NEWS!

Saturday, August 23rd, my favorite sista in the world became a "fiance"!!!! Tom proposed at Trios restaurant downtown Roanoke! Ring is absolutely beautiful! We're so happy for them!

Last Friday Angie went with us to the park with Olivia, it was fun. Olivia chased another little girl around for about 10 minutes and loved swinging and going down the slides. Nothing slows this girl down! We love it, though!

Nana's trip to beach

Week before last Nana H. went with friends, Mabel and Karen down to N. Myrtle for a few nights! The pics look like they had a really good girls trip and enjoyed the great atmosphere that only Myrtle Beach has. Those crazy girls!!! Makes us all the more READY to go to a beach on our next vacation!

Doctor visits

Well, Thursday mid-morning at work I got a call from Olivia's teacher, Kim. They needed me to come get Olivia due to temp of 100.1 and diarrhea. She's had a runny nose and cough for almost a week, but we were giving her OTC meds. So, I brought her home and took her to see a nurse practitioner at her doct. office that afternoon. She did NOT have a temp there and her stomach, ears and lungs were fine. She said it was a bad cold with upper respiratory congestion and just needs to run it's course. She did write a prescription for a cough medicine with antihistamine to give twice/day. So Olivia went back to daycare today and was ok besides runny nose. She's been sleeping good at night again, though, so that's good!

Monday the 25th, Liv starts the Toddler Town room at daycare--such a big girl! This room works more with potty training, they still go to Melody Makers every Friday and have play time outside, etc. They do walk down to the cafeteria for breakfast instead of eating in the room, like her old room. Other than that, I really don't think there's much difference. OH, and the cost goes down $15/wk for us, which is GREAT! I think it'll be good for Olivia to be around kids her size for a change. She will probably pick up on more words from them, too. It's an exciting change!

Tomorrow afternoon, Liv is going to Nana and Papa H's and spending the night...so, it's a date night for us! We'll probably go out to eat and rent a movie. And get a few things done around the house we've been putting off. I'll probably be mowing the yard for the third time since Brian's been having his foot cut on....gosh, that sounded rude. It's ok honey, I really don't mind :) Brian's third trip to the podiatrist was yesterday too, and he has to go back in 2 more weeks... AGAIN...to see how much it's improved. The doc is concerned that it still may be infected so prescribed Brian 2 more antibiotics. We are not too happy with this doctor and so are getting our family doctor to refer Brian to someone else. This guy just really seems questionable on some things he's asked Brian and it almost seems he's just out to get as much $ out of us as he can...and Brian's foot IS healing slowly, but not fast enough, we think. He's really not been able to enjoy this summer, not being able to stand on it a lot or swim or anything! Will keep ya updated on this.

Saturday, we visited my college bud, Marcia and took a tour of her house in Rustburg. It's an old farmhouse she is remodeling and it is gorgeous! The views of the open fields and mountains make it all the more special. Brian and I both fell in love with it and Olivia had fun running around everywhere!

Uh Oh

Last night Angie was visiting and Olivia had her diaper off, "airing out", which we hardly ever do. Well, she walked back to me and Brian's bedroom and came back out asking Angie "What's that?" Angie followed her back to the foot of our bed where Olivia pointed down to the wet spot on our carpet and asked Angie again "What's that?!" :)

She does go and sit on the potty sometimes, but we are still in the process of getting her to tell us when she has a dirty diaper. So, the potty training has slowly started...not in much of a rush, though.

She's had a good week at daycare already. Tuesday is ICECREAM day during the summer...mmm! Tomorrow night we are going to the Avalanche baseball game in Salem, so that will be fun. Friday is her Occupational Therapy with Cynthia at daycare. Brian and I are trying to work on constraint therapy at home each night (It's HARD when she doesn't want to cooperate)...will keep everyone posted.

Happy 81st to "pa pa" Quinn!

With a beautiful day Saturday, we cleaned the house and hosted a cookout for some friends. Olivia got to play with her long-lost buddy, Elijah, and his sister Madylin. It was fun for all!

Today was granpa quinn's 81st bday and after coming home from the hospital yesterday, he was ready to get outdoors and enjoy the day! We all met up at Smart View to enjoy lunch and give grandpa his gifts. Badmitten was fun (and tiring!) and some played horse shoes. Brian tried to stay off his foot as much as possible since he didn't really do that yesterday. It was a beautiful afternoon! Olivia took a nap on the way home and after we ate dinner, went outside to play some more! She was ready for bed at 8:00, too. I'll be heading that way in just a little bit!

Summertime

We have been keeping busy this summer with visiting Ohio, going to Myrtle for our 5 yr anniversary weekend, doing a lot of yardwork/landscaping (way to go honey) LOL

olivia is doing very well at daycare and we have taken away her binkie for GOOD!!! She's adapted very well, only crying a few minutes before drifting off to sleep on her own! Sweetie pie.

We are getting her a new leg brace that only comes up to her ankle now, she's improved so much since her last brace we just got in MAY! So we are working our way out of them completely, we hope. She runs fast now, jumps off the ground with both feet, climbs on EVERYTHING, loves water--pools, slip n slide, and there is not much she won't try.

Her latest speech development is saying a few phrases like "wanna see" to the digital camera, and "what's that?" to absolutely everything in sight...cute! She understands so much more now and has picked up a lot of words just in the last couple of months, we can tell.

I'll be keeping this blog pretty up to date, so keep it bookmarked!!! Thanks and love you all.