7 months!!!

Well, we are a little late in adding this 7 month picture! As you can see, she is getting so big!

Olivia at 7 months:

• She's sitting up completely on her own...we even try to nudge her and she doesn't fall!
• She has 2 bottom teeth! So cute!
• Her hair is coming back...and it's red!! Crazy! Thanks mom for that gene!
• She laughs all the time. It's quite funny! I take her to women's tea a lot and when we are all laughing, she starts laughing like she's one of us!
• When we prop her up to where she's standing, she can stand for a while, until she gets so excited that she falls over!
• She is just about to start crawling...yikes! Right now, she looks like she's swimming.
  
• She is eating fruits, cereal, vegetables, and meat (stinky!). We aren't really making them as much as we started out. It is so easy to go to the store and buy a jar :/
• She Loves, loves her pink monkey, tags, anything that makes a noise, laughing, singing, and attention (imagine that)!
• She is starting to say little sounds such as mamamama, dadadada, papapapa, and ABBA! Which is Aramaic for Father, like God! She's so smart!
• She got her flu shot :(
• And last but not least, Olivia loves driving! Well, sort of! She sits in her bumbo to eat and her treat if she eats well is to drive. We take the tray of the bumbo and
  

5 West is the Best, but 5 East is GREATER!!!!

This post should have been written a week and a half ago, but life has been busy. I (Jill) recently went to Chicago to attend my college roommate's wedding! It was so great to connect with my close group of friends from college and see my beautiful friend get married! The wedding was just perfect! I actually forgot that her husband is of Indian culture, so when I walked in the chapel, the whole right side of the congregation was Indian! It was so neat to see them all in their Indian dress! Anyways, the entire wedding was beautiful...it was totally Megan! We rode buses through Chicago to get to the reception and that too was great! I have to talk about the dancing...! Because there were a lot of Indians, I kept saying, "They HAVE to play Jai Ho, from Slumdog Millionaire." Well, lo and behold we were out there dancing and what song came on?!?! Jai Ho! It was indescribable...everyone came on the dance floor and formed a big circle and started doing Indian dances (like on the movie!) I was just so excited and tried to imitate them! I'm sure I looked stupid! haha, it was so much fun! The dancing was great, the food was amazing, the decorations were beautiful...everything was perfect! The best part of all was that I got to reconnect with all of my friends that I miss so dearly. We shared 4-5 great years together and will probably never all live in the same state again :( But will ALWAYS remain friends!The beautiful and HAPPY bride!!

Dad giving his daughter away...groom waiting patiently!

Kayla, TBone, aka...my sister (not really, but we always said we were). Cute bridesmaid dresses!

This picture is small (that's what I get for stealing it from Facebook!) This is one of my best friends so I had to add the photo in!

FRIENDS FOREVER (like on Zack Attack-Saved By the Bell!) We all lived on the same floor freshman year of college and became great friends! Oh, how I miss them! We're all just so grown up!!!

The Next Mozart?

Olivia is learning how to play the piano! No lessons of course... self-taught! We think she's pretty good... haha, and she thinks it is hilarious!

Mimi and Big Papa come to town

Mimi and Big Papa came to town this last weekend. We had so much fun! Mimi cooked Thanksgiving dinner for us and it was awesome! They also played with Olivia so that she didn't have to go to daycare. We also didn't have to do any dishes while they were here! We had a great time just hanging out and going to Chicago!

Olivia saw a horsey for the first time!
Olivia's new "playspot" ... she's going to be crawling soon!

Visiting Cheese country

Well, we realize that we haven't blogged in 2 weeks. We have been super busy and have so much to blog about...BUT...we have to write a much deserved blog! My 2 cousins flew into Cheeseland to visit us! We felt so honored that they would spend their hard earned money to come see us. We had to take a picture in front of the "Cousins" sub shop. We didn't eat here because it's a sub shop like subway. We at at Comet Cafe, Cosmos, and I cooked a few meals for them because we all poor!

We then toured the Sprecher factory to show them how Wisconsin makes beer and soda! You all should know what Sprecher is by now if you read our blog faithfully!! And yes we kept up our end of the deal...remember we said anyone who visits us gets a complementary Sprecher upon arrival!!

This is what we did a lot of the time...just spend quality time together (that's my love language!) Olivia loved all of the attention...that must be her love language too! It was so great just to catch up like the good ol' days!!

More hanging out! Olivia learned so much from her crazy aunts!! She learned how to give a high five, how to "Walk like an Egyptian", and much more! How she already misses them!

Oh how we look so happy in this picture, but we're quite sad now that they are gone. It seems like something is missing in our living room, and it seems like there is more room. We had such a good time with them and wish we could see them more often. It's so great when the 3 musketeers are together. Thanks for visiting girls!!!