A photo shoot:

This poor little girl has been front and center in hundreds of photographs pretty much since the second she was born. I am not sure if I should call her poor because really she has to be something special if someone wants to sit and take pictures of her all day. I am so happy I have my baby girl. Photo shoots and dress-up are common activities we do during the day. Sometimes I change her clothes in the middle of the day, not because she had a leaking problem, but just because she really is my little doll. Here are some sample photos of one of our photo shoots. I think she is starting to enjoy them!

Loving our baby girl

I can't even explain to you how much fun it has been to have our baby girl. We are so in love with her. We have loved getting to know her little personality which for such a little person she has quite the strong one. I think she's a good mix of her mom and dad. Yikes!
This little girl knows exactly what she wants and how to get it. Even if it means fake crying and coughing!
She has started to imitate me a little bit which I love. I make this little sound with my lips (hard to explain) anyway and she will do it right back!
Yesterday, I was blowing on her tummy and she let out a little laugh. It was the cutest little hahaha I have ever heard.
And one of my favorites...
She gives kisses. When I tell her to kiss me and bring her up to my cheek she opens her mouth and puts in on my cheek. Oh I just love it!
Anyway, here are a few pictures!

We bought her a bumbo chair the other day. Seriously best invention ever! She looks so cute in it because she is still so small. She loves being able to watch everything going on. She is really good about holding up her head but she still gets a little tired sometimes so she doesn't sit in it for long. Hopefully in a few weeks she will be ready for a longer sitting!

We started her on rice cereal! Her 4 month isn't for another few weeks but I thought we would start her on it anyway. She nurses pretty much all the time. So I worried that my milk just wasn't enough for her. Anyway, she loves it. She only eats 5-6 little spoonfuls but she will open her mouth and try and lick it off the spoon! Even though she has been eating rice cereal she still nurses a lot. It must be more of a comfort thing.

Snuggled up in her swing!

Snuggled up in her mom and dad's bed! Bad I know.

Just a cute happy face!

Favorites:
Our little Olivia is not a very social one. She definitely is picky about who gets to hold her and for how long. She pretty much always wants her mom. However I think she has found herself a little friend who she seems to just love and will seriously let him hold her forever. Whenever we go over to my parents house or when we go my dad's work he will come up to her and start talking to her. She immediately gets the biggest little smile on her face and just starts flopping her arms and legs around with excitement. She loves talking to him and makes her cute little cooing sounds. I just love watching her with him. Although I might have to admit I am a bit jealous because she doesn't ever act as excited to see me!

Videos

So I have a few videos of Olivia that I wanted to post on here but apparently they are too big. So I posted them on facebook! If you go to my profile you will find them:)

Her blessing day

Olivia Alexandra was blessed on Sunday January 2, 2011.
It was a beautiful blessing.
She was awake the whole time just staring up at her dad.
I think she knew that she was getting something special.
Michael said he didn't dare look at her because he knew he would start crying.
We love this baby girl so much and feel so blessed to be her mom and dad.

(Sad...there should be more pictures but she was a bit fussy and before I had a chance to take pictures decided she would have a little leak in her diaper. Luckily I was able to get these!)

A much needed update:

For those few who read this get ready because this is a long post! So much happens every day and so many pictures are taken. Mostly of Olivia of course!

Just a cute picture of our baby girl all ready for bed!

So since we would be in Washington for Christmas, my family decided to have an early Christmas celebration.

We opened our presents and had an amazing dinner. Olivia got some really fun toys!
I love Emerson's face in the background and who knows what my boy is doing.

I got some really cute boots! He got some nice sweaters and a video camera. I am very excited about this present. I guess it's mostly mine since I will use it more.

Michael and I gave Olivia a few of her presents since they were to big to take in our bags. We are excited for her to be able to play with them. She is still too small but loves looking at the lights on them.

Since we don't go to church (because of the germs) we decided to dress her up in one of her cute dresses!

It was very fun spending time with my family. I was so excited to give Olivia all her presents even though I am sure she had no idea what was going on. It was also hard realizing that I wouldn't be with my family on Christmas but we were very excited to go up to Washington.

So the day before we left, Michael took my ring in to get polished. When he got back he gave me a rose and a note and then got down on one knee and asked me to marry him again haha. It was adorable. I love it when he gets all romantic.

So we finally made it to Washington. It was quite the adventure flying with a baby. We definitely struggled getting there but after about 12 hours of flying, sitting in airports, and driving we made it!

Aunt Sarah holding Olivia. It was her first time meeting her. She was such a great help and loved to hold her. I am sure they will be little buddies!

It was uncle Matthew's first time meeting her also. It was funny because he was the one who was constantly asking to hold "it." We told him he couldn't hold "it" unless he called her a she or her or something besides "it". Well I'm afraid that the replacement name he came up with was not much better...old man turtle haha.

Her are a few cuties of this baby girl:

We acted out the nativity and of course the 3 of us were Joseph, Mary, and baby Jesus. Olivia was a bit more behaved during the actual acting out part.

Christmas morning!

With her Grandma Kelly on Christmas morning.

Watching movies! I saw Dispicable Me and Toy Story 3 for the first time. I really liked them.

Michael and I bought tetris on my cell phone. We are seriously addicted.

Napping with my baby girl. She is so cuddly.

She loves sleeping with things over her mouth and face. Usually it is her arm or hand. Sometimes if I am holding her she will turn her head so that her face is directly on my arm. It's kind of funny.

Daddy and baby girl sleeping. She seems to nap better when she is not alone.

I love this picture.

Michael's brother Stephen planned a poetry reading. Michael was so excited about this.
He took it quite seriously by making sure he was all dressed up in his dad's suit coat.

We are now home.

We went to dinner at Chili's on New Year's Day with my parents, Michael's parents and his brother. This was Olivia's first time out. Well out of her car seat. I usually only take her out when I know she will be asleep that way I can keep her covered. But this time she decided she wanted to wake up and get out so I had no choice. She loves grandpa John.

Aunty Sophie loves Olivia. She is always talking to her in this really funny voice.

Michael and baby girl all ready to cheer the buckeyes to victory in the Sugar Bowl.

Sadly, her little buckeye outfit is getting a little too small so we had to keep the bottom unsnapped to prevent them squishing her chubby little legs. She loved watching the game and at the end when it got quite intense she stared at the t.v. the whole time.

Her little neck is so chubby that we hardly get to see it unless we lay her on her tummy. She will lift her little head up and stick her neck out like a little turtle and look around. It's adorable.

She is 3 months now.

She has become quite the smiler. At first I thought she was going to just be a really serious baby because she hardly smiled but now she does it all the time. I love it and can't wait to hear her little giggle.

Uncle Winston picked out these little pajamas for her. It was fun to see her in blue since she mostly wears pink of course.

We had an amazing holiday spent with amazing family.
We could not be more blessed.
We are excited for this new year and all the laughs and memories we will share.

P.s. I just wanted to announce that my boy got a 4.0. I could not be prouder.
P.s.s. Olivia got blessed on Sunday January 2nd. Pictures to come.