a fork, knife and a pair of shoes

Yes...my little girl, my baby has decided that she needs to eat with a spoon and a fork. She really loves feeding herself with utencils.  This happened over the past week and she is very good at it surprisingly.  But with that said by no means is she a clean and tidy eater.

Although this picture shows the spoon in her right hand, she tends to favor her left.

Lately Audrey has been walking around the house wearing my shoes.  She has been doing it for months and it has always been pretty funny unless she fell and hurt herself.  The other evening Joe snapped this photo while I was out with a friend. Audrey helped herself into my bedroom and slipped on a camisole top.  Joe found her trying to open the front door to find me.  Pretty cute!

The best thing of the past month by far is Audrey's huge milestone...saying good-bye to diapers!  Yes, she finally did it!  All it took was a huge bribe from mommy and daddy.  Here Audrey is posing with her new kitchen while trying on her flower girl dress for my brothers wedding.  She reminds me of a 50's housewife! 

Olivia turns 1!!!

Life has been whizzing by now that I have returned to work.  But we still have been having fun!  Olivia turned 1 on April 14th, weighing in at 21.5 pounds, and 29" long. She is in the 50% percentile for weight, height and head circuference.  She has developed a spit fire attitude lately.  It is probably a defensive mechanism against her sister who's new past time is beating her sister.

 Watch out Audrey, Olivia is getting ready to retaliate!

The weekend before Olivia's birthday, we celebrated birthdays with 2 of our good friends.  These photos were taken at MY GYM where Avery celebrated her second birthday.

Olivia loved the ball pit!

Olivia turned 1 on Wednesday April 14th.  Since mom and dad had to work, she went to school and celebrated with her teachers and friends.  Teacher Violet threw a birthday party for her, and dad bought pizza in to share.  Olivia had a party with balloons, party hats and presents.  Teacher Violet took lots of photos, but I don't have any on my computer to share.  Here Olivia is modeling her new sunglasses that go with a matching purple out fit that was gifted to her at school.

 And big sister needs to try the glasses on too!

Olivia is loving her new day care.  She gets very excited when we drop her off each morning and has made many friends there.  She has been there for a month now and she has not once cried when we drop her off.  This makes my life so much easier!

Here she is chilling on her new bean bag chair.  Getting ready for the big party weekend.

I think I went a wee bit overboard with Olivia's birthday cake, but it was worth it!!

Olivia is posing with Grandma Romo

 Daddy is walking Olivia around so she can greet everyone

She gets a snuggle from Grandma Kathie

Surprise!  She is playing in the climber. She loves that thing lately, but not to worry she is still to small to climb up and go down the speedy slide.

Time for cake!

Blowing out the candle

 The big cake was quickly replaced with a small smasher cake for Olivia to eat all by herself. It took her 5 minutes before she began to dig in.  All of the other kids were testing their patience. 

Yummy!

Audrey still waiting for her cake!

Don't you touch my cake!!!

After a bath and clean pajamas.  Olivia declares her birthday a huge success!

Easter Weekend 2010

We drove down to San Diego this weekend to celebrate Easter with the Ward family.  We all had a wonderful time and celebrated Easter morning with a lovely brunch at Joe's Aunt's home. 

Saturday morning we went to the San Diego zoo.  We are members and thought it would be a great way to spend the day.  The weather was perfect!

 Near the elephant exhibit Audrey wanted to pose with mommy and Olivia.  This is one of the best pictures I have with my girls.

The girls had a wonderful time!

Olivia was being super cute for the camera!

The elephants were out and about!  There were several that we got to see up close.

Audrey and Olivia had a chance to pose as bugs.

Olivia had her first goat petting experience.  Audrey was excited to share the moment too!

Mama lion was chilling up close.

We has so much fun at the zoo  :)