Blessing Day!

Sweet little Olivia Lynn was blessed today!  Tim did such a good job (he always does) and Olivia was so good!  Tim said she let out a sweet little "coo" at one point during the blessing.  She had two blowouts this morning, but luckily none of them while her dress was on.  I changed her out of the dress as soon as possible just in case.

These first pictures weren't taken today, but I just thought they were cute.  She might end up being our only blue-eyed baby.  I know I've said it before but she really is a good baby.  She already sleeps through the night and she doesn't cry once she does wake up, even when she's waiting to be fed.  She always gives us smiles and tries to talk to us.  She went through a stage of wanting to be held all the time but now she's content to just be in the same room as all of us.  She doesn't demand food every 2 hours, so that gives me time to take care of other things throughout the day.  She's just a perfect little angel!!!

We were going to bless her last Sunday but we got the flu and a stomach bug in our house.  Luckily Olivia didn't get it since she's the only one who can't have meds and thanks to everyone's prayers, blessings from Tim, and tamiflu and some pills for stomach, everyone is healed except for an occasional cough out of Cooper and Gracie.

Trying to talk to me. . .

Sweet little grin. . .

Her beautiful blessing dress!  Thank goodness Tim convinced me to order a bigger size.

The picture below shows how I was feeling too while taking her pictures.  I was getting so frustrated because I couldn't pose her and there was always clutter in the background because I've gotten behind on the house. Thank goodness I was able to crop most of that out.  I kept thinking "I wish Heidi were here!"  Haha!  Poor Olivia must have felt my frustration too and Cooper was crying in the background because I couldn't handle all the kids around while in this stressful situation so they were "gated" in the girls room, and he wanted out so bad.

Part of my frustration was that her hands were always flailing in her face, or in her mouth, right when I tried to take a picture.  That's why my hand is in this picture, holding her hands down.  She still looks so cute in all the pictures though!!!

We didn't have much time once we got to church and that was when she had one of her blowouts (right when I went to change her into the dress), Lindsey said she needed to go to the bathroom right as we got there, and the bishopric told Tim that there was a minor change in the way the blessing should be given (not really a change, just a way that wording should be, which is often not done properly.  Instead of saying, "we bless you that . . . you are addressing Heavenly Father, not the baby, so you would say "bless her that she. . .) so Tim was so stressed out with adjusting the wording and me wanting pictures taken, that he made himself sick.  You wouldn't have known it at all because the blessing was beautiful!

Anyway, here is our family on Olivia's blessing day!

We love you so much Olivia!!!