Little Owen's Room

So... when I was pregnant with Olivia

we had her room done, finished, complete

(I think you get the point)

by the time I was 20 weeks pregnant.

Everyone says with your second child things are different.

I definitely believe them.

Owen's room still isn't 100% complete.

I mean, come on, Ben just finished painting

and getting the furniture moved in a few weeks ago

and there's nothing on the walls and

we didn't even have a rug or a lamp until yesterday.

Thankfully my mom went shopping

and bought a rug and a really cute lamp.

So here's what his room looks like so far...

Here's his sweet little bed.

I just LOVE his bedding.

I can't believe that I found all of it at Twice Upon A Time

(a consignment store in Lone Oak).

I got the bedding, bumper, valance, diaper stacker & quilt all for $60!

Yeah a really good deal!!

Here's my glider, yes I know that it is pink,

but that was because it was first in Olivia's room

and I had also bought it from Twice Upon A Time

last year for $50!

And it first came from Babies In Bloom... yeah $50.

I can totally deal with the pink. LOL!

Here's his little dresser and his new lamp.

We originally had his changing table on this wall,

but I decided to rearrange last night

and I'm liking the dresser on this wall instead.

Then here's his changing table.

I just LOVE his furniture.

We bought it from a friend of ours for a really good price!

Now only if we can get some pictures on the wall

his little room will be complete!

Olivia Talks to the Christmas Tree

Grandparents

I think Olivia's shirt sums up my feelings about

Grandparents quite nicely...

Who needs Santa... when I have Grandma?

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I don't know about you,

but Christmas is in full swing around our house.

I'm so excited because Olivia has several Christmas outfits

and she can finally wear them! =)

(I'm a nerd, I know). ha!

Here she is from this past weekend...

Is this not the cutest outfit?

My mom got it for her last year at Plaid Rabbit

at their end of the year sale.

I just LOVE IT!!

Sorry for the poor picture quality...

I was using my IPhone.

And then here she is with her "Aunt Allie."

I just love this little outfit too.

I'm so excited because Christmas is just right around the corner.

This will be Olivia's first "real" Christmas where she can actually open her own presents and have somewhat of an idea of what's going on.

This year we will also be welcoming Baby Owen into our lives!

I can't wait.

Yes, we're going to be busy busy busy,

and our hands may be FULL,

but so will our hearts!



Olivia 13 Months

Olivia...

You are now 13 months old!!

What are you up to these days...

You LOVE remotes and cell phones!

You're so funny because you will pick up a remote or cell phone

and put it up to your ear and say "Hi!"

It's the cutest thing.

And just the other night you took the t.v. remote,

pointed it toward the t.v. and changed the channel. ha!

You are one smart little girl. LOL!

You've really started walking more the past few days.

(I'm so glad..

I was starting to think that you were never going to walk).

You look so cute when you walk because you're so little,

it's really sweet to watch.

You also love walking on the couch.

This makes me a nervous wreck,

but you just think it's the greatest thing in the world!

We're trying to break you from your bottle and

so far I think we've done a pretty good job.

You only get a bottle at night before you go to bed

and that's only sometimes.

Other times we can put you in your bed with just your paci

and you go right off to sleep.

At your 12 month check-up the doctor told us to get rid of your bottle and your paci,

but I just can't take everything away from you at one time.

I mean, come on, you do have a little brother on the way

and he's going to have a bottle and a paci,

so as long as we get rid of all of it before you go to school

I'll be happy. ;-)

You're a talking machine!

You just rattle and rattle!

Half of the time I have absolutely no clue what you're saying,

but you sure are telling me about it.

Words that you say the most are:

Hi, Mama, Dada, Bye, Baby, sometimes Bubba, Mimi, Pop Pop (referring to Poppy), sometimes Pa (referring to PaPaw), sometimes Pap Paw.

Those are the only ones I can really think of right now.

And girlie, YOU LOVE TO EAT!!

Whew, you eat and eat and eat!

We've only found one thing that you don't like

and that's the pasta salad from Majestic.

Your daddy gave you some the other night

and you took it out of your mouth.

I was in shock because usually you'll eat anything. Ha!

You are really starting to like your sippy cup.

You LOVE water and your now starting to like juice a little more.

You're just growing up too fast!

It's hard to believe that your 13 months old

and in just another month you're going to be a BIG SISTER!!

WOW!

We're definitely going to have our hands full!

But I wouldn't trade it for the world!

We love you sissy girl!!

You make our lives COMPLETE!

Mommy & Daddy

Blogging Hiatus

I apologize for the unintentional blogging break,

but to say that we have been busy is an understatement.

We have been running on full-speed for the past couple weeks...

I'm ready for things to slow down so we can just relax,

but I'm not really seeing an end in sight at the moment.

Anyways, I hope that you had a great Thanksgiving!

I know we sure did.

We spent Thanksgiving over at Ben's parents and it was DELICIOUS!!

His mom always makes the absolute BEST turkeys

and this year was nothing short of it!

The food was SOOOO GOOD! (As it always is)! =)

Olivia enjoyed some of it too.

I think she had some dressing, mashed potatoes and deviled eggs.

She's a bottomless pit! ;-)

I thought she looked pretty cute in her turkey attire. =)

Thursday night (Thanksgiving night),

we went started our Christmas shopping.

My dad kept Olivia for us.

We started at 10:00 Thursday night

and finished around 6:00 Friday morning.

Just a word to the wise..

this is NOT something you do when you're 34 weeks pregnant!

I took a couple of naps in the car in between places,

but geez it liked to have killed me!

I'm so glad that Austin and Allie went with us

because there's NO WAY that we could have gotten everything done

by ourselves!!

We went to Toys R Us, Kohl's, Wal-Mart & Sears...

That's all, and yes it took ALL night!

Crazy, I know!

But I have to look on the bright side,

my Christmas shopping is now DONE!!

WHOO HOO!!

Now all I have to do is wrap all the presents,

any takers?

Wordless Wednesday

Happy Hump-Day!