Long time......Wow what a year.....so far.

Well back by popular demand........The Olivia Morgan blog will now be changed to the Olivia and Everett Blog. We are expecting our second child around Christmas. We are so excited to add the final piece to our family. Some ask why the name Everett and to be honest......I don't know. We were going over names at work one day and Everett came up. I told Jonathan and he loves it. SO for now his name is Everett Jaxson Dausy. It's funny when I look up the name the meaning is "strong wild boar." I may be jinxing myself.

Miss Olivia is doing amazing. She is developing quite the little personality. Every time we go anywhere she is a social butterfly like her dad. We started a garden this fall and she has her hands in the dirt and was a great helper planting all the seeds. She has had quite the productive summer.....she was boating just about every weekend with us or her Nana

ohhhh to be continued..... Oli want to go water the garden!

Feb Recap

So I fibbed on my last entry, but a lot has been going on. First and most important is Olivia turned 1. Wow, that even looks funny. I always hear my mom say that I will always be her baby..... well Olivia you will always be mine. She is walking with the assistance of one finger. She can do it on her own, but don't tell her that I like that she still needs me. She is graduating from baby food to eating almost anything we are. Her favorites are any kind of fruit, especially blueberries and strawberries. She had her first grilled chez tonight for dinner and loved it.

To recap, even though I don't want to but I want this in for Oli's book. She had a febrile seizure the early morning of her 1st birthday. It was by far the scariest thing that has ever happened to me. Thank god, Jonathan was on a vacation day from work and his parents were in town. Grandpa Rob and the monitors made by fisher price are my hero. Olivia is perfect now and the doctor says that it is common and not to worry, but how do you not worry. She is my world. Jonathan and my mom have been my backbone reassuring me that Olivia will never scare the Sh*t out of me ever ever ever again.

On a lighter note, her Luau 1st birthday party was a hit. Great friends, food and weather. I will post pics later. Her 1st birthday made it clear that I love being a mom and am looking forward to watching her grow. My favorite part of the party was watching her interact with her little friends. She had her buddies Liam, MacKenzie, Joey, and Sam. It will be so neat when they get older knowing that they have these life-time friends. XXOOXXOO

The pics today are from today. Olivia and I decided that we were going to skip our sandbox in the backyard and go on the boat with Grandma and Grandpa. It was 80 degrees and gorgeous. Olivia is definitely a boating kid. She played for hours at the beach, not once letting on that she was tired until the ride home. She was asleep before we passed Cindy's house. The fun on the water is just beginning.

Okay I have rambled enough..... Shawntel

New Year New Blog

I am a terrible mother, I promised myself that my New Years Resolution would be to make a weekly entry into Olivia's blog but sleep is sounding so much better. Olivia is more mobile than ever, not quite walking but crawling everywhere. She is so much fun. She has become a little person now, and I hate not playing with her.

To catch up my blog, Olivia is 11 months old. She has 4 teeth total (2top and 2 bottom), the teeth beside the top two are starting to push through. Surprisingly she is not too fussy. She seems to get a warm from time to time from her teeth, but overall they don't seem to bother her.

Olivia has graduated from army crawling to knee crawling and she is unstoppable. Jonathan and I are learning very fast what has to be baby proofed. She is able to get to her feet as long as her hand is on something. I think it is all a security blanket for her, but I feel like it is days away when she is running around the house. She took 3 studder steps towards me last week, and again yesterday. I hope she is walking before her 1st birthday. Maybe she will join us in the limbo line.

Her first birthday, wow! We decided not to do a traditional 1st birthday, because we are not only celebrating her first year, but ours for making it through. I was so nervous to be a mom, but it is by far the most rewarding thing I have done with my life. The way she smiles and screams when she sees me is so amazing. Sorry, back to the party. So we decided on a Hawaiian Luau. I am so excited for her party, and did some decoration shopping today.

Well this is a restart for Olivia's blog and I will diligently try to post weekly. Thanks for reading!

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Well as crazy as it sounds we went out on the boat Monday with my parents. It was 82 degrees out and beautiful. It has been a few weeks since Olivia has been out on the boat and she was itching to get on the water, OK maybe her Dad and I were itching. The ride was perfect, the purr of the engine mixed with the splashing of waves; someone needs to turn that into a sound machine.

When we got to the beach, Olivia started playing in the sand. Who knew how quick the sand found its way to her mouth. She loves digging and playing in the sand, the only problem now is that she is all sandy and the water is burrrrr cold. Jonathan dipped her feet in the water and she didn't seem to care. She just wanted to walk, walk, walk all over the place.

Little Miss Bumble Bee

We only had one trick-or-treater this year, our cute little bumble bee. It took us forever to pick out a costume but we finally picked the bumble bee and I'm glad we did because Oli looked so cute. We started the day with carving a jack-o-lantern. We tried to get Oli to touch the pumpkin goo inside and she wanted nothing to do with it. Shawntel found a recipe for holiday spice roasted pumpkin seeds and it turned out great. All those years of getting rid of the insides. After we cleaned up we put Oli in her bee costume and went up to see Grandma at work. She didn't mind the wings but I think that the hat must have been annoying because she wasn't happy until it was off. After a few pictures we went home and watched the Buccaneers take care of business. That night we lit up the pumpkin and waited for trick-or-treaters and didn't get one. More candy for us . I can't wait for next year I think we have a new favorite holiday.

8 months old water baby

Well it is official we will never leave the state of Florida. Olivia loves the water. She doesn't care if it is her little blue pool or the Gulf, as long as it is warm. We took the "Ho Hum" out yesterday. What an awesome boat Jonathan's parent have, the only problem is the name.... it should be the Olivia Morgan; it is only right, that she have a boat named after her in Englewood and Jacksonville. She is definitely a bikini girl.

Well Oli is a proud owner of two bottom teeth. They made their appearance and don't seem to bother her very much. She likes to use them on a pop sickle that her and her Grandpa share. She is chewing an her teething toy in the back, so maybe a molar is trying to push up.

Olivia is still army crawling around, she will occasionally get up onto her knees for a step or two, but she finds army crawling a more effective means of moving. She is pulling herself to her knees a lot and every now and then to her feet. It scares me half to death because I am afraid that she is going to fall and bump her head, but when she does fall, she laughs and continue playing.

We are getting Olivia's winter garden ready. Hopefully we have better luck with our winter garden than we did with our spring one. We are going to plant green beans (Oli's favorite), mustard greens and tomatoes.

New addition......

Well we knew it was going to come eventually but never realized how excited we would be that it has finally proven to be true........ OLI HAS A TOOTH! Her first tooth made its debut Wednesday afternoon on daddy's watch. It is starting to poke through on her lower gum line. This may be the end of breastfeeding. Olivia doesn't seem to really be bothered too much by it and we are hoping that it continues not to be a tyrant.

Speaking of firsts, Oli sat up on her own. She was lying next to daddy on the floor on her back. She rolled over and proceeded to put her knees up underneath herself and pushed to a sitting position right in front of daddy. You would of thought she did a magic trick by the way daddy was screaming in delight. The next morning we heard her laughing and carrying on in her bedroom to find her sitting up in her crib waiting on us to get the day going.

It still amazes me that she is already 7 1/2 months old, but what really amazes me is what she is capable of. I always thought that babies were babies until they hit 1 year old then they formed a personality and were fun to be around. I can definitely admit that babies are fun from 6 weeks on (Oli started sleeping through the night!). Olivia has such a great personality and seems to be a social butterfly when we take her into stores. We are enjoying her so much cannot wait to see what the future brings.