April happenings

April began with a bang as Olivia and I went with my parents to the NCAA Regional Gymnastics meet at OSU. Olivia was much more interested in the band than the gymnastics, but it was very fun and It was fun watching her interest in the band and the two babies (much smaller than she ever was :) ) sitting near us.

Gma Johnson, Gpa Johnson, and Olivia all watching the band

The next weekend (4/8) our little family packed up and headed up to Keizer for the weekend. Here's a couple pictures from that night. First, they let Olivia look at some pictures of herself, and this picture doesn't show, but she was super excited...not sure if it was the potential to eat the phone or looking at her picture, but excited none-the-less.

I'm not sure how the conversation went here, but we were trying to figure out what Olivia would look like with a full head of hair, and so the toupee of Danielle's hair came into play :)

The next morning I had my most wonderful garage-saling experience EVER! The Blanchet School in Salem has a twice-yearly Babies and Bumps sale, which is the entire gym filled with different families selling clothes from maternity through childrens. TONS of baby clothes, and all at garage sale prices! I spent a bit of money, but got awesome clothes for Olivia, and found quite a few books as well!

The next weekend was in Keizer as well. We realized after April that we had gone up almost every weekend for two months, but we got a lot done, and it was GREAT to see the Salem family so much! Anyway, over the 16th and that weekend Rick and Shirley were up, so we had a Casqueiro get-together to celebrate! It was the first time Rick and Shirley met Olivia, and my lame camera-ness failed to take any pictures! I'm hoping that someone else got some...but we did get some great cousin pictures of Tyler and Aiden playing with Olivia. They are great cousins, and they are so sweet to play with her, even though all she wants to do is eat their toys!

Olivia also wanted to show off her newly developed sitting skills for everyone! Olivia started sitting up by herself on the 9th, and by the 15th was really sturdy. She showed that, like rolling, she waited until it was easy peasy to show her new skill to us.

Successfully eating her first people food! Technically she's had bites of other foods, but this was the first food she ate that wasn't placed in her mouth. She knawed on that orange for a good five mintes, thoroughly soaking herself and Nick in orangy-spit :)

Update news...I have been missing for about a month while I finished up school, but plan to get caught up before going to Vegas on the 20th!