Christmas Eve and Making Sugar Cookies

These photos are from Christmas Eve with Grandma Tutu and Great Grandma Genie. We had a great time that evening sharing great food and opening gifts with the family.

Here we, Auntie Alyssa and I baked and decorated god know's how many dozen sugar cookies and iced each one with TLC. As a family, we have always enjoyed baking goodies around the holidays. Sugar cookies are my fave- so we peprched Miss Olive up on the counter and she watched with delight- next year this will be even more fun when Olivia can help roll and decorate sugar cookies!

As you can see Olive is growing- she is now 2 months old- she weighs in at 11 lbs and 23 inches! Her neck and back are getting increasingly stronger- which is nice- not such a googly little baby anymore! Mike and I are getting into the swing of things- somewhat- the other night I asked him if he ever felt like a "hamster on a wheel." He didn't seem to understand what I meant- those of you women who have/ had kids probably can relate. It's now 10pm and I'm finding that this is a good time to get some things done- read, check email, clean house and bleach my teeth, hahah! Enjoying every day- day by day- watching Olivia grow. Grandma Jackie Relyea- or "Tutu" she has been coined, which stands for "hawaiian grandma" recently picked us up sign for Olivia's room which I think sums it all up- "such a big miracle in such a little girl!" Well goodnight for now- hope all are well, glad to get to share this with all of you, xoxo karlie

New pics of Olive

Week 6

Here is Miss Olivia's latest photo shoot, she's wearing a darling pink jumper, so soft and cuddly! She and Miss Bunny below are great friends! Oh the things we do to get a good photo or a smile! This is her typical face in the 8-10am morning hour! I manage to get a bit of work done on the computer- while she kicks and punches, smiles and grunts! She has really began smiling and is aware when you talk to her as you can see in the photos below.

Mike and I are enjoying each and every moment of this new chapter in our lives, Mike amazes me with his patience, lately he is giving me a lesson in patience, who would have ever thought that...? I am working on learning to balance motherhood, work and my time, it is a challenge, but I know it can be achieved! That's it for now. xoxo

Three Weeks

Well the three week mark has come and gone. The past weeks have been filled with lots of smiles and lots of lovingly exchanges of eyes between Mike and myself. We are pinching ourselves that we "won the lotto" with such a happy baby! We feel very fortunate! Here is a photo of Olivia's room, decor compliments of our friend Burly, (he painted the canvases on the wall behind Mike.) The other photo is Mike- early morning feeding, complete with sleepy eyes and hairdo! I am working on getting some nice photos of the narrator... me! I'll keep you posted when that happens!

Olivia's Visitors... lots of love!

So we have had some visitors in the last week!
Grandma Jackie Relyea... she is so proud!
No shortage of love around here!

My nieces: Rose, Grace and Faith Salitore! Smile for the camera- they are going to be my best babysitters!

Grandpa Paul and Barbara Salitore! Thanks for all the help and good meals! We are definitely not starving- that is for sure!

... and the boys- Griffin, Bryce and Mason Lintner- they were saying "tah dah!" ... such sweet boys!

First Photo Shoot with Auntie Amy

Dad's hands

What a smile...

...and a yawn...

Precious!

We think she's part tree sloth. hahahahhahahha!