Father's Day

I wanted to do a quick post about Father's Day, even though I'm pretty sure Ryan has never actually seen our blog so he probably won't read it. This was our first Father's Day with Oaklee here and unfortunately Ryan had to miss it because he was in North Dakota at work. So this is the picture me and Oaklee sent him.

She's freaking adorable, right? I know.... Anyway, it was hard not having Ryan here and I hated that he didn't get spoiled because he is an amazing dad. He loves his little girls so much and does his best to give them the world. Oaklee and I are especially spoiled that he is willing to sacrifice so much so that I can stay home. Getting to be with Oaklee every day has been such a huge blessing. I know being gone from her for two weeks at a time is so hard on him but he never complains. And seeing how excited Oaklee gets when he comes home is so much fun to watch. She lights up when her daddy is in the room.

We are three very lucky girls to have you Ryan, Happy Father's Day!



Oddest child ever...

Our little Oaklee is almost one (WHAT? How did that happen). Granted my opinion is bias, but I swear she has one of the biggest personalities ever for such a little thing. She almost always has a smile and is always making me laugh. She's nut, just like her dad.

Over the last month or so she has developed the weirdest habit and I feel the need to blog about it. It all started with these little plastic puppies. Up to this point she had never been afraid of anything. My parents have all sorts of animals that she's been around since birth and never blinked an eye at. One day my mom found some little dogs and put them in her toy bin. This is what happened:

We tried again the next day to see if it was a one time thing.

As you can see, no improvement. Since that time she has decided to be afraid of the most RANDOM things. Here's the list of her current fears:

• Plastic dogs, but not stuffed dogs
• Stuffed dinosaurs, but not plastic ones
• Stuffed pigs
• Stuffed elephants
• Stuffed monkeys but not plastic ones
• Gloves, of any color or type
• Ankle or wrist braces (my dad has to take it off before she will go to him)
• Hashbrowns
• Old people (as far as I can tell the cut off is about age 65)
•  Balloons
• Dishwashers
• Vacuums
• Stuffed polar bears, but not the live one we saw at the zoo today
• Live sea lions, but not stuffed ones
• Certain dolls, I haven't yet figured out how she differentiates which ones she likes and which ones she's scared of.
• And lastly, sudden, loud noises. This one is pretty common I think, but for those of you that know Oaklee's dad, you know that with basically every day is one constant sudden, loud noise.

There are probably more that I can't think of right now, but you get the idea. She's crazy. But she's our crazy baby and we love her. And, if you can manage to keep all these horrors away from her you will get to see this:

Cutest baby ever, in my humble opinion.



Crazy Baby

Oaklee is definitely her father's child. She has a HUGE personality. She's always making us laugh and is able to get her point across quite clearly without the need for words. She is the most smiley baby ever. And much like her dad, she finds herself hilarious. This next string of pictures was taken over a 30 second period. I was just sitting there with the camera. I wasn't making any faces or talking or anything. This is all her just enjoying herself. Weirdest kid ever.....

Easter

It was Oaklee's first Easter yesterday and it could not have been better. Saturday morning we did brunch and an Easter Egg Hunt at my mom's. Ryan spent the day driving home from work, so he missed out, but it was a blast. This is the basket Oaklee got from my parents.

She wasn't shy about digging right in.
And of course, never far from her side, her best friend
Parker helped her check out all her new toys.

Oaklee feel asleep during the actual hunt, so we didn't get any pictures of that. But after she woke up we had some more fun playing. Who wouldn't want this in their Easter basket?

Ryan got home late Saturday night after working 12 hours and then driving 14 hours with no sleep in between. Poor kid. We were SOOO excited that he would be home for Oaklee's first Easter. We have 9:00 church, and after Ryan's long day I wasn't expecting him to go with us but he did and it was great. Between his being gone for work, and Oaklee being sick, it as been MONTHS since we were all three at church together. We heard some beautiful Easter talks in Sacrament and it was a perfect start to our day. After church we headed home to change and then go to Ryan's mom's for lunch. Here's our little Easter bunny on her first Easter.

Cutest bunny ever? I think so. At Dixie's house we had lunch with some of his family, including his cousin who has a little boy that is two months younger than Oaklee. Despite being younger, he has a good 4 or 5 pounds on her.

He has also started crawling, which Oaklee has no inclination to do. We had them spend some time on the floor in the hopes that Blaine would inspire her to start, but no. She just waited for him to come to her and play. Lazy or just clever?

After lunch at Dixie's we headed up to my grandparents house for dinner and another egg hunt. One of Oaklee's other favorite people, Jayne, was there.

I didn't get any pictures of this egg hunt either. Clearly I'm great at documenting. But it was an awesome dinner and so good to see everyone.

This last picture makes me giggle. At my parents house the day before each of us got a little present. The girls all got beach towels and the boys all got super hero t-shirts. Without planning it they all wore their shirts the next day to my grandma's (minus Hunter who was still in his church clothes). I forced them to let me take a picture, which annoyed all of them, but it made me laugh that they all matched. So cute. We have Parker: Iron Man, Aodhan: Superman, Kenny: Captain America, and Ryan: Green Lantern. Hunter's shirt was spider man.

Our Easter couldn't have been better, and I think now that Ryan is gone so much we both appreciate more the time when he is able to make it to these family things. Lucky for us the Easter fun isn't over yet! Kara, Perry, and Pete will be in town tonight and we are going to do all the fun Easter stuff with them. Oaklee hasn't dyed eggs yet so I'm excited for that. And anoter egg hunt with Pete will be so much fun. More pictures to come!

City Creek

Our little Oaklee just keeps growing. I can't figure out how to stop it. Luckily she's growing at a very slow pace and is still a midget for her age. Recently she found her toes and now tries to eat them any chance she gets.

She's just a rolly-polly little ball. It's adorable.

Here's the bright smiling face I see every morning. Lately she has decided to wake up VERY early so generally she smiles at me like that for the first half hour wondering why I'm laying on the couch half asleep still.

The bigger she gets the more playful she gets and it is SO much fun watching her play. She's a crazy nut just like her daddy. :)



Today Oaklee and I went on a big adventure! We are very spoiled and Grandma Dixie decided to take us on a date to the new City Creek mall in downtown. This mall is freaking amazing. It has so many cool stores and the mall itself is beautiful. It was so much fun to walk around. We got to go inside Tiffany & Co and find ourselves some diamonds. Then, the highlight for me, I got to try on some Jimmy Choo's!!! This first pair I'm pretty much in love with and if I had an extra $1500.00 to throw around, they would be mine.

This second pair I had to try on just to see what it was like to wear a $2700.00 pair of shoes. But I pretty much fell in love with them too, even though they are outrageous.

After spending an hour trying on ridiculously priced shoes I decided that I would be REALLY good at being rich.

After the fabulous shoes Grandma treated us to lunch at one of my FAVORITE places. Cheesecake Factory! This is Oaklee enjoying the food with her Nama. They don't like each other or anything.

Oaklee and I had such a fun day and are so lucky to have a Nama that spoils us so much!

Spring!

Ryan left again for work yesterday. :( But we had a fantastic two weeks home with him. Oaklee decided to recover from RSV finally, which we were very grateful for. And with her recovery came some spring weather! Of course we randomly got a snow storm in the middle, this is Utah after all. But we had some beautiful 70 degree days. And got to experience some 'firsts' with Oaklee.

Parker is on a comp indoor football team so we get to go

to his games up at the U campus. Here's Oaklee cheering

on one of her favorite guys!

Playing with Hunties during the game.

She actually really loves watching it. She sits entranced

for a good portion of the game. It's so cute.

And here with the star football player!

With this awesome weather came Oaklee's first swing ride!

She freaking loves it. It's so cute. Here she is with her Bapa.

Side note, I'm absolutely certain my dad never got on a swing

with any of us. Clearly he loves Oaklee the most.

Lovin the swing!

Swinging with two of her favorite cousins.

We also had our first day at the park!

Before we got out the old baby swing Oaklee had to

swing with mom.

Oaklee's first time on the tramp. She basically just looked

startled the entire time. I'm not sure if she liked it or not.

Enjoying the sunshine!

These last two pictures have nothing to do with spring, it was in fact on the snow day,

but they are so cute I had to throw them in. Yep, still squinting!

Now we are back to our daddy-less two weeks. The adjustment is always hard but Oaklee and I are spoiled with lots of family close by so we don't have too much time to get lonely.

On a much more exciting note, the last two days Oaklee has been saying "mama"!!! She of course has no idea what she's saying, but I'll take it just the same.

Primary Children's Hospital: Round 2

After getting sent home from the hospital Thursday we thought we were on the mend. The doctor took Oaklee off the oxygen Friday afternoon and she seemed to be getting better. Even Saturday morning she was almost back to her normal self. But apparently Oaklee decided our weekend was becoming a little dull and she wanted to liven it up. So Saturday night she started having trouble breathing again. I put her back on the oxygen, which thankfully was still at my house. She improved somewhat, but by Sunday morning we were on our way back to the hospital.

Here we are visiting our second ER room of the week.

Oaklee chillin in the rocking chair, waiting for the doctor to come in.

After a few hours in the ER, and an unsuccessful breathing treatment, they decided she should be admitted again. They even sent us back to the same room. It was a very long day of watching her breathing and hydration.

Sunday afternoon Ryan FINALLY got home from work and got to come join in on all the hospital fun. Lucky him. But I was very happy to have him there and Oaklee was THRILLED. You can't tell in this picture, because she was really tired at this point, but she smiled a ton when he got there.

Poor girl with all her wires.....

Late Sunday night the doctors decided she was good enough to go home again. Once again we were sent home on oxygen and will remain on it for a few more days at least I think. As you can tell in this picture she was so happy to be home again. Poor girl can't get any sleep when she's in the hospital because they won't stop poking and prodding her.

She has done really well so far today and her breathing is sounding and looking better. Here's hoping there will be no more hospital stays in our near future.