2nd Birthday Party

We celebrated Olivia's 2nd birthday early while we were in Texas. We had a music teacher from Fundamentally Music come to Ducky and Pong Pong's house to lead all the children in singing, dancing, and having FUN! The kids all really enjoyed the parachute, the bubbles, and all the fantastic instruments. We really had a great time and are so thankful for everyone who came to celebrate!

OLIVIA is turning TWO! Party favors

Yes, I am that mom that made her wear the biggest tutu you have ever seen. She loved it!

Music themed decorations

The "clothesline" of our favorite pictures, one for each month, from the last year.

Her party started at 4:30 but after a long morning of shopping with Daddy for some new shoes, we finally had to wake her up at 5:00 to come join her party!

The cousins helping her get dressed!

Music FUN!

Bubbles!

These kids have rhythm!

Happy Birthday to you!

YUM!

With Daddy and Uncle Matt

The Leedy's

Aiden Phillips and Ella Fuller

Uncle Matt and Great Grandfather, Big Jim

FIRST haircut!

We finally thought it was time to take Olivia for her first haircut! Time to say goodbye to the mullet! Olivia was so bald for so long, any hair was great! However, it continued to be all party in the back, just like when she was born. Her curls are too cute, but wild, especially in the Houston humidity!

She was afraid to sit in the fun car chair because there was a strange looking man sitting in the chair right next to it. Olivia continues to be afraid of men if they are in any way a little different...lets keep it that way! She sat in Mike's lap and got her first lollipop, which she loved!! It looks so cute, we love it!

Finished product!

CIRCUS!!!!!

Luckily, we were in Houston the same time as the circus! It was so much cooler than we ever thought. All the Houston gang went and I think everyone enjoyed it. I found out that you can go early to get a behind the scenes look at the animals and goof around with the clowns. That was great fun.

The tigers (I think they were the only animals that didn't seem to be enjoying themselves. All the others truly looked like they loved what they were doing)

The fabulous elephants

Trying on the clown suits

Amazing to watch the elephants.

Olivia played musical chairs the entire time. Just making sure someone else didn't have a better view.

Watchin' the Rain with Uncle Joel

How sweet are these two best of buds watching the rain come down?

Date Night

How lovely are grandparents?!? We really got to take advantage of some "us" time while in Houston with grandparents fighting over the opportunity to babysit. We loved missing our sweet baby girl. Ducky and Pong Pong gave Mike a gift certificate to Mark's for his birthday. We had a blast spending a night celebrating his birthday with an adult only dinner that was delicious!!

Rockort for the 4th

4th of July is HUGE in our family. We are 4th of July people and love celebrating it together down in Rockport every year. This year started off a little shaky. We had planned to come down early with Ducky, but the hurricane tried to scare us away. We risked it and drove down knowing we had no electricity at the time. Thankfully, the power came back on about an hour after we got there. The weather was gorgeous everyday after that.

Olivia, Emery and Delia doing the hurricane/rain dance!

Chillin' with Pong Pong by the pool

The fam...unfortunately, the humidity totally fogged the lens!

Preferring to play with cups and bowls of water over the pool.

Love my Uncle Timmy

Hangin' with Cousins Aiden and Haylie

Doing a little poolside cooking with Cousin Delia

Noodle squirting with Aunt Heather

"Miss Independence"...thanks Aunt Tish for my super cute 4th tutu

Finding seashells

Looking for cranes with Uncle Matt

Driving the boat with Uncle Timmy

Ducky got these super cute coordinating outfits for all of the cousins

The hurricane caused the shore to be a little uneven and I turned around for a second a she toppled in head first. She was not a fan of salt water!

Fun with Daddy

Swimming with "Aunt Zina"

Hammock fun!

And so it begins!

On the way down to Rockport, we hitched a ride with Ducky and her awesome built-in DVD player. I had wanted to wait until Olivia was officially two to start watching tv, but we didn't quite make it. After experiencing pure bliss on the way down with a completely entertained almost two year old, we order a portable DVD player for traveling. The greatest invention known to man for traveling with a toddler!!!!! Olivia has become such a HUGE fan of Elmo in just a short amount of time, it is scary!

Professional Photos

Our computer with all of our pictures from our last trip home is ill. So, once that is feeling better, I will update the blog. For now, here are the pictures we had taken of Olivia for her second birthday!!! I LOVE them! I am so glad we did these during all of the chaos of getting ready for her birthday party the next day! To see the entire gallery visit doe-ee-bird.com, click "view site", click "clients" enter "canada" as the password.

Library

Nonna took Olivia to the library for the first time on Tuesday! She went for toddler story time and had a blast!!!

Loving the BIG bear