OLIVE'S FIRST BIRTHDAY

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY to our little Olive bug!! Her actual birthday was on thursday, may 29th! it's been a year since she was born, really?! yesterday was a happy & emotional day for me! i was in denial the whole day, that my little baby was ONE YEARS OLD!! When i tucked her in bed at the end of the day i felt an emotion of sadness. if i could, i would freeze time forever! these little ones grow up so quickly. in a blink of an eye she'll be graduated and moving out. please stay little forever!!

when olive first woke up on 5-29-2014, dave went in and got her. singing "Happy Birthday" while doing it! we did our little morning routine and then went to open presents in the living room! when we went birthday shopping for Olive we let her pick out what she wanted (besides the big slide) and then we wrapped them up for her to open.

once we finished presents, i made french toast for breakfast and added some sprinkles for the birthday girl. daddy had to head off to work and grandma moultrie came to pick up olive to go birthday shopping and to lunch! a little bit later, olive and i picked up dave and we headed to The Hogle Zoo for the afternoon.  Olive was so funny. she loved pointing at all the animals and wanted nothing to do with the stroller. and mommy.  she either walked holding dave's hand or had to be held by dave!

it was so much fun to see all of the animals.  we went last summer, and felt like there wasn't much to see because of all the construction going on. a lot of the animals came right up to the glass, which was so cool!!

after the zoo we headed to have a celebratory dinner at 5:10pm (the time little miss olive was born) afterwards we headed home and started our bed time routine.

i still can't believe olive is one!!! we love this little munchkin more than life and are SO glad she chose us to be her parents! life would not be the same without her!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLIVE!!

Twelve Month Update:

olive weighs 18 pound 17 ounces, in the 30th percentile. 28.5 inches long, in the 80th percentile.  her head is 18.2 inches, in the 80th percentile.

olive has been walking for a little over a month now!! WAHOO! we love the walking stage SO much more!! it's the absolute best!

olive is still not a great sleeper, but by now we are just used to it.  it's whatevs!

she loves strawberry shortcake and anything to do with mickey mouse.  she loves playing her her soccer ball... just any ball really.  she loves to just wonder and check out new things.  olive loves dogs and other people, especially little kids! she is definitely not shy one bit!!! she loves being outside.  olive loves bath time and playing with her bath toys.

olive has 4 teeth and is currently cutting 4 more! :(

she loves italian food.... pizza, ravioli, spaghetti.  she loves the veggie straws from costco.  her favorite sippy cups are the ones with straws.  she wants nothing to do with baby food anymore, and we have switched to the whole milk (which is not her favorite, but she will drink it if she's hungry enough)

i love watching olive learn and grow every single day!! she is our little princess!