3 Months!

Miss Olivia is 3 months old! It feels like time as has just flown by! 

She is already so much bigger than when we moved out here. 

*She smiles and coos and recognizes Clint and I. 

*She especially loves it when Clint comes home. She smiles and loves being held by him. It is seriously the cutest thing.

*She has discovered her hands. For a while she would stare at them, with the most intense look and they would inch closer and closer to her face and she would hit herself in the eye. It always shocked her for some reason... Now she has perfected the hand to the mouth movement! She doesn't suck on them, but instead just plays with her tongue all over them which results in A LOT of slobber. 

*She has this little owl that hangs on her bouncer and she loves talking to him. When she kicks her leg (always the right one), the owl and the bouncer bounce- so she has developed this habit of kicking that leg all the time. I think she thinks kicking means entertainment because whenever Clint and I get distracted from playing with her that little leg will start kicking way! :) 

*She has also developed a fake cough. It's kind of hilarious. Again, she realizes it gets her a little more attention so she'll do it when we put her down or when I change her diaper or outfit. I kind of love it... confession. I may actually encourage that one because I cough back at her and snuggle her little neck. Then she coughs again and we snuggle some more and its just precious.

*This little one has the most expressive eyebrows. She always has. I just love it about her.

This was a grumpy day...

*I love that she is getting so responsive and figuring us out and the world around her out as well. I'm amazed everyday that she is my daughter now and forever. We love her so so much!

and so do these cute cousins of hers ;) 

A scary story just in time for October

So this morning I was sitting on my couch with Olivia and trying to get her to take her nap when I saw a black car pull into our driveway. 

This was slightly strange, but the mailman goes around in a beat up little junker car so I figured maybe this was a package delivery guy? 

A fairly large man gets out of the car and starts walking up the walkway. I listen for him to knock on the door, debating whether I will actually answer it since I am in my robe and the baby is almost asleep.

To my surprise, the door knob turns. And stops.

This is when my heart starts RACING and I'm very grateful Clint locked the door before he left this morning. 

Then I hear the noise of a key or something in the lock! 

I got off the couch and went to the door. I pushed against it with my back.

Maybe I was thinking I could keep this big man out with my size? Not sure why I didn't grab a knife... or my pepper spray which happened to be by the couch I was just sitting on... All I know was I was freaking out and it was the first thing that came to mind. 

The man stopped jiggling the lock and I looked out the peep hole. 

He was looking around and then audibly gasped and apologized before turning around and walking back toward his car. 

I opened my door.

Again, not one of my best moves looking back, if he had been a crazy man, this could have been bad...

He turned around and apologized again, saying he was from out of town and he got the wrong house. He then walked to his car and drove next door with a beautiful bouquet of flowers (I didn't see those before, that made me feel better about him)

I sat back down on the couch with Olivia, who was now completely awake, and tried to calm down. 

It was kind of scary. I'm really glad Clint locked the door this morning and that the man who was at my door turned out to be really nice. 

Happy ending to a scary story. 

The End

Quick Update

Life is looking a little more normal around here. We're getting used to this southern life and loving it!

Clint carpools with an awesome family we moved out here with and so Olivia and I get the car to get out of the house 2-3 times a week. On our days we stay at home we usually go for a walk. We have this amazing little pond around the corner that I love to walk around...

and it takes Olivia and I about 15 minutes, which is plenty of time in this humid heat, let me tell ya. 

Olivia doesn't get thrilled about much, but as you can see, these walks are on the top of her list.

haha just kidding, she really does like them :)

 In this picture she is contemplating the cool creature we had just happened upon that mom got WAY excited about. 

Right? When do you just walk past a turtle on your walk? 

We also have been to story time at the library

Yet another one of Olivia's really excited faces... but it was a fun day.

 It happened to be Johnny Appleseed Day and so we got a free apple and listened to stories about good ol' Johnny. I have to admit, I missed my little second graders for just a minute while we read some of those books...

One Saturday Memphis was having a "Free Museum" day. Most of the museums were actually buy one get one free admission or buy one get one half off... which didn't seem to fit the free label to me, but what can you do... and Clint and Olivia and I went down to join the fun.

We went to the Cotton Museum, which was free, and then walked a little on Beal Street since I hadn't been there yet. Clint had warned me that it wasn't really a family place to take Olivia but I assured him it would be just fine. Then we got there. I guess he was right- I don't think I've smelled pot that strong since high school- so we left pretty quickly. It was long enough to see some cool car show they had going on and take this awesome picture of Clint with the stroller. :) 

Clint is loving Optometry School. This is a bit of a relief for me to tell you the truth. You see, although he shadowed some optometrists and was a part of the optometry club at BYU, he really didn't know exactly what he was getting into. So having him come home excited and loving what he is learning is REALLY nice. The other night he brought home a piece of equipment to study on Olivia and I for a lab he was doing. It was fun to hear him talk about what he was looking at and how he would calculate the lenses. 

(Clint would like to say that he did know what he was getting into and there was only a slight chance he may not have liked it. I'm glad that slight chance turned out well)

Olivia is keeping us busy and she is getting more and more entertaining by the day. This little girl sure has a personality of her own and we love it.

She has learned to smile and a few nights ago I think we may have even gotten a laugh, but we can't get another one so stay tuned for that. :) 

Can you believe she is almost 3 months old? 

Man, where did the time go?