Office & Aunt Bonnie visit

Her activity mat at Barb's office 1/10/09.


Stare-down with Aunt Bonnie



Breakfast at Adam's Mountain Cafe

Fashion Forward

Fingerless gloves knitted by Kathleen!

 

We went to see Gov. Ritter talk about the State of the State and introduce the new Senator-designate
Michael Bennet





The Olive in her new favorite sling (thanks Deb!).

















Cute Dr. Seuss outfit ;-)

Smiles

Pictures hardly do then justice, but here are a couple anyway. 1/2/09

Olivia's First New Year's Hot Springs Trip

Olivia joined our 10-year tradition of a hot springs trip after the New Year. Jeremy & I have been going to different ones every year since we met, but this year we returned to Valley View, in the San Luis Valley, one of our favorites. The soaking pools are outside, so we bundled up the little Olive, put her in her "all terrain" stroller, and she happily napped while we soaked. How lucky are we? 1/2/09

Bundled up at Valley View

Baby's First New Years

This baby is a party animal!
Olivia rung in the new year with us at Alex & Azi's party. We thought she would sleep but apparently she didn't want to miss it.

 
 

Her First Laugh!

OK, maybe this is not her actual first laugh, but she just started doing this a few days ago.

The Beloved Musical Mobile

Olivia loves her musical mobile - the same one that was in her daddy's crib when he was a wee one.

Gabby Girl

Olivia was gabby tonight - New Year's Eve 2008.

A Van Hoy Christmas

Olivia was great on the airplanes to and from Chicago to visit her Uncle Charlie, Aunt Tracy, and cousins David and Joey. Too bad the airport closed on our way to it, necessitating a 4 hour diversion - to Omaha Nebraska to sit on the tarmac waiting for the storm to blow over. We had a very white Christmas!














David & Olivia


















Cute little Joey who nicknamed Olivia "baby O"


















Hanging with daddy

We drove to Indianapolis to visit Olivia's 84 year old Great Grandmother Genevieve, Aunt Tom and Uncle Mary (Jeremy's dad's siblings). We played Wii.

Early Christmas Gathering

Together at The Ferrill Homestead for an early Christmas gathering before we all dispersed to spend the holiday with our other families.



With daddy














With Grandma

























With Aunt Bonnie (pregnant with O's cousin) and Uncle Andre

Growing out of her clothes

Here's Olivia at 10 weeks stuffed into the outfit she wore home from the hospital. She's in the 75th percentile for weight at 95th for height. No wonder she's growing out of her clothes so fast!



Her legs are all bunched up in there.
















Here she's swimming in it!

Tough Girl: First round of shots

Olivia got her first round of immunization shots on Monday. I was prepared for the worst day of my life, having heard horror stories of terrible infant screams of pain. All I can say is the Tylenol must have worked. She fussed a little, then sat quietly while we waited the requisite 10 minutes to insure she didn't have a bad reaction. What a champ!

However, after her nap, when the Tylenol had worn off and her muscle soreness from the shot had presumably set in, that's when we heard her worst cries ever. She could hardly breathe through it, poor thing. Thankfully it was short-lived, and later that night she was her usual happy, social self at the Citizens Project holiday party.

Purple hat & gloves

(knitted by Auntie Amy Starks)