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!

A good photographer?

Anyone know of a good photographer in the Humble/Atascocita/Kingwood area that isn't TOO expensive?  We want to get O's 18 month pictures done somewhere OTHER than a mall photo place.  We don't want to spend a fortune, but we want to get some great pictures and poses.  :)  Anyone out there trying to start up a business or just wants some practice?  We'll take it!

Some pretty cool news

We would like to share some awesome news with everyone!  We are going to have another baby!  Baby Comerford will be making his/her entrance into our family on/around October 25th!  We are super excited and cannot wait to find out what we are having, which should be some time in June.  Here's the story of how I told Eric.  

I wanted to surprise Eric and give him a positive pregnancy test for his birthday (Feb. 14), but they kept coming up negative.  I was bummed, but figured since it was our first month of trying that it was to be expected.  So, on his birthday I broke the news to him about the negative tests.  Well, then I realized I was about 5 days ahead of myself and it was too early.  I didn't tell him, but a few days later I tested again.  Olivia had followed me into the bathroom, so I thought I'd be clever and send her out of the bathroom with the positive test to take to Eric.  I gave it to her and, not thinking, didn't put the cap back on the end.  Naturally, it was headed straight to her MOUTH!  NOOOO!  I yelled and pulled it away.  Of course this really made her mad and she wanted it back.  All Eric could hear from the kitchen was "Take it to Daddy.  NO!  Don't put it in your mouth, take it to Daddy!  No!  Eww!  Take it to Daddy."  By that time Olivia was screaming and crying and fighting me for the test.  I decided to give it to her, so she took it to Eric with tears streaming down her face.  If anyone had seen it, it would have looked like she was just hit with the worst possible news ever!  To make matters worse, when Eric saw what it was, he screamed really loudly and was jumping up and down.  This completely scared Olivia to death, and she froze.  Poor kid.  Traumatized already and the baby isn't even here yet.  :)  We think she'll be a great big sister!

Rain, Rain GO AWAY

It has been raining pretty much nonstop since this morning.  It rained a lot last evening, but then it stopped.  It is POURING!!!  We want to go outside and play but we can't!  We really just want to jump in the puddles, which we would totally do if it weren't also lightning and thundering.  Boo!  Having an 18 month old and an extremely active dog shut up inside all day long is NO FUN!  On the plus side, the house is now very clean and I got ALL of the laundry done!  

Oh, here are a few pictures from Thursday night when Olivia was looking like such a big girl.  Olivia had solidified her hair with peanut butter, so Natalie did what any pro mother would do and wet it, combed it out, and put it up!  So cute!

Happy Easter!

We had a super fun Easter yesterday.  We got up and went to the early service at church.  The message was phenomenal!  Olivia had a lot of fun in the nursery playing with the other little girl that was in there.  Then we came home so Olivia could take a nap.  As soon as Olivia woke up, we headed over to our "parent's" house in Atascocita.  They are actually Brandon's (our best friend) parents, but they have kind of adopted us since our parents are all back in Indiana.  We had a delicious meal and some really tasty desserts.  The kids hunted eggs in the front yard over and over.  Ok, actually just twice, but we stayed outside and played for a while.  Olivia was definitely hyped up on sugar, even though she didn't really eat all that much candy.  Actually, we have no clue how much she ate, because different people kept giving her things when we weren't watching.  I know this because she came running up to me with chocolate all over her face, but neither Eric nor I gave her any chocolate.  :)  Oh well, it is only Easter once a year!  We headed home and when we walked in the door, Olivia ran to the jelly bean bowl and started asking for some.  NO MORE CANDY!  She cried and cried when we repeatedly said no.  She did scarf down her entire dinner shortly after.  :)  What a fun day!

The little yellow thing hanging off of her basket is a duck calling whistle.  She LOVED it and played with it most of the day.  

Olivia trying desperately to eat through the wrapper to get to the chocolate.

Yay!  Another egg!

Hey guys, look at my basket!

But I don't want to sit and pose for a picture Daddy!  I want to play!

I sure am getting good at finding these little eggs!  

Olivia + Lupe = BFF

Sisters

Weekend with Grandma and Grandpa Neeser

Last weekend my Grandma and Grandpa Neeser came to visit me.  I had so much fun seeing them and playing with them.  They took me out to eat a lot and fed me delicious food.  On Friday when they got here, I was still taking a nap at my neighbor's house, so Grandma (Nana) Becky baked some cookies.  When I woke up, she gave me one and now I am hooked on "tookies"!  Saturday morning we got up and drove downtown to "The Breakfast Klub" for some breakfast.  It is a little local joint and it was SO AWESOME!  My pancake was as big as my head, and I ate half of it!  Everyone was shocked!  After my nap, we went to Old Mac Donald's Farm for some fun!  I chased the goats around, and then they chased me around trying to eat my jacket.  One escaped and started running all around the farm.  It was funny.  Then we went to Toys-R-Us to look for a little vehicle that I could ride.  I threw a HUGE fit when it was time to leave.  All I wanted to do was keep on riding the little trike they had there.  No one would listen to me.  That's ok, then we went to Target and G'ma and G'pa bought me a lil quad!  :)  I rode it all night in the house, and then played with it all day Sunday, too!  We relaxed on Sunday and enjoyed spending time together.  I had an awesome time with you Nana and Buppa!  I'm sorry if I forgot any part of your visit, but I'm just a kid.  Love you!

I love my new ride!  Mommy will put the stickers on today!

My Nana and Buppa!

Shortly after this photo, I became obsessed with this statue.

I don't think Mommy hears me saying "off" and "down"...so I'll yell louder.

I'm not too sure about this doggie.  (She thinks everything is a doggie.)

Nice bunny.

Bad bunny.  Or should I say bad Olivia.  I don't know why she kicks animals.

Mommy, why is this doggie eating out of my stroller?  She was so confused!

This goat made several attempts to eat O's jacket and my engagement ring!

I love to swing.  Weeeee!