using your hands to peddle. Madelyn enjoyed it more than Olivia. The next pic is livi climbing up the stairs she got tired half way up and just sat there.