Dad

Aaron insisted I mark this milestone,right now. Liv just said "Dad", she's been babbling dadadadadad for a few weeks but she was seriously just sitting on the floor looking up at him and he was trying to get her to start babbling and she surpassed what he was asking for. She is also on the verge of crawling. She's been going backwards for a few weeks and she certainly figures out how to get around but now she is on her knees, rocking back and forth and is just about to figure out how to put it all together:)

Liv's 6 month checkup was today. I got to go because I got staff reduced all weekend at work so I was bright eyed and bushy tailed for her 1:30 p.m. appointment:) The verdict: She is in the 98th percentile for height at 27 inches and the 37th percentile for weight, at 15.7 lbs. She is getting over her first cold and her appetite has been decreased over the past week so her true weight is probably a little higher. Little booger is still not eating solids as well as I would like. I'm trying. I just need to find something she loves and get her to enjoy it so she will try other stuff. Today we tried blueberry yogurt and peach puffs. Both of which she spit out and acted like she was being gagged with:(
We got about 8 inches or so of snow over the weekend and Cecelia loves our backyard because as she found we have a pretty good hill for sledding on the garage side of our house. The neighbor kids and her enjoyed a few hours of sledding and I enjoyed watching her have fun:)
This week I'm contemplating going back to school for my masters degree. Yikes!!!

Olivia at 6 months!!!

I know I definitely need to add some pictures to this blog. It's just that I usually update the blog from work (working overnights can get quite boring) and I obviously don't have access to my pictures from my work computer:(

Liv spend the today babbling "dadadadadadad". Aaron couldn't be happier. But I swear she's been screaming "MOOOOOOOOOOM" since she was born! You can't stop this rolling girl. Not only is she rolling ALL over the place she can turn herself around and she "crawls" backwards. Which is actually her attempting to get on her knees and sliding backwards a few inches. Too cute! She officially got her first cold. Running nose, cough and all. Very sad for her because I know exactly how she feels...Cecelia gave me the cold.

Speaking of Cecelia. That little girl is growing up so fast! We spent some time over the last 2 weeks working on her final presentation for 2nd grade. In social studies, they are learning about government. So for their presentations, they had to make a poster and speech (note cards required), describing why they would be a great mayor of Papillion. And if elected, what changes they would like to see.
Cecelia said she would make a great mayor because:
1.)She gets good grades, and helps her classmates (she's a peer coach)
and
2.) Through Girl Scouts she volunteers for community organizations like the Salvation Army (bell ringing this year on the coldest day in November), Safe Haven (making Halloween candy buckets for the kids who couldn't go trick-or-treating because for whatever reason it wasn't safe for them to do so), and for doing canned food drives for donations.

She said that if voted Mayor of Papillion she would:
1.) Build a new swimming pool that would have free admission because Papio doesn't have enough pools and the ones it does have are too crowded (ever been to Papio Bay? Enough said)
and
2.) Make the school days longer but have a shorter school year. This way they wouldn't be rushed during the day to get everything done, and the kids could enjoy a longer summer. A win-win for teachers and students:)

To top it off, we helped her make "Campaign buttons". Hobby Lobby has just about anything you can think of creating. Then we took a picture from the newspaper of President Obama giving a speech and cut a picture of her head out and glued it to Obama's body and glued that to her poster board. Hilarious!

Aaron and I, under my urge, have decided to go on a money diet. I just feel like since we decided to buy a house, our wallets have been hemorrhaging cash. We make enough money to have a good savings and little debt and well, right now we just have the opposite. Little savings and a good amount of debt. I would eventually like to cut down to just 2 days a week when I get pregnant with the next baby and, by eventually, I mean before this next winter. So if that means that I need to price match and pack a lunch for work, I'm willing to do it:)

Cecelia is in brownies this year and is selling cookies, well, actually it seems more like I'm selling cookies! Love them but can't wait to not have them staring back at me begging to be eaten. It is pretty cute to watch Cece selling the cookies and collecting money for them. Good life lessons I suppose.

Liv is rolling around all over the place. You can't leave for more than a moment without her rolling from her back onto her tummy. She gets her arm out just fine from underneath of herself too. She's beginning to learn to sit up with minimal assistance at times but she leans so far forward that it just looks uncomfortable. She continues to sleep through the night for Aaron. She sleeps from about 8-11 and wakes up for a bottle and then sleeps till 8:00 A.M. when I get home from work. On my 4 nights off a week she isn't sleeping throughout the night for me but since we co-sleep I barely open 1 eyeball to nurse her and I'm back asleep. Besides that she wakes up so few and far between even when I am home. I am still getting great sleep.

We continue to add items to the house to decorate it and I love it. It's fun trying to hunt for the perfect items at the best price. Aaron and I are going on a date to dinner in mid-town crossing and then to see Blue Man Group at the Orpheum. I'm excited to get out and have an adult night. And maybe just 1 drink:)

Can we talk about Liv's hand's?

From the very beginning she has been obsessed with her hands. While in the womb, we were never able to get a clear 3D picture of her face because her hands were always in her mouth or she was trying to get them in her mouth. When she was delivered, she came out with her hand by her face yet again. From the minute she came out she sucked her thumb. When we took her to portrait innovations when she was about 1 week old we were only able to get 1 semi descent picture of her because she wouldn't keep her stinkin hands down. And now, everything goes in her mouth but she particularly enjoys her thumb, or any finger for that matter, her binkie, and sometimes she chews on my knuckles:) My sweet baby girl

Christmas 2011

Christmas was amazing. As it is every year. Love the holidays. Next year Christmas is my holiday to work...what am I going to do? I have NEVER worked Christmas in my life:( Maybe if I throw myself of the ground and kick and scream like a toddler I will get out of it.

Doubt it!


I have decided that we might as well celebrate Hanekauh because we can never wait to open our presents. It started out by Aaron letting me pick out my new comforter set for our bedroom...in November. Then when it arrived on the door step I was allowed to open it. Then I gave in to Aaron's ways again when we decided that the girls playing the Wii in the living room constantly was getting pretty old. Actually, Cecelia was constantly trying to get me to dance to Just Dance and Aaron couldn't bear my awesome moves anymore... so we thought we should let them open up the new flat screen T.V. we got them. Then after that it was a slipperly slope. Until Christmas morning, o.k. I won't lie we let the kids open the last of the presents on Christmas eve. The girls had 3 presents and their stockings to dig into left.


I don't know why I am ashamed of this. I really have the urge to let the cat out of the bag and just celebrate the holiday for what it is. The birth of sweet baby jesus, who was born to die. Die because we were loved so much that god would give his only son, so that we could be forgiven for our sins. I also love us giving eachother presents because we love eachother unconditionally and want the best for our friends and family. I really cringe whenever I have to tell Cecelia "Santa this" or "Santa that". I hesitate to tell Cecelia the truth because my sister Nikki, told her son, my nephew Gabe, that Santa wasn't real.
His response: Hysterical tears while calling his mom a liar.
She immediately recanted her statement. She responded that she just said that beacuse she hadn't actaully ever seen him in person.


The older girls played so well over Christmas break together. I think that now that they have more room, and we aren't all on top of eachother any more, everyone gets along a little more cohesively. After Christmas, I got outdoor lights for the house on sale at wal-mart. next year we won't look like the grinches who didn't decorate the outside of the house for Christmas:)