Sunrise

Olivia was up painfully early this morning! I'm pretty sure that she's hitting her 6-month growth spurt, which means that the 8-hour sleep sessions she was taking last week have turned back to 2-3 hours maximum at a time. Ugh.

The one good thing about getting up at the crack of dawn was that I saw the most incredible sunrise this morning. It was so gorgeous that I contemplated going outside to photograph it, but then I realized that it was 29 degrees! I don't do that cold. I snapped these through the window of our guest room.

As people up here love to say "the mountain was out".

What a pretty place we live in.

Thanksgiving 2009

We had an awesome Thanksgiving weekend. It was my first turkey cooking experience, and thankfully everyone survived. We were blessed to have both sets of grandparents here for Olivia's first Thanksgiving, and we had so much fun with everyone. Apparently, we were having too much fun to take many pictures! Here's the few that we got over the weekend...

Olivia spent the entire meal dive-bombing the table in an attempt to get some of the delicious food. Luckily, we had Uncle Craig in town to hold her back.

This is what she does during meals now. I think that our days of going out to eat are over for a while!

The following day, we headed out to some of the local wineries to experience Washington's finest. Don't the boys look super excited to be on this adventure?

The ladies, looking lovely as always :)

Guess I'm really going to have to keep an eye on her once she hits her teenage years...

What, you mean that's not for me?

We had such a great weekend with my parents, brother and aunt visiting. Thanks for coming guys! Can't wait to see you for Christmas.

On a totally different note, a few random things...

Olivia has become obsessed with Baby Mozart. I know that watching TV isn't the best thing for little ones, but hey, it buys me a good 15 minutes of freedom and it makes her happy! She loves to sit in her Bumbo and watch the DVD's on my laptop.

The little miss is so incredibly close to sitting up on her own! Right now she topples over after a few seconds, but if we give her something to lean on she can stay upright for quite a while.

Hopefully she'll be sitting on her own in time to tear into her presents under the Christmas tree!

Happy Turkey Day

Food!!!

Livvy has become very interested in what we're eating, so we decided that it was time to give her a taste of the good stuff! Come on, milk for EVERY meal must get boring after 5 months.

We discovered that she likes rice cereal. A lot.

Gimmie that bowl!


Yum.


Chunky monkey!!!

Weekend Update

We had a pretty quiet weekend here. Doug was studying for his midterm on Monday (ahhh, how I don't miss that aspect of school!), and it was pretty cold and rainy. So we amused ourselves indoors and had a pretty lazy few days. Since it's been a while since my last post, I snapped some pictures today to get some new images up for Olivia's adoring fans.

Of course, we spent some time in the Bumbo. Little miss is attempting to launch her way out of this thing, so I think that our Bumbo days are numbered at this point.

Whatcha lookin' at?

Oh, you're taking my picture? I'll smile in that case!

Olivia is looking longingly outside and thinking "rain, rain, go away".

She absolutely loves being outside! (Unfortunately, she's still not a big fan of her stroller, but we're working on that.)

Livvy is very into sticking her tongue out!

Again with the tongue...

And if she's not sticking her tongue out, she's shoving her fist (or anything she can get her hands on) into her mouth.

Playing stackers with mommy. She's SO close to sitting up on her own - she just holds onto one of our fingers and balances herself.

Olivia's very favorite part of the day is bath time. She literally fusses like crazy when she wakes up from her last nap, and as soon as we go upstairs and start taking her clothes off she goes nuts kicking and talking and giggling. It's really adorable!

Starry baby lashes. Love 'em!

Ranch Weekend

We had a great weekend out at The Ranch for the annual elk hunt (although no elks were captured by the menfolk. In fact, no one even saw one!). I didn't bring a camera, so the few photos we have are courtesy of my sister-in-law Whitney. Thanks so much, Whit!

It was an absolutely gorgeous weekend in Oregon, so we headed out to the pond in the afternoon to enjoy the weather and do some fishing. Olivia wasn't so sure about being bundled up in her new winter-ware, but she seemed okay with it once we got outside. And she absolutely loved watching the boys fish!


Another big first for Livvy this weekend...

Her daddy was so proud.

We were at the ranch with the extended Perry fam, including Doug's parents, Kevin & Whitney, and Greg & Erin. G & E's kiddos are too cute for words. Here's Car checking out the whole fishing thing. This kid is the best! I'm sure that Erin will post lots of cute pics of them from the weekend on her blog, too.


There are lots of cool picture spots on the property, and this abandoned car is one of my very favorites.

Olivia is, once again, making some sort of Elvis face in that picture. We tried every trick in the book to get the kid to smile, but she just wasn't havin' it.

Thanks for a great weekend, Wayne & Chris!

Halloween 2009

First, let me apologize for being the worst blogger ever. I could give you a million excuses (our internet has been down, I've been on the hunt for the perfect winter jacket for Olivia, Doug has been bugging me to clean windows, etc.), but the truth is that I've just been a bit lazy about it!

Anyhoo, we had a great first Halloween with the little miss. I decided a while back that I wanted her to be a ladybug, and I found the perfect little costume for her.


(looking at her lips in that picture, I'm thinking that she really wanted to be dressed up as Elvis)

Obligatory family photo.


My mom came up for the weekend so she could be here for Livvy's first Halloween experience. We had so much fun. Thanks for coming, mom... can't wait to do it again soon!



Sadly, we were a bit slower on the trick-or-treaters then we thought we'd be. Livvy occupied herself on her new favorite perch - Dad's shoulders!


Sunday the ladies headed out to Chateau Ste Michele to enjoy the scenery. And okay, maybe some wine, too. It was a gorgeous day, and we had a lot of fun (that is, until an ill-timed dirty diaper forced us to quickly leave the premises. Awesome. Note to self: babies don't really understand wine tasting etiquette.).


Me and my girl :).