Puppy Kisses XOXO

Let me just start by saying that the above picture is B-E-A-U-TIFUL! $1.93? Yes please! I doubt it will last long so I will enjoy it while it is here. I hope that some of you have also had low gas prices :D

This is my first post of 2015. I have thought about posting the last two nights but have been too tired and there really has not been all that much to say. So instead of rambling about baby facts and nonsense that you probably do not care about, I decided to sleep instead :) Olivia and I have been over to uncle Jon and Ben's house the last two days. But not to see them... go figure. Yesterday we stopped by to pick up a gift and ended up spending time with Katie and today we went to see grandpa Cole, Lauren, Ryan, and Jesika. My dad drove Ryan and Jesika back to school and Lauren just came along for the ride. Even though it was just for a couple of hours, we loved seeing you both!

We have discovered that Olivia DOES NOT like beards. HAHAHA!!! Seeing as how my dad, Ben, and Ryan all have beards and she cries whenever they hold her. It really is rather cute though. She starts with the lip which is followed by tears a short time later.

Katie has a do named Mollie and Mollie LOVES to give Olivia kisses. She also seems to think that Olivia is strong enough to throw her toy for her to fetch. Olivia really loved the puppy. Someday she will have a dog but she is enough of a handful that I do not need a dog at the moment. However, I may have told Mike that when we buy a house that we can get a dog :/

KISSES XOXOXOXOXO

Mollie would bring the toy over and bounce it on Olivia's bottom a few times before just setting it down on top of her hoping that she would pick it up. It was really cute.

While my dad was holding Olivia and she was crying, I put her binky in her mouth and tried to clip her binky clip (see in the pictures above) to her onsie. All of a sudden, she started WAILING! I took the binky and my dad pulled down the onsie and I had pinched her skin with the clip. OUCH! Poor baby girl :'( I felt so bad. But after a few kisses and I little snuggling, she was okay. She is as trooper! Especially seeing as how she was sitting at Katie's feet while she stood and Olivia decided to grab and yank on one of Katie's toes; as Katie was trying to figure out what was going on, Olivia face planted... There was no crying and no tears; just a small red spot right above her eye. 

The pictures below are of my trying to get Olivia to take a nap without her swaddle blanket. The other day it took me about an hour to get her to stop screaming so that I COULD swaddle her and I finally got her to fall asleep on the couch with me and she ACTUALLY SLEPT for 3 hours! WOOHOO! Sleeping with Mike on the couch does not work. He says that he feeds her, swaddles, puts her in the rocker, and as soon as he picks it up to swing her, she is OUT! It is different for everyone.

While Olivia napped today, I had to run over to my office and grab some papers and my breast pump that I left there yesterday. I decided to swing by Value Village to look for some clothes on my way home because it is time that I retire my maternity clothes :/  I knew that I would eventually start shopping at consignment shops and thrift stores for her clothes because... BABY CLOTHES ARE EXPENSIVE AND THEY DON"T EVEN WEAR THEM THAT LONG! Look at what I found for baby girl! A 12 month Adidas jacket! It is too big for her now but it was only $5! And there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. SWEET! Let the deal hunting begin :D

I feel like I have done a lot of "yelling" in this blog. Sorry! Well, by yelling I mean lots of bold  and CAPITALS. :D Lots of smiley faces and exclamation points. Maybe I am just excited. I am also feeling like blogging is a chore some times. That is just not right... It may be because I feel like there is nothing worth blogging about. It could also be because I think that I am finally getting hit with postpartum depression. Probably a little of both. Maybe I just need to get out and do more of the things that I say I am going to do, like the Quiet Book. Because the Seahawks do not play tomorrow, I will hopefully have time to pick patterns and look for coupons. I'll have to do it before we go back to Jon, Ben, and Katie's for GAME NIGHT! Game night is always awesome :)

Here are a few more photos of cutie pie just because <3

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