goodbye

In October Olive lost one of her grandpas.....Pete. He was truly a sweetheart and will be missed by everyone who has ever had the pleasure of meeting him. He had an amazing spirit that I am still in awe of. Even in the face of his impending demise he was so positive and strong that you would never know that he was even sick! I am so sorry that Olive will never know him. I think she would have liked him. He was a very special man.

Olive thought his head felt nice. It was fuzzy.

This was the drive out to Phoenix.

We met up with my brother for breakfast while out there and met his #1 lady.


Aren't they cute? I think Olive is the perfect accessory.

just cute

This was just a nice day with baby girl and her feet.

some old stuff

There's so much stuff I haven't posted! Time has gotten away from me. Here's a recap of some of the highlights!

I made half of a cake for baby girl's 6 month bday! We ate it in the great outdoors and had a gay ol' time.
I made her this rattle. Nothing like a mouth full of felt!
Look at her pretty little candy striper dress! Her pal Elvia got it for her! It's scrumptious!

This was her second time eating solid food! It was rice cereal. She's jumped way past that now. Her faves are bananas, butternut squash, and carrots. Her least faves seem to be brown rice porridge, green beans and sweet potatoes. I found the green beans particularily gross.

Here she is at the doctor's office!

Here she is putting in a day at the office! That's what we call her exersaucer.
Notice how serious and gettin-down-to-business she looks.

She likes wooshing around in her bouncer, too. She doesn't get as crazy as I wish she did, though. I remember seeing babies go nuts in their Johnny Jumpers when I was a kid. Maybe those were way more bouncy and dangerous.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!

Here's some pix from grandma's last visit with baby girl. Even though she doesn't look too thrilled, she's actually really ecstatic and is just trying to play it cool!

Happy birthday mom! We love you tons! XXOO!

More Halloweenies

She was a bee for a minute, too. It was sorta her daytime casual costume.

Daddy took these. That's why they're so professional looking.

Halloween funpants!

Check out the snazzy costume I made for my little cupcake! It kinda looks like an ice cream cone....
It must be a very comfy costume cause baby girl got weirdly serious on the way to her first Halloween party and then almost immediately fell asleep.

This is momma cupcake

Here is Juliano as a tiny misfit with Momma Monique!


yum

This is papa cupcake
Madison was a giant strawberry! All together now.......awwwwwwww
I think I'm really perfecting my halloween cupcake technique. I whipped these out in record time.
The wee ghosts are my favorite