Olivia's Surgery

I am a little bit premature in my posting of this blog, but when you have internet access, you take advantage!  I am currently sitting in the waiting room at the hospital while my little tiny baby is off somewhere being put under anesthesia.  I'm sure everything will go splendidly and that there is absolutely nothing to be worried about, but of course it's nerve-wracking to leave your child in the hands of someone you barely know holding a scalpel.

From what I am told, her recovery should be very easy.  Depending on whether or not Dr Shmelzer (yes, his name is Dr Shmelzer, you read it correctly) has to place a pin to correct her thumb positioning, she may or may not even need bandaging.  Without a pin, he will just stitch her up and put some glue over the top to make it waterproof.  If he does have to pin it, he'll bandage her whole hand so she doesn't chew on it. Her pain level is supposed to be pretty low though.  They will give her pain medication for today but by tomorrow he said he'll be surprised if she even needs Tylenol.

And that is all the information that I have for now.  Now we wait....  Surgery will be about an hour.  In the meantime, enjoy some pictures of Olivia from pre-op:

This was the face she made when we told her she was having surgery today...

 And this was the face she made when I told her she could have juice today!

All dressed in her ginormous surgery outfit

 I love this girl

Rolling Over

Olivia is 4 1/2 months old now, can you believe that? Anyways, she had rolled over once last Sunday but neither me or Nate were lucky enough to witness it. Then she tried about a hundred times over the last week and finally did it a few times yesterday but it seemed to make her pretty cranky. Today, she's apparently a master at it! Every time I put her on her tummy today, she rolls right over and then has a huge smile on her face when she gets over. It's the cutest thing!

She's also ridiculously close to being able to roll from back to front. She just needs a bit more practice getting that leg over. I just can't believe how fast she's growing! I feel like as soon as she hit 4 months, she just started taking off with milestones!

This is a test....

So Nate and I decided that it's silly for us to pay SO much every month just for internet! So in an effort to be more frugal, we cancelled it. I can still check Facebook and upload pictures on instagram with my phone but I can't really do blog posts which is a bummer! So this test is to see if I can do this post from my phone. So far it's working... let's try a picture:

Please comment and let me know if there are any issues reading this or if the layout goes weird. Thanks!

2 Months

This post is really really late...  I tried so hard to remember to get some cute pictures of Olivia on her 2 month birthday but it just didn't happen, then I tried to remember to do it when we got back to Utah after Christmas but I just had so much going on with unpacking and getting doctor things taken care of that it just completely slipped my mind.

Nate did take this one picture of her on the 26th during her morning nap

Olivia is just the sweetest baby in the whole world!  She really hasn't been too fussy of a baby and I love that.  She just had her 2 month Doctor visit last week and she's looking great!

New Stats:
Weight - 10 lbs, 6 oz (still the 16th percentile)
Length - 22 in (15th percentile, 10th last time)
Head - 15 in (33rd percentile, huge jump! 6th last time)

She also got a whole bunch of immunizations at this visit too!  She got Hepatitis B, Polio, Pneumococcal Disease, DTaP, Rotavirus, and Hib.  Poor thing got 3 shots and one oral.  She handled them like a trooper though.  She cried when she got poked but after some snuggles she was ok.  We got her some Tylenol like the nurse said and she slept most of the day.  She did seem pretty needy for a couple days though.  She wanted more snuggles than usual and ate less but more frequently.

She has also become a very curious baby, she is always wanting to stand up and see everything around her.  She loves to play with her Daddy in the mornings after breakfast, very smiley and babbles a lot.  Yesterday she discovered her reflection in the mirror.  She sat there smiling and talking to herself, it was so cute!  She started wearing all 0-3 month size, some things are still huge on her though.  She finally outgrew all of her preemie clothes but the newborn size onesies still fit her the best.  She can do a full upper body push up during tummy time now, sometimes she even pushes up so much that her hips go up too.  She is so strong!  Love, love, LOVES taking baths!  It doesn't matter what kind of mood she's in before, she is always happy in the bath, kicking and splashing.

I just can't believe how much she is already growing up and it's only been 2 months!  Bring on the next month!

Christmas Vacation

This year we drove out to California to spend Christmas with my family.  My parents rented a beach house at Half Moon Bay so that we could all be together.  It was nice to be so close to the beach and it was also nice to have everyone under the same roof.  With such a large family and everyone being married and having kids and stuff, everyone being in the same place can be pretty rare.

The drive out there went pretty smoothly, except for the parts where the speed limit was only 30mph, those were pretty slow parts.  But, we got to drive across the Golden Gate Bridge for our first time!

Our first day there was Christmas Eve.  That morning we went to the beach, Olivia snuggled up with Nate the whole time, she loves him.

When we first got there, we were walking around on a pier watching people fishing and catching crabs.

Then we went to see the Mavericks.  It was a beautiful sight!

Of course, the next day was Christmas.  We only managed to take one picture of Christmas Day and it was right after Olivia ate a nice big lunch and fell asleep so she was drooling milk

After everyone else left (except Neil and Ashley), we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.  Everyone else went before we got there.  Apparently we didn't get very many pictures of it, but it was really fun.  Nate took this awesome picture of some jellyfish.  I want to make it the computer background, it's so mesmerizing!

Outside, looking at the bay

Of course we had to get lunch at the fish hopper, it's tradition!  Or so we're told.  Either way, the food was absolutely amazing.

The next day (our last full day), we went to the Jelly Belly Factory.  We weren't allowed to take any pictures during the tour so we just got these 2 right before we went in with our Jelly Belly hats on.

They told us that Olivia had to wear one too.... So she did!

We had a very nice relaxing Christmas break.  Thanks for having us, Mom!

Merry December PhotoDump to you, Blogger!

Before I go into the Christmas post, I figured I'd share all these random photos taken throughout the month of December that don't really belong to a post on their own.  Enjoy!

Nate does a lot of little photo shoots with her on his cell phone

I love her face in this one!  You don't mess with her, she will cut you.

Working on those smiles

The picture on the left is of Nate as a baby, she looks a lot like him!

I promise, she did this all by herself, no posing!

I don't know what it is about Santa but apparently even a 6 week old baby who shouldn't know any better is terrified of him!  Note: She was perfectly happy before we handed her over and was just fine as soon as we took her back, just didn't like santa...

Hanging out in her Bumbo after Christmas, she really loves this thing.  Probably because she likes to be able to see what's going on and it helps her sit up.

1 Month Old

On November 26th, Olivia turned 1 month old!  To celebrate, we did a little photo shoot.  Here are the pictures!

After we got ready for the day

Savannah came to visit us later and helped me with the pictures

I just love little ruffly bums!