Park Trip

Hello everyone! Ok, so it has been a while since I've blogged - so sorry! Things have been their usual crazy self lately around our home! We've been going to the little gym twice a week and taking walks in the neighborhood when it's nice out and going to the park when we can. Here are some pictures of Olivia and Gracie enjoying the nice weather at a nearby park:

Here are some more pictures of Olivia walking around in my shoes. She LOVES trying to walk/run around in my shoes (and sometimes Grant's Shoes) lately! She is such a ham!

So, let me tell you how Olivia has been doing lately. She's really into repeating everything she hears lately. She's trying so hard to learn as many words as she can lately - she really is like a little sponge! For Easter she got a little Strawberry Shortcake doll and she has been trying sooo hard to say "Strawberry" - but it comes out in about 5-6 syllables! It is really funny! we'll just be talking to each other and then we'll hear Olivia in the back seat or across the room repeat something we just said in her little "Livi dialect" - how funny!

Her favorite foods lately are peanut butter sandwiches - this is her all-time favorite right now! She also loves grapes, mashed potatoes and angel hair pasta from TGI-Fridays. She has been a pretty good eater lately so we think she might be hitting another growth spurt!

She got her first chocolate bunny from the Easter Bunny and has had some of it already - yep, she is a fan! She has worked really hard at saying "Happy Easter" and it comes out as "Happister" - here's a video I took on my phone of her saying it:

Here's a picture of her with her bunny ears that they gave her at daycare, too.

Aside from all of that, we also had a bit of a scare with Olivia this past week. I was supposed to be in the Charlotte area for a project from Wed-Thurs last week and I was scheduled to leave early Wednesday morning. Well . . . about 1:15am on Wednesday morning (Tuesday night) we heard Olivia start a croupy cough REALLY bad and she was wheezing really hard trying to breathe. It went from her being completely fine to barely breathing in a matter of a minute! We rushed her into the bathroom to get her to breathe in some steam from the shower (that is supposed to help with the swelling of the throat). But after about 10-15 minutes, it was just getting worse. She was getting pretty scared and upset, and that was just making it worse, so we packed a bag really quickly and headed out to the ER. (the same ER we went to last time for the same thing). Well, they looked at her and she had full strider (where you can hear a wheezing sound meaning the throat is closing up). So they gave her an oral steroid and an epinephrine breathing treatment. They wanted us to stay 3 hours after the treatment to make sure she didn't rebound, but at about 2 1/2 hours she was really hyper running around the hospital room climbing on everything and acting like someone gave her too much sugar! So, we asked if we could go ahead and go home since Grant had a 7am patient and it was already after 4am. Well, by the time the doctor came to check on her and we got the paperwork it was 5am before we got home. Grant got 1 hour of sleep then had to go to work! I had to cancel my trip and stay home with her - we got a whopping 2 1/2 hours of sleep! (Olivia still woke up at 7:30am!!!) It was a LONG night and a LONG next day, but at least she wasn't admitted to the hospital this time and she was ok the following day (other than being VERY cranky from lack of sleep!)