My coolest baby gift!

I think this is the coolest baby gift I have ever gotten... a three tier diaper cake! Love it!

Most amusing ad that I have seen in a while...

Product: Yes To Carrots

Slogan: Nourishing organic fruits and vegetables blended with purifying Dead Sea Mud give your hair and skin a deeply delicious glow.

Available at Walgreens

(Actually when I read it the first time I thought it said "purifying Deep Sea Mud," even better, right? Purifying Dead Sea Mud?!! Are they really serious?!)

Weighing in

So we were curious to see how much weight Olivia has gained in the last week, and we rigged up our own baby scale. One digital kitchen scale, one cookie sheet, and one towel and ... Voila! A baby scale! We even zeroed the weight out so that the cookie sheet, towel and diaper were not included in Olivia's official weight seen on the read-out. So she's now...

About 7lbs. 10oz., give or take a kick, wiggle or other baby movement that made the reading change some.

This is one of my favorite pictures so far of her with her eyes open.

Bath Time!

So Olivia had her first bath tub experience recently. We have done sponge baths up to this point, but I had to wait till Robby got over being sick so that he could participate in the first tub bath proceedings. Let's see what Olivia thinks...

Pre-bath baby...



Now for bath time! (The video is kind of dark because our camera does not do very well picking up interior lighting... no, we don't live in a cave. :))

Do we have to do this?!

Boy, I barely survived that ordeal!

Fresh, clean, and kissable!

Now, that wasn't so bad, was it?!

I will tell you that she liked her second bath much better. Unfortunately, we didn't take pictures of that one. Maybe it was because Little Robby and Jenna cheered her on the second time.

Meet Olivia

I thought everyone might enjoy seeing a videoclip of Olivia.

She is pretty sweet, isn't she?

Jenna's Pig

Jenna loves to draw, and will sneak paper and pencils whenever she can. I much prefer that she develop her artistic skill on the magnadoodle, though, so that I don't have to worry about artwork spilling over onto the floor. The day we got home from Utah, Jenna was thrilled to play with all of her toys again and was very enthusiastic about drawing on her magnadoodle. While she was hunched over her masterpiece, she exclaimed to us, "Pig!" She was so excited that she drew a pig, and we thought it was a pretty great picture. So, here is Jenna's pig...

I know, he's missing his front leg.

And I guess the squiggles off to the side are his slop. You have to admit, it's very cute!

Rocket Science

This post should have been posted weeks ago, but we had our surprise arrival so I didn't get a chance. Back at the beginning of January, Little Robby's science class did a model rocket launch. Each of the kids got to put together their own model rocket and paint it the way they wanted. Robby opted for a simple gold exterior for his rocket. They had been working on these rockets on and off for several weeks. When school started back after the Christmas break Little Robby told me of the scheduled launch day, and Dad, Jenna and I decided to come watch the fun.

The only disappointment was that the camera was almost completely out of battery power, and so we were only able to get one picture before it died. I had wanted to film the launch and then let Jenna give you a commentary on what happened. That would have been very cute! Oh well, I guess I need to do a better job about making sure the camera bag has a fresh set of batteries all the time. Even so, as spectators, Dad, Jenna, and I enjoyed it...

And Robby and his classmates had a blast!