Thanksgiving

This year, Olivia helped me mash the sweet potatoes for my casserole :) It was fun! We had a busy day, first making the dish, then lunch at Aunt Margie's, playtime with her 3rd cousins, hospital visit to see Grandma Holland, then back to Nana & Papa's for dinner and to see Grandpa Quinn.

Amanda brought Lauren over Friday for dinner and a visit since they were in town and Cari and Ben, and Aunt Angie came too! O and L got along great and played until they were both worn out!

Saturday was a lazy day at home and today Brian and I went to church while Ang kept O. The rest of the day flew by too quickly for it's back to work and daycare tomorrow after a nice, long weekend :(

This week, Monday is PT for Liv, Wednesday is OT & ST, I have an OB/GYN appt on Thursday, same day as Bri's followup on his foot. Then Friday is Liv's botox appointment with Dr Brown in Radford. Brian and I are both going. I'm very anxious to see how much it helps her right arm muscles relax...we'll have to work with her every day to use that arm more once it kicks in. She'll still see Cynthia for OT once/week for now, even after the botox. Please pray for Olivia! Thanks to all for prayers and support. Love ya!

updates

Well, Brian is still wearing the rocker shoe another month...but it's healing well. He's working again this Saturday, 3 in a row now, they've got him busy, busy at work! As for me, I am feeling good-just a little tired and worn out, but overall good! OK, maybe a little nauseous in the mornings until I eat. And at work, having to put up with a bunch of #%$^ these days and my moods/hormones are not letting me be as calm and patient as normal!! Also, I attended a friend's dads funeral this week that was pretty emotional. :( But I'm alright. Getting more and more excited about the new baby!

Little miss olivia has a runny nose again and SURELY will be cutting those molars any day now...little moody, picky lately! She sleeps pretty much every night in her own bed, though, so that is good. We had speech tonight at our house and Linda went over some of her conclusions for the Early Intervention review...olivia has improved greatly since beginning speech but some aspects are still not at her age level's expectations. I'm not too worried about this though, because she's 2 1/2 and saying more words/phrases EVERY day! One thing coming up is Dr Brown's botox injections in her arm, next Friday, IF they can verify how it will be covered first. Dealing with insurance and pharmacies is absolutely one of the most frustrating things to deal with! And we have the neurosurgeon follow up scheduled for Dec. 15th w/Dr Apfel...been 4 months since last check up and we are still watching the two gaps in her head where the bone hasn't grown together yet. Will keep ya updated....gotta go to bed now!

We have some wonderful news!

God willing, our family will be blessed with another little one come on or about June 22nd, '09!!! We are very excited~had first ob/gyn appointment this morning! (will post sonogram pics soon) The next appt is Dec. 4th (mom & dad's anniversary!), due date is the day after mine & Brian's 6th wedding anniversary, and remembering back, Olivia's due date was april 20th, 2 days before my birthday! Of course she came early, but still the date thing is pretty cool!

Halloween was fun for us--we took Olivia trick-or-treating to a couple houses in Salem, then Angie and I took her to Nana & Papa's in Rocky Mount. Olivia had a party in daycare that day and so after all the trick or treating, was pretty pooped. She passed out on the way home and went right to bed when we got home! Precious.

My department at work did the Hee-Haw theme!

Halloween night at Nana & Papa's! Olivia gets everyone to do what she wants at this house! :)