Nick and Amy plus TWO!: August 2013

I seriously cannot believe that my baby girl is already 11 months old!! In less than a month we will be celebrating her first birthday! I cannot believe how fast this year has went by. She is growing and learning something new every day. She is such a joy to our family.

Here is my baby girl at 11 months!

She is seriously the sweetest little girl ever!! I could eat her up with a spoon!

Here is what Olivia is up to these days!

*She is pulling up on everything and starting to reach out to other things like she is wanting to take off. She started pulling up on August 1st.

*She will stand by herself briefly. She loves to stand at all times. I have a feeling once she takes off walking there will be no stopping her and she will be on the go all the time.

*She LOVES baths! She can be fussy and I take her clothes off and walk into the bathroom and she immediately gets happy. She knows where she is headed and she loves it. She loves to splash and because of this mommy is usually soaked from head to toe after her baths.

*She loves to play but she will not sit and play with only one toy. She has to get to everything around her. Always on the go! She is very active!

*She has been shrugging her shoulders since right after she turned 10 months old. It is the cutest thing ever.

*She shakes her head no no when I tell her no. It is so cute!

*She LOVES music and loves to dance! I have never seen a little one as little as her that loves to dance as much as she does. We may have a little dancer on our hands.

*She loves to play pat a cake! It has been her favorite for a while now. She will now do all the motions that go along with the song. Sweetest. Thing. Ever!

*She is trying all kinds of food these days. She loves to feed herself her Gerber puffs and the lil' crunchies. So far she is not a picky eater. She is still not a big eater and we are still working on juice.

*She is trying to get another tooth. I can always tell when she is teething because she gets really restless at night. She tosses and turns a lot and doesn't sleep sound when she is teething.

*She is such a joy and is so much fun to play with. She is very independent and loves to do things herself even at such a young age. She gets frustrated at times because she cannot do something. She really thinks she is bigger than she really is. :)

*She is such a loving little girl. She loves to give hugs. She loves everyone!

*She is still a huge mommy's girl and I love it. She has to be around her mommy all the time. I love that she follows me around the house, pulling up on my legs for me to take her, saying "mama mama mama"

I guess that is all for her 11 month update!

Olivia has such an awesome personality and the biggest, most adorable laugh ever! I just love her to pieces! She is such a blessing to us all.

Here are a few more pictures of my precious baby girl.

Happy 11 months Olivia Kate!!!

September 20th will be here before we know it!

Brayden and Olivia have a new puppy! Meet Scout aka Scoutie!

Brayden is in LOVE with him already! We were determined to get a inside dog but at the moment an outside dog would be so much better for us. We are in the process of building a house so we are staying at my dad's for now until our home is complete. His house is small so we decided it would be best to wait on and inside dog until we move.

He is such a good little dog. I was worried that he would keep us up whining the night we brought him home but we never heard a peep out of him.

Brayden named him Scoutie (Scout) His sister watches Strawberry Shortcake and I believe that is where he got the name. The week before we got Scoutie, Brayden and I were outside playing and he was pretending to play with a dog. Saying "come here boy....wanna play ball?" I knew right then that it was time to get him a dog to play with. These two are going to be big buds!