Science Museum, Tinkerbell and Tub Dancing!

Hello again! I wanted to thank everyone that has reached out to me to offer support, advice and recipes to help me along! I really appreciate it. I am doing quite a bit better. It has taken me a couple weeks to start to feel better and now I think it's safe to say that it is all up from here! I have seen a specialized nutritionist and I have an appt in a couple weeks with a GI specialist at Duke to help me out. But so far, I have been off gluten for 2 weeks (with a couple mis-steps!) and am starting to feel much better. Still have a little bit to go - but at least I know I'm going the right direction!

And now back to Olivia's updates. We took her to the science museum last weekend and she had a great time! She loved all the animals and butterflies and bugs. But, every bug or animal that had teeth, she made sure to warn us that they might "bite you!" ha ha!. That's one of her new things - ever since she had a mosquito bite and we told her she had a little bug bite - she now believes that everything will bite!

(ignore my expression in this picture!)

She LOVED the dinosaurs and was so excited to come see them!

We also finished up the summer semester at The Little Gym. Here is a video from her last class. We have already signed her up for the fall semester. She loves her Little Gym!

Then this past weekend I had gotten some free passes to see the new Tinkerbell movie and I invited Sara and Gracie to come along with us. The girls were so excited when it was first starting - they were dancing and yelling "I see Tinkerbell" (yes in the middle of the theatre!) - but it was very cute. Gracie made it about an hour into the movie - Olivia about 10 minutes past that. But I still think it was worth going (especially since it was free!). The girls had fun (until the melt downs) and they even got free posters! This was Olivia's first movie at the theatre and she did pretty good.

Here are some pictures and a video from the movies:

Grant and his guys went out of town this past weekend to do their fantasy football crap . . . uh . . . I mean draft! So Sara and I were on our own with the girls - and we were throwing our friend Harmony a baby shower on Sunday (for her TWINS!) - so my wonderful mom came up to watch the girls while we went to the shower (since our babysitter backed out). Sara and Gracie spent the weekend at our house for the most part so we could make the cake for Harmony and get everything ready. It was a very LOUD and Crazy weekend, but we enjoyed ourselves (and were glad when things settled back down!)

Here's a picture of the girls:

This last video is so funny! Olivia and I were getting ready one morning and I let her "shower" with me (I shower, she bathes at the back of the tub - then I get out to get ready and she plays). I had my radio on and she was having a great time dancing and singing - check it out:

Too cute! Anyway, I'll try to be better about blogging more often now that things are starting to settle down. Until next time - keep in touch!