Chad and Leslie are proud to welcome little Olivia Grace into the world! (born July 20, 2009)

You can email us at lesliestevens07@gmail.com or csteven1@gmail.com, or feel free to leave your comments after any of the posts--we'd love to hear from you!

If you haven't already, click on the link for "Olivia's Endowment at Texas Children's Hospital" on the left to learn about “The Olivia Grace Stevens Endowed Fund in Neonatology” we've started at Texas Children's Hospital to help other babies and families in need, and to find out how you can contribute if you're interested.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Life at Home

It's been two weeks now since Olivia came home, and it has absolutely flown by. We have been keeping so busy and having so much fun with Olivia that we have neglected the blog, so it's time to provide an update! As you can imagine, Olivia has had a lot of "firsts" over the last couple weeks. To name a few: watching her first Penn State football game on TV with Daddy, taking her first (of many, I'm sure) trips to Target, going on her first stroll around the neighborhood, etc. And we've documented it all with pictures along the way of course!

We've settled into a pretty good routine with Olivia--she and I stay home during the day and our main activities are eating, cuddling, hanging out (with Olivia in her little Boppy bed on top of our bed), playing with her various toys, looking at her red/black/white flashcards that Daddy made for her, changing lots of diapers (and outfits...somehow she often manages to soil a couple outfits per day!), and then getting lots of special time in with Daddy when he gets home. Fortunately Chad's managers at work have been so wonderful and understanding, so he has had a lot of flexibility in his schedule and gets to join almost all of Olivia's doctors appointments and just generally spend lots of time with us.

Here are some pics from the last couple weeks:

Daddy & Olivia walking around our 'hood on a nice cool evening


Miss Olivia in her bouncy chair getting inspected (a.k.a. sniffed) by Chip--he is very interested in and very protective of his little "sissy"



Olivia & Daddy on college game day--Penn State beat Temple 31-7!


Olivia's first time wearing a dress (thanks Gramma Mary!)



One of Olivia's new favorite pastimes--napping with Daddy! This was nap #1 captured on film...

Nap #2...

and nap #3!


Of course sometimes Mommy and Olivia like to nap together too...

Who knows how long it will be until we post again, but we'll try our best to keep up with it, in between all our activities with Miss Olivia! Thanks to all for your continued interest, thoughts and prayers--we appreciate it now as much as ever!
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 4, 2009 at 3:18 PM

    I hope you are continueing to enjoy your new life as parents and that Olivia is soaking up all she can! It is so neat that we can logg on and catch up with what is going on with you guys and see the wonderful pictures of Olivia!
    We think of you often and hope life with a new baby continues to be a blessed experience for all of you!
    Love, Jodi, Ken, Jarrett and Sarah

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  2. AnonymousOctober 10, 2009 at 9:32 AM

    what fantastic photos...............Olivia is really trooping along,,,,,
    Love to you 3,
    Aunt Ann

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