March Madness

March is not only Madness with the NCAA Tournament, it is also filled with birthday celebrations! We began this month celebrating my Dad's birthday.  We welcomed a new niece to the family on March 10th, Ava Claire Wittman, born two days before Dan's birthday.  This past Sunday we celebrated my sister Bethany's birthday and we will close the month with my 30th birthday!  Plus Olivia celebrated her first St. Patrick's Day! Crazy times!

As for celebrations, we look forward to meeting and welcoming Ava into the world when we visit Jill, Steve, and Emma in Ohio in April!  Laura Puryear made a connection that all the granddaughters have vowel names (Ava, Emma, Olivia) all we need is a Isabella and an Ursala and the names complete all the vowels...well maybe there is hope with Carol and Scott!  Just Kidding.  Dan had two celebrations one on Friday night and a family gathering on Saturday afternoon.  My parents and Tyler came over and babysat on Friday so we could have a little date night/Happy Hour celebration!  It was great to get out and see our friends and even thought it was an early night we had a blast!  Jean stayed over night at our house on her way out to Ohio and was able to celebrate with Dan and the rest of the family on Saturday afternoon.  Olivia had a great time playing with her cousins Brayden and Tyler and the rest of the family had a nice time catching up!  Here is a hilarious picture of Dan blowing out his candles holding Olivia.  If you look very closely at her face she looks like she has no idea what is going on~

hahaha At least Brayden and Tyler were having a blast blowing out the candles! Other pictures from the day are on the Picasa Web Album.


In other Olivia developments: She celebrated her first St. Patrick's Day (and no she did not have green milk, but Dan did make green eggs for breakfast!), has begun to roll over, but not consistently and more at day care, and is officially sleeping through the night!   We are now on our third week in a row of her going to bed around 6:30-7:00pm and she sleeps until 6:30-7:00am!  She is just so cute and most mornings we do not go in to get her until we are all ready for school and she just lays in her crib and talks!  This past Sunday we did not hear a word from her and at 7:40 decided it was time to get her up and get ready for Church.  When we entered her room she was just laying there trying to suck on her toes!  My dad says we should probably stop at one! haha we will see about that one!  She is drinking 8 ounce bottles at day care and we will start cereal over Spring Break in April!  I know she is ready for the solid food because she keeps grabbing at our cups and forks when she see us eat! She still continues to drool...and drool on everything.  There is still not sign of those teeth...just a lot of drool! 

This past week Spring has begun to make an appearance and the temperatures rocketed last week, topping in the 70;s.  Olivia had so much fresh air last week it was wonderful!  We were able to walk with her and Hurley in the early evening and she loves it!  We now have her in the Bjorn facing out and she looks at everything and kicks her little legs the entire walk!  I look forward to more outing with her in the Bjorn and her being awake and aware of what is around her! 

I hope that Spring has it your area of the world!  We are LOVIN the warm weather and the week and a half until our Spring Break!