Ta Da!

I know what you are thinking..."It's about time!"  I agree.  To be honest, I have actually had a few blogs ready to go, but I was too cheap to spend the money to buy more "picture space" on here.  Seems as though we have run out of available space on our blog and our Picasa, so I finally caved in and bought more.  So, now I can continue with our regular weekly blog updates.  :)  

Not a lot new to report.  I am now 18.5 weeks pregnant with baby #2.  My belly is starting to poke out, causing my pants to fit a little more tightly.  Pretty soon they aren't going to fit anymore.  We can't decide whether to find out what we are having this time or not.  We go back and forth, weighing the pros/cons to knowing/not knowing.  :)  My guess is that we will find out, because we are both pretty impatient in that area.  

Olivia has been super funny lately, coming up with new words all the time.  She is putting words together for little "mini-sentences" and I love it!  She likes to say, "Mommy, Daddy go?" when she can't find Eric.  Last week, she said, "Thank you, Daddy."  It was precious.  Her latest thing is to point to all of her boo-boos and say "hurt" and beg us to kiss it.  It is SO CUTE!  Her favorite word is still "yeah!" which I will take over "NO!" any day.  Some close contenders are "what" and "why"...which are slowly starting to get very aggravating.  She has become very good at using a fork, but still not so great at using spoons.  She gets a huge kick out of flipping the food everywhere when using a spoon.  She does, however, love to say spoon, which comes out "poon!" every time.  Every utensil is a poon!  I have been trying to get her to answer "what does a kitty say?" for ages, but she won't do it.  However, she tooted once and I said, "Did you toot?"  She grabbed her bottom and immediately said "toot" and has said it ever since.  Geesh.  I can't get her to say "meow" but she learns "toot" after doing it ONCE.  

Lupe is combing the house looking for new hiding spots every day.  She can't seem to get away from Olivia, who loves to grab her by the collar and lead her around the house like a show dog.  It really is amusing.  

Eric and I are about to dive into a summer full of home updates.  We are getting the living room and kitchen area repainted a very light taupe color.  We are going to have an entertainment center built in to the little "cut out" we have in the living room.  Actually, I think Eric is going to try to build that himself.  We want to get our patio extended and put some kind of awning over it.  Bye bye tax refund!  :)

She calls peaches "bubbles" and LOVES to eat fresh ones!

Just helping Mommy take the seat off so we can reupholster it!

Cheese!  She actually looked at me and said "cheese!" BEFORE I told her to do it!

Mommy, pay no attention to the fact that I am climbing the ladder.  

My finger fits perfectly inside this little hole.  

Whatever it is you think I just did, I probably did it.  I'm guilty.

Olivia + Mommy = BFF

Did someone say belly?  Here it is!

Hamming it up for the camera early one morning!