Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!

Olive is such a happy girl.  We do enjoy her.

On Friday, a few of us church primary leaders decided to go to Busch Gardens with the babies. It was a total blast.  We hung out in Sesame Street land all morning and also played in the kid splash area.  Olive was in heaven! I think some of the pictures say it all, and the video is even better!

We are moving to Utah for the summer in 1-1/2 weeks and I feel like I have soooooo much to do before we leave.  I was really glad to give Olive a nice fun day before we are trapped in a car for four straight days!

Cookie Monster Copycat

For some reason, Olive has been such a messy eater.  She takes fistfuls of food and just throws them at her mouth.  I finally realized that she is just doing what she has been taught from her idol, Cookie Monster.

Easter

We had such a great Easter weekend! On Saturday, we found that there was a little Easter egg hunt over at the local rec center.  We were sure to be there early (to get one of the limited parking spaces) and Olive played on the playground for a few minutes.

 

Once the hunt started, Olive picked up lots of eggs, but looked a little bored about it.  Like she was picking up her toys or something.

She got a ton of eggs.  Then again, there wasn't much competition in her age group (0-2 years). Once she discovered candy in them, she was a lot happier!

When we got home, she played with that bucket of eggs all day!

I was crazy and decided to make her Easter dress the week before!  It turned out pretty cute, and I'm glad I did it.  It ended up being more expensive than if I had bought a dress, I think. I have more pictures of her in the dress on the other blog.

Olive's Haircut

Recently, I found myself constantly thinking about Olive's hair and how it was becoming a shaggy mullet. I decided that it might be okay for me to give a little trim.  After all, her hair seemed to be nothing but a million layers; surely my lack of training would hardly be noticed, right? This is what it looked like after I cut it.  I had this idea that if it flipped out, it would be sort of cute...

And then I found reasons to keep cutting.  Basically, my lack of skill was showing.  So what did I do?  Take her to a professional?  Um no, I figured I could keep trying! 

Then later that night, in the bath, I noticed several areas that were uneven. With Olive's back to me, I figured I could do a quick snip here and there to even it up even more.  Worst decision ever. It quickly became a "boy" haircut, according to Kevin. And it still looked uneven.  I was so sad.  No more cute pigtails. What had I done?!

Luckily, my sweet friend, Tiffany, agreed to come over and help fix it.  It's still obviously short, but at least it looks even! And then my nephew, Jace, decided to provide some consolation for me.

Luckily, hair grows.  And as Jace reminds us all, it could have been worse. 

Olive is sick today (we all got hit with hay fever) and so she is a leaky faucet. Hopefully she will feel better soon.  I hate having a sick child, though I am glad to say that she is still very pleasant.  She colored and played while we watched conference! (General Conference was especially good, wasn't it?)