A Visit with Papa

It's always fun (and a little exhausting) to cram in so many Olivia-friendly activities in such a short time. Olivia had a ball playing with her Papa, and I know he had just as much fun with her. She's changed so much since we visited in November.
We went to the park a few times. Olivia and Papa fed the ducks at one of the parks we like. They were much tamer this visit. I'm guessing they weren't as hungry.
We also went to the Children's Museum. Our normal hangout, The Tot Spot is being remodeled so they opened the museum an hour earlier for kids Olivia's age. She got to enjoy the rest of the museum without being trampled by the bigger kids.
Friday Luis took the day off and we all went to the Bayou Wildlife Park. It was SO COOL. We took a tour of the park on a little train and the animals came up to us to be fed. The camels by far were the friendliest. It took us about ten minutes to even get into the park because some of the animals stood in front of our car and would not move! We can't wait to go back!
Saturday we took Olivia to Chuck E Cheese for the first time. If we never go back again it will be ok with me. Talk about chaos! She seemed to be ok with the place until Chuck came to our table for a visit. She looked at him for about 20 seconds and then started to scream. After that she wouldn't even go on any of the rides because most of them had characters on them.
Now we're just trying to get back to normal around here. We're already missing Papa, and we can't wait for Grandma's visit in March!!

Hey Luis

Scroll down and check out the picture on the right. Hint Hint...

Winterfest

On Saturday we took Olivia to the Pearland Winterfest at a local park. Although she didn't participate in any of the "winter activities," (She's a little too young for ice skating), Olivia still had a blast. She had went on a carnival ride BY HERSELF for the first time. Luis and I almost had heart attacks. While she was on the ride I was trying to recall my days working in the ER....I'm sure I've seen kids injured on these things. The guy running the ride didn't seem to be a rocket scientist. But she survived and didn't seem to phased by it.
Her favorite part of the whole day was the petting zoo. I could have watched her in there all day. At first she was barking at the goats. I think she thought they were dogs :) Unfortunately she didn't' like the pony ride so much. She got really excited when she saw them from afar, but once up close she was not into it.
She had so much fun she fell asleep on the way home and ended up napping for over 3 hours! We will definitely be going back next year!

Happy 2009!!!!

Our New Years was a little on the quiet side, but that was just fine by us. I took Olivia to a New Years Eve party at the Children's Museum. They do a New Years count down at 12 noon for all of the kids, but we didn't stick around for that. It was so crowded and Olivia was moving almost too fast for me to keep up with. Our friends Robyn and Barrett came along and we went out for lunch afterwards. We stayed home and I made enchiladas for dinner. They weren't bad for my first time.
New Years day was pretty lazy. Olivia finally got to try out her wagon and Luis and I took her to the park.