Thanksgiving Fun!

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great thanksgiving holiday! We enjoyed ourselves. I haven't blogged in a while so I have lots to share. First of all, let me share a little video with you of miss Olivia *eating* her peaches this past week. It is pretty pitiful. She was wide awake and eating away one second, then . . .

Here is Olivia with her new little NC State hat - go wolfpack!!!

We finally got the little one to start giggling again (thank goodness!) and here is a little video of her giggling at Grant. He is running up to her, then running away - she loves it:

Ok, so Grant had to work the day after thanksgiving (BOOOO!) so we couldn't leave town until the weekend. Well, Grant's co-worker (and friend), Olivier also had to work. So he and his wife, Sam, invited us over to their house for thanksgiving dinner. We had a lot of fun and Sam cooked a great dinner. Unfortunately, us girls lost to the boys playing Catch Phrase (don't worry, we'll get them next time!). Here's Olivier and Sam hanging out with Olivia (Yeah, I know - confused yet??)

Here's the little one eating her version of thanksgiving dinner - yummy Hawaiian delight (basically pineapple and bananas mixed together).


Then I let Olivia try some of the REAL thanksgiving foods (sweet potato casserole and mashed potatoes and gravy). She wasn't a big fan of any of it!

Here's just a cute picture of Olivia in one of her cute bath towels.




We went to Grant's parents house for Saturday night to do thanksgiving with them. Here is Nana holding Olivia. Olivia was just fascinated by the little leaves on Nana's shirt. She kept trying to pick them off of it!

Olivia had so much fun hanging out with her cousin, Drew. Here are the little ones playing together. Drew's cheesin' for the camera - what a cheeseball! :)

Here they are playing together with Olivia's Excersaucer that we borrowed from my friend (Thanks Cat!).

The funniest thing happened when we put the 2 babies together to play. Olivia started laughing at Drew, which made him laugh and before we new it, they were just cracking each other up! It was so funny! (See the (Bald) resemblance??) Check it out:

Olivia also got to spend a little time with Sharon when she came over to see the babies.

Olivia is also developing more talents lately. She is getting to be a pro at holding her balance while propped up on something - all by herself. Here's a picture and a video to show you. She is getting so big and we are surprised at all the new things she is learning every day.

Yeah, I know - I did it again - The video is sideways . . .

Other than that, we are just starting to work with Olivia with the baby sign language. My mom had gotten us a book when I was still pregnant and after hearing that baby Gracie is starting to catch on to it, it has inspired me to start working with Olivia. They say that it is good to start working with them between 6 and 8 months and since we think she's so smart (no bias there! ha ha), I'm already starting her on it.

So, that's about all that going on around here. Until next time - take care and we'll write again soon.