First Zoo Trip

Watching the baby monkey!

Giraffes!

On the way to see more monkeys!!

A very tired little girl after her first zoo trip!

We decided to get a zoo membership this year, so we tested it out this morning at the Toledo Zoo. The animals were very active this morning! Olivia particularly liked watching the polar bears pace back and forth, the baby monkey climbing and swinging around, the sloth black bear pacing, and the female elephant eating a whole watermelon! We decided we didn't want to push our luck on the first visit so we didn't see everything and the new Children's Zoo is not open yet. We'll definitely be going back many times this summer! On the way home Olivia chowed down her chicken nuggets and french fries and then zonked out the last 15 minutes of the trip home.

Goodbye Spring...hello Summer!!

First time riding in her wagon. Riding like she owns it!

Enjoyed opening and closing the door repeatedly.

Testing out the new wheels.





Looking at Gabe & Clara's baby chicks.


Only cared to touch it once or twice.

Mother's Day

Olivia came and woke Mom up from a nice nap in the hammock.

She loves her fridge magnets.

She is such a chiller when she rides in Daddy's truck.

Olivia LOVES her swing.

This spring has flown by and has been so much fun with Olivia. She loves being outside! Olivia was a late crawler and didn't start crawling until 11 months old. She was too content scooting and rolling around everywhere. Now I know why everyone was telling us we were lucky, she's into everything now! She loves to clap, wave, say "ha" for hi, yell "dod" for Dad ALL the time and now just started saying Mom. This week she also started saying "no" and she'll keep saying it repeatedly to herself. We really do hear her trying to repeat things more often and do not feel its a coincidence anymore when she says something that sounds like something we were saying. Today she has repeated "toes" and "mess". Olivia loves to open and close things, stack things, put her shapes in her shape box, pick out and match her shapes and colors, take puzzles apart, push the walker through the house (she is very serious while she does this and gets extremely mad when she can't turn it around), finally is drinking her milk from a sippy cup (she only would do juice before and thought the milk should be in a bottle), point at things, jabber all the time, and dance, just to name a few things.

Terry finished up another class at Defiance College towards his masters degree. He also coached the JV baseball team for Pettisville. I have not commited to anything else but teaching and being a mom. At the beginning of the month we joined the "mini van club". Right after purchasing the van and driving out of the lot, I said that I officially felt 30!

A little late but here's Easter!

Easter was a lot of fun this year having Olivia with us. Her first Easter! We celebrated the day by Olivia opening a few cherrio filled eggs at home, looking through an Easter basket, wearing a pretty yellow dress to church, visiting both grandparents' houses, going on an Easter egg hunt, and celebrating my (Carissa's 30th birthday).

When we put on her dress and shoes for church. She was SO proud of them!

On the Easter egg hunt it was cold and windy outside (of course) and Olivia didn't want to pick the eggs off the ground. She wanted you to do it for her and then give it to her so she could put it in her bucket.

Olivia turns ONE!

Olivia turned one year old on April 7. We celebrated on Good Friday by having a small party with grandparents, aunts & uncles and cousins. We had a lot of fun! Olivia wasn't too sure about her cake and delicately picked a nice little hole in the side of it. She also tried homemade icecream for the first time. TOO COLD! (the 2nd picture says it all!)