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Happy Birthday, James! (and family pictures)

I'm a bit late posting this, but we celebrated James's 28th birthday on Saturday. We had a nice family get together with kabobs on the grill, pasta salad, garlic cheese biscuits, orange cream fruit salad, baked beans, ice cream cake, and appetizers. I didn't get to take food pics because I was running around getting the food out, making kabobs, and cleaning up.

It was a great party! I can't believe James is 28. Most people say he looks younger than that.

Olivia enjoyed trying on people's shoes.

James loved his gifts. We had a great time!

When I started to decorate with the balloons I'd blown up, I noticed one of my decorations looking slightly phallic. LOL! Can you spot it?

My sister's bf Marc and Olivia took turns pushing her toy around. She's obsessed with this thing. She crashes it into everything and then screams "MAMAMAMAMA!!!!!" for me to come and turn it around for her.

We took Olivia to the pool last week, and I've been meaning to post these pictures. She loves her floaty! When we push her around, she says, "Weeeeeeeeeeee!"

She's started calling glasses "eyes", which she made up by herself.

Her vocabulary never ceases to amaze me. She's been starting to say two word sentences, like "Dada side?" which means "Is Daddy outside?"
She also can say most parts of the body (elbow, nose, ear, teeth, hair, eye, etc). I love teaching her new words. She also pointed to various dishes on the dinner table the other night and named them, and I didn't even know she knew the words. She said "rice" and pointed and also "peas". She also knows apple and she days grape ("gaype"). I have to remind myself when we have another child that Olivia is an early talker. I don't want to place high expectations on another child when they might be as smart, just not talking as early.

She had a blast at the cosmetic store, Ulta the other day.

Reading with Grammie at Barnes & Noble:

Hope everyone had a good weekend!

Posted by Hannah at July 2, 2007 10:40 PM