Olivia made her church debut!

I was so excited to take Olivia to church for the first time today. We waited extra long to bring her to church because she was so petite when she was born, and because she had been very congested the last week and a half. I was so glad that her congestion cleared up because I kind of enjoy bringing my new babies to church for the first time. It was especially fun this time because I had one sister who I don't know that well very puzzled when she came up to me. She said, "Is she yours?" I said, "Yes, we adopted her 7 weeks ago." "Oh," she replied, "That makes me feel better because I was thinking I don't remember seeing you pregnant. How could you have been pregnant and I not noticed?!"

I also had a friend who came up and complimented me on looking so good for just having had a baby (she knew Olivia is adopted, but I did wonder if there was anyone within earshot that heard her and didn't know Olivia is adopted.) They did announce Olivia adoption in our ward the first week end after placement, but our ward is still so new that I don't think many people knew by name who we were.

Anyhow, it was so good to go back to my ward today!

Here is Olivia worn out from her adventures at church.

Flashback - For comparison, here is Olivia from our very first night with her. This was taken even before we left the LDSFS office. Hasn't she grown!

Back to today...

Jenna just can't resist a photo op with her sister.

This isn't a great picture (sorry about the shadows, that is me), but I took it so you can see how cute Olivia was in her first Sunday dress. I bought this dress the first week we had Olivia, and she couldn't even wear it then because she was so tiny. Today it fit perfectly. Too bad I know it won't fit for long!

BTW, this is my 200th blog post!

Science Fair

Li'l Robby and his team had the joy of winning 5th place in the team category of the school science fair! He was so excited to win something. I won't go into the whole story of science fair torture... oh, did I just say that? I mean science fair adventure. Let's just say that I am already thinking... And I have to suffer through this how many more times?! Three kids times how many science fair projects?! And I want more children, so it will be more than three kids times how many more science fair projects?! Actually we got the easy end of the stick because the boy pictured below is the one who assembled the display board with his mom till 1 in the morning. So a BIG thanks goes to Daniel and his mom! That was the silver lining to doing a group project. But to be honest, we would rather not do a group science fair project again so we don't have to coordinate with others to make it happen. I know we will have plenty group projects in the future. Anyway, I do want to wish Li'l Robby many congrats on his science fair success!

There was one other boy named Jeffery who was part of the team, but he was unable to attend the award ceremony.

The Olivia Update

Since I didn't get to post anything about Olivia last week I thought I would give a brief update and a picture for you to enjoy. She is a little angel! On Friday, I weighed her and she weighed 9lbs 11oz! She has almost gained 4lbs since birth! Wow! It's a good thing we don't keep up that growth rate through our whole lives or else we would all be massive! Although this is a sleeping picture, Olivia has been more and more alert during the day, and she even seems to complain now when she wants to be held. It's amazing how little babies learn to communicate their desires when they are so young. Olivia had been very congested in the last week and a half or so, but fortunately she seems to be over it now. Li'l Robby was sick from Sunday to Wednesday of this last week and he was forbidden to be anywhere near Olivia because I certainly don't want her sick with an upper resperitory illness. So far no one else has come down with it (not even Jenna who could not stay away from brother despite being warned over and over that she would get sick if she got too close!) Back to Olivia, she is doing pretty well with sleeping... at night we have reached the point that she will go about 5 hours between feedings during one period of the night. If I time things right, then she only wakes me once at night. It's so nice. (But, of course I have to admit that I am still looking forward to the day when she really sleeps through the night!) Well, enough talk, here's our little angel baby...

Tummy Time Exercises

Tummy time! Olivia actually doesn't complain to much when we put her down on her tummy. I think she likes to see the world from a new perspective.

Hello everyone!

We think it is funny that she lifts her feet when she is trying to lift her head. Very cute! She reminds me of a little airplane!