Sunday, November 29, 2009

Thanksgiving and more

We had another Croatian Thanksgiving.  This time hosted by the Dukan family.  The menu is slightly different from your traditional Thanksgiving dinner, but the overindulging part is the same as anywhere.

This was Olivia's 2nd Thanksgiving dinner, and the first one where she could taste a whole variety of foods.  Below are some shots of her with Duke and Toni (for the Croatian reading crowd, Lambasa is still in action).




























Posing in her outfit.


















Olivia loves to read!!! Every night she brings us books and wants us to read to her.  Thankfully, we are fully stacked with children's books in both English and Croatian. 














Last week, Olivia got her first haircut.  The bangs were getting a little too long, and something needed to be done.  This is Olivia before the action started.  What followed could not be filmed...














She also loves to play with blocks.














On Saturday, we went to get some professional pictures taken.  During the photo shoot, she acted like a Diva and would not cooperate much.  We still managed to get some good pictures.  This is the outfit that she wore.  

















Sunday, November 8, 2009

Fall

We had some unusually warm weather lately here in Chi town. We tried to be outside as much as possible to soak in the sun while we can. Olivia is learning new things every day. This morning she took a brush from Karen's makeup bag and started brushing her face. This afternoon she was dribbling a basketball and scored her first basket (she put the ball back in the basket with the rest of the balls, but it still counts for 2 points)