And she's gone......

Its sad that when you spend so much time with a little child, you can being to think that she is your own.

And then one day you find yourself sitting alone.

Depressed.

You keep finding her little toys around your house.

Her blanket in your bed (btw Nik- we have her purple blankie..opps)

and you wonder to yourself.... does she even think about me anymore.

Ok, so its really not that bad. But I will be honest and tell you that, I MISS HER! I am going a little stir crazy without miss Olivia at my heel! However, the exhaustion hasn't given me much time to wallow in my sorrows. It was a total of three weeks that we got to share with Olivia (a.k.a. "livers" - not to be confused with her dog "libbers") and boy did we have fun. I, again, have a huge respect for mothers that do this 24/7 day in and day out! Olivia was a peach- we had NO issues with attitude, NO accidents in her pants, and NO naps! Truly, she didnt take one nap. That is probably because on night 1 she heard Ted say the words "thunder storm" and it was over from there. EVERY night of the 3 week stay the three of us crawled into bed together, watched some curious George and then shut out the lights. It was like a 21 day sleepover. I tried to put her in her own room once or twice and then she would look at me with those eyes and say "what if there is a thunder...." and I would melt. For all you who are wondering.... I promise I will not sleep in bed with my child. :)

Ok, so here are some of my faveorite pictures from our time together.

Olivia is OBSESSED with playing baby! This was one of the ONLY times I was able to convice her to play with her baby instead of making Ted or I be the baby. She sat and read book after book to her baby.... it was precious.

Spaghetti night at the pool!!! Look at her face in these pics.


These are the "eyes" I was mentioning earlier....

Holding my girlfriends new baby boy. Liz was SO impressed at how well she handled him!

Making "pup-cakes" as she calls them....


We had to wait so we could frost them with Ted. They had more fun eating them then frosting.




Even though we miss her, we are so thankful that the whole family is home and out of the hospital! What a long 3 weeks for Jed, Nikki and little Maddie. We are so thankful that Mads seems to be doing better and will continue to pray for a life of "normalcies"! After these past few weeks of having a kid in the house, Ted and I are beyond excited to welcome our baby in just 9 weeks!