Olivia's First Birthday

Sorry for the delay in posting but work is interferring with my blogging time!! As I write (10:22 p.m., I am waiting for a call from another lawyer).

We had Olivia's birthday parties on the weekend. She was a little bit sad at times (turns out she has another ear infection) but still had fun! On Saturday night we had the family over for dinner, the family keeps growing with the addition of Kevin and his kids. We had about 20 people total. Olivia had fun playing with all the little girls. Ethan loved playing with Kevin's two girls, especially Casey. Here is a picture of Olivia playing with Courtney and one of her unwrapping her presents.

Once that party was done, we had to prepare for her kid party the next day. Courtney, Caitlyn and Carly slept over on the Saturday night to help prepare things. Scott and Caitlyn ended up going to Toys R Us at 11:00 p.m. to get some more stuff for the loot bags, lucky Toys R Us is on Christmas hours.

The next day we had Gymboree come to do an hour class. Olivia woke up late and was a little bit sad during the class (in retrospect her ears likely hurt as she had just woken up), but the older kids had a great time. Once the class was done and we were having lunch, Olivia started feeling better. She was more interested in her cake than Ethan was which made Scott happy. I think we tried to interest Ethan in his 1st birthday cake by putting cereal on the cake. With Olivia we used her toy tiger.

We hired a nanny tonight to take care of Olivia in January. With this ear infection that doesn't seem to want to go away, I didn't want to put her in daycare (where she would be guaranteed to get sick). I am a little bit nervous about someone other than family being with her but this nanny comes from a good agency with good references and Olivia seems to like her, so hopefully it will work out!

Will try to post some more pictures from her parties later this week!