Weekend Recap

On Friday I posted my 'Weekend To Do List'... It was rather ambitious due to the husband being gone and it just being the baby and I.

Here was my list:

I did enjoy Chai Tea Lattes from my new Keurig - I am so glad that I got one.  I love it!

I FINALLY painted my toenails! They have been polish-less for about two months now.  They are now an orangey color with sparkles on top...Olivia thinks they are funny and keeps pointing at them!

We did go shopping with my mother-in-law.  We found snow pants, a winter jacket, and some other clothes for Olivia - score!

We did visit my brother and sister-in-law! Got to see their cute new house and had some lunch.  Olivia was so good and not afraid at all - my brother even got to hold her which is huge (she is still in the stranger danger phase and doesn't really like men).

I did make Olivia a fun Halloween shirt!

I made a couple headbands for Olivia as well...She tends to keep headbands on a little longer then clips and her hair is getting so long in front that we need to keep it out of her eyes! I bought some stretchy knit fabric that I am going to make a couple headbands out of that as well!

I did get some relaxing in as well - Olivia slept in until 8:20am on Sunday morning!! Usually she wake up right around 6:30am...this mama was extremely happy for the extra sleep. 

The only thing I wanted to do but didn't get to was making wood pumpkins for the front step...we just didn't make it to Lowe's to get the supplies.  Oh well, next time.  I would say that I did pretty good on that to do list!

And becuase we can't have a post without a picture of Olivia...she learned how to do TaDa this weekend!

Weekend Plans!

The husband is going to be gone this weekend pheasant hunting.  That means - Olivia and Mama's Weekend of Fun!

I always over plan on the weekends - especially when I am alone with the baby, but here is what I WANT to get done this weekend...

What are your weekend plans?

Who needs toys...

One of Olivia's FAVORITE things to do is play with the gourds that we have on the front step.... as soon as we go outside to play she runs straight for the steps!

Last night she was having fun carrying them around and throwing them on the grass.  Once she gets something in her head, that is all she wants to do... She did not want to go inside to get ready for bed - she wanted to keep playing!

 

 

Miss Independent...

Cupboard locks were invented because of this girl!

At our house we have them on everything and she will still pull and try to open every single drawer and cupboard.  At the lake we only have them on the necessary ones (ie: under the sink where the cleaning stuff is).  Of course Olivia discovered this right away!

She loves pulling out the pots and pans and playing drums with them!

 So innocent right?!

Kind of a trouble maker - but so cute.  She also has started throwing her dirty diapers in the garbage after we change her.... of course the changing her part is still a HUGE ordeal.  When do they get over that?

October

We spent this weekend up at the cabin. Alone.  Just myself, the husband and the baby.  Pure heaven.

The weather was cool and rainy, the colors on the trees are turning and beautiful, the weekend was perfect. 

We took Olivia out on the canoe to enjoy the lake and the trees.  She loved it!  She loves watching for birds and looking at the water and spent some time standing up in the canoe and looking around.  I love being able to offer her these other opportunities that I never had as a child.  I hope she grows up to be an outdoorsy person. 

Now if only we can get a house on a lake so we could enjoy this all the time!

She might be a Daddy's Girl!

Olivia adores her dad.  She loves playing with him, eating breakfast with him, when he reads to her... he can always make her laugh and smile. 

She goes back and forth between the two of us pretty evenly.  Some days all she wants is her mama and other days it's all about her daddy.  I truly love that she splits it up between us.  I feel awful when Dan wants to hold her and read to her but all she wants is me, so I am so happy it goes both ways. 

It's amazing watching her develop and grow and turn into this little girl with such a charismatic personality.   I cannot wait to see where our life together takes us.  I see big changes in the future, not entirely sure what they are though.

Wordless Wednesday

Because sometimes you need to take a break on the couch!