Olivia's birth day - October 21st, 2008!

Olivia Grace Dotson was born on October 21st, 2008, at 12:55pm by C-Section. She cried as she was delivered and as they were working on her, but within a few minutes, she settled right down and almost looked like she was going to sleep - a mellow, laidback baby even from birth! And she loves her sleep! :)


Olivia weighed 8 lbs ,4 oz and was 19 1/2" long at birth!! She had a head full of soft, dark hair with a little waviness to it. What a precious, beautiful blessing she is!
Madalyn came over in the afternoon to meet her baby sister for the first time and she was very excited!! She wasn't quite sure what to think at first but she really wanted to hold her!! Our family of four!!

Madalyn brought a special gift that she picked out herself for baby Olivia, a sweet bunny rabbit with blankie! She was very excited to give it to Olivia!

Baby Olivia had a few special gifts for Madalyn, too - a special t-shirt which has Madalyn's name and says "I'm the big sister", as well as a special doll. This way she could have her own baby to take care of when Mama is taking care of Olivia - the doll cries and coos, drinks from a bottle and even wets her diaper. Unfortunately when we got the doll, there were only boy dolls left, so we thought we could just change the blue clothes to pink and then she'd have a girl doll. Little did we know that the dolls are anatomically correct - definitely all boy! :) So, it's a little different than what we were hoping, but she still loves her doll and will put him in Olivia's swing, car seat, etc and burp him, feed him, just like we do with Olivia.