The Zooooooooooo!!

Grandma B. is in town and so we decided to hit up the Sactown Zoo today. It was awesome! And ridiculously HOT, but Livy didn't mind it, of course. Neither did my mom who gets cold in 90 degree weather.

Here we have the FLAMINGOS! (You're supposed to say "flamingos" like that one Sonic commercial when the wife says, "To the movies!" If you don't get this reference - please, please, PLEASE watch more T.V.!!!) Anywho, these are my fave. It takes me back to my Tracy Aviary days. No, I didn't work there - I just wished I did...

These two crazies love to look at each other with huge smiles and super squinty eyes. Weird.

Livy adoring the koi fish.

Livy and my mom really started to bond. It's kind of funny because, to me, Livy looks so much like my mom. So when they're together it's kind of weird. It's like Livy's looking at herself from the future!!! Is that weird of me?? Am I too obsessed with Heroes and time travelling? I don't care! I love Hiro!!

Here is the only evidence that I tagged along for the fun. This is on the train ride that we had to wait FOREVER to ride. The five minute ride in a packed passenger seat was totally worth the wait...

It's done! It's done! It's done!

I have finally finished Livy's book and I'm so happy! So here it is! I can't wait to see it printed. Please, check it out and let me know what you think! And let me know if there are any weird things or mistakes... If I print it with any typos or mistakes... SO HELP ME.

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Birthday Awesomeness

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY, LIVY!!!!!!

Livy's official first birthday isn't until tomorrow, the 9th, but I wanted to post about her tonight so that I have zero distractions tomorrow. I can't believe my baby is one! It's so crazy that I gave birth to a tiny awkward newborn one whole year ago! Man, the last year has been so crazy and awesome. Livy has learned A LOT of things this year -- as have Matt and I. It's been an incredible journey thus far and we thank Heavenly Father every night that we have this little one in our lives.

I'm so excited for tomorrow. Matt and I are decorating the apartment tonight with streamers and balloons and whatnot. In the morning, we're going to let her open her presents. (This will be another celebration made possible by Grandma Baumgartner who sent Livers a billion presents that we just got today.) I wrapped all of her presents with tissue paper so that it will be easy to get to the goods! Hopefully it will go better than Christmas. Then we're going to do cake at lunch before Matt has to go to work. And then if the weather is good I'm either going to take her to the park or the zoo. Then until bedtime, we're going to watch her favorite shows and let her do whatever she pleases -- including play with chapstick and q-tips -- her all-time FAVE.

So anywho... here are some fun things about Littlest Liviest... (A nickname given by Matt's brother, Luke)

*She can sign several words which really help us out: milk, please, all done, and more (which also means "I want" to her)

*Her favorite breakfast is oatmeal and yogurt (Activia of course - no more constipation ever again!)
*She can throw tantrems now -- not fun!
*She loves going down the slide - despite the little mishap a month ago
*She is completely off of bottles and formula - now she just has a cup of milk with her sippy
*She only eats "human" food - she never did the baby food which was awesome and horrible at the same time.
*She has ZERO teeth - still! Ahhhh! When will those suckers come in!
*She prefers to walk everywhere now - it literally happened last week - no more crawling
*She thinks it's HILARIOUS to lick us - or anything for that matter.
*She loves to give things and people "loves" where she rests her head on them to show she cares
*She LOVES to dance - especially to the Madagascar 2 song - The Traveling Song by will.i.am
*She also loves to dance in her carseat while listening to Jack Johnson
*She loves watching Dancing With the Stars with me - seriously - she'll just sit there and watch them dance
*Her favorite place to sit in our apartment is under our desk next to the printer

*She loves to wave as we pass by people and say hi
*Her favorite show is still Little Einsteins
*She loves sweets and always knows when you have them
*She's a total begger whenever she sees anyone eating anything

This is how she signs "please" - I love it. Now we're working on thank you.

This is my favorite picture from today. I love it!

Throwing a tantrum...

Livy's First Easter Bunny Experience...

So we were at the mall today and we saw the Easter bunny and I was like - we have to get her picture taken!!!! I was so excited and for some reason I thought Livy would love the idea of sitting in the lap of a crazy, ginormous, fuzzy BEAST... When I was about to put her in the bunny's lap she was holding on to me tighter than she ever has in her entire life! She was clinging so hard! Then she sat down and they snapped this pic before the real screams began. So funny.