As far as I can tell, this is going to by the last of my weekly posts. I'd love to get caught up enough to post by event or day or something. I know that I take way too many pictures, but it's hard not to when Olivia is doing new adventurous things each day. I love my job :)
The first story comes with two possible plot lines. The first being Olivia's fight against the California heat. She has never experienced this part of the year before, but it's against every grain in my body to wear shorts every day instead of jeans and a sweatshirt.
The other plot, which I find a lot more likely, is the 'C'mon mom, get out of here, I'm getting something to eat'
I love this next one because what she's really doing is asking for help (with her grunt language), because the fridge door keeps bumping her in the bum every time she turns around. The only way to prevent getting smashed is to keep pushing the door away, and sometimes her hand-eye coordination isn't that fast. Don't worry, I laughed a little, took a picture, and when she got louder I helped her out of the fridge.
In case you haven't heard, Olivia is training for the olympic sport of 'giving my mom a heart attack'. I wish I had a better picture, because when I actually came into the room, Olivia had climbed on top of her bumper (by squeezing her foot between the slats), and was bouncing up and down laughing and dancing, dangling 3 feet above the ground. I didn't want to encourage the behavior, so I didn't try to reproduce the accomplishment, but you can trust me that it was plenty scary.
I'm not entirely sure why O isn't dressed in any of these pictures. I had a stomach bug over these couple days, so maybe I just didn't notice, but I couldn't help but capture this cute moment when Olivia discovered Alex's belly button. He is extremely ticklish, and his laughing only egged her on. She would smack his belly, dig her finger into is belly button, then stand up laughing hysterically. I was so glad to encourage this!
Like I said, last Wednesday and Thursday I was very sick, and stayed in bed most of the time. Alex was awesome, and completely took over running the house. THANK YOU to his boss for allowing him to stay home!
While we make breakfast Olivia usually gets to watch a cartoon. She has a habit of walking up to the TV and standing WAY too close to watch it, so Alex thought of this invention to keep her seated. He made her her own couch! She loved it, and sat by herself the whole time he made breakfast.
Later that day (Thursday), I kindly asked Alex to take Olivia and run some errands because I wasn't feeling very good at all, and would love a quiet house. I got her dressed, and he took her out for over 2 hours :). I don't know everything they did, but I also didn't care at the time, because I got a good nap in, which was exactly what I needed. They also brought home my favorite treat, Jamba Juice! Olivia loves JJ too, and is getting good enough at using a straw that we are willing to share with her.
I took this picture the next day because I though it was amazing that a girl with literally dozens of toys a foot away is playing in the toolbox with Daddy's tools. There is some pretty scary stuff in there, so I didn't let her play with it, but I had to take a couple pictures while she didn't know I was there.
On Saturday (22nd) our little family packed a picnic lunch and went to Fresno State to walk around campus. I had heard that they had a pretty arboretum to walk through, and we had a fun time exploring and touching all the flowers. They have some pretty cool statues that Olivia liked, but her favorite thing by far was the fountain. It had some sort of soapy substance in it, which made it all the more fun to play in!
Sunday we decided to go to a pumpkin patch. I had purchased a groupon for a corn maze that I read was right off of 99, which I though was the freeway 5 minutes from us to the west. There is a freeway 5 minutes west, 2 minutes east, 10 minutes south, and 30 minutes west from us. Turns out I had my freeways mixed up, and 99 is actually the 30 minutes west one, so we had a little bit of a drive.
We took some pictures right after the corn maze, and you can tell we are all a little pink from the sun, None of us were really sunburnt, but silly Oregonion Lacey brough jackets to the corn maze instead of sunscreen, and it turned out to be a 90+ degree day! We let Olivia walk around in the pumpkins for a little bit, but in order to get a non-monstrous sized one, we would have to walk out into the patch, and we were all too hot to do that, so we ended up just heading home. The corn maze was really fun, but it made me miss the overcast, rainy pumpkin-picking at Twedt's Farm that I had growing up.
The last picture is one of my favorites :) I love these two!
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