How to make friends with a Husky...

Olivia apparently has decided Nina isn't quite fat enough.

Happy St. Pat's!

"Well" Check-Up

Well, she apparently looks more "well" than she
is.....

This morning Olivia and I embarked on what was
supposed to be her 12 month "well check-up." However,
things didn't quite go as planned.

To begin, Olivia began coughing in the car on the way to the
Dr. This was during the 8 am rush hour, mind you.
As she coughed and coughed, she began to gag. And then,
then, she began to projectile vomit all over the back of my
car (my company car, that is). As I said, all this took place during
rush hour.

I was just a bit panicked....I mean, this is a kid who has never
really been sick! AND, I am the biggest "sympathetic puker"
in the world. I was just as worried about me as I was about her.

Fortunately, we have friends who live in midtown who had not
yet left for work. Thank GOD Whitney answered her phone
because I spent a good 30 minutes at her place cleaning my
car, my child, and her disgusting car seat. Thank GOD that
Whitney's daughter had some clothes for Olivia to wear...I am
no longer in the habit of packing extras as they've never been needed.

Pat called the Dr. and told them why I was running late. When we
got there, 45 minutes later, Olivia seemed fine. In fact, we were really
shocked to learn that she has an ear infection....with zero symptoms.
The doc suspected there is nothing wrong with O's stomach and
she just triggered her gag reflex when she coughed somuch.
She then said we are so lucky that Olivia is such a healthy little
princess, prescribed her some antibiotics and said not to worry. She left
me with one final warning regarding this morning's puking incident:
"It won't be the last time!" Maybe not, but it will be the last time I feed
Olivia milk and bananas for breakfast for a while!

As you can see by Olivia's photo, she is doing quite well, in fact you cannot
even tell she is sick.

Here are her 12 month stats:
Length-31.25 inches=95th percentile
Weight-23 lbs (after puking, that is!)- 80th percentile
Overall health and development-A+++

Happy 1st Birthday Olivia!

Can't believe it's been an entire year already! In honor
of the celebration here's a video from the night Olivia was
born. I accidentally filmed Olivia being weighed instead
of taking a picture which obviously turned out to be a great
thing. Thanks to everyone who sent gifts and cards this week,
we're extremely fortunate to have such great family and friends.

Film Debut

Homemade vanilla n sprinkles...yum!

What do I do with this?

Interesting...

We finally trained Sasha to take pictures..

I'm getting icing on my eyebrows..

My hands are delicious!

The icing's gone.. Can I have a new one please?

This takes a lot of concentration.

The cupcake is bald.

Sasha taught Liv some gang signs from her days on

the west side of ATL over the weekend.

Oh, and did we mention that she actually ate

one-and-a-half cupcakes?! Talk about a first

on her first birthday.