i had a day off this past week and was excited to spend it all day with my little olive.

i had a doctor’s appointment downtown that morning, so i packed up olive’s things, got ourselves in the car and headed into awful traffic! i thought that making my appointment midmorning would be fine in avoiding traffic but since it was raining…it made for terrible traffic!

[ready for her outing // carters’s headband, little tots long sleeve onesie, gapkids pants, trumpette socks]

we finally got downtown and we scored a close parking spot! i put together the stroller and ran towards the office. i was already so late! i used to come to this place every month, multiple times a month, while pregnant with olive. so it was different coming back with a five month old…the babes that was in my belly for so long was now chillin’ by my side. so cool.

[hanging out downtown]

[on our way to wicker park]

after our appointment, olive and i went to wicker park to hang out. our old hood…*sigh*. it was a beautiful day out and perfect for a stroll around the neighborhood. we picked up some starbucks and we stopped into a few stores during our walk. on my agenda was to stop by sprout {a favorite store!} and pick up some organic cotton fox pajamas for little miss olive {they are so stinkin’ cute!}. our most favorite footie pj for olive had a fox on it {it was from carter’s} and hc loves to sing ‘what does the fox say?!’ to olive in her fox pj’s! alas, she outgrew them and needed a new one so we could continue our little song and dance with her that she loves!

[oooohhh, banh mi is open!]

[the pretty elementary school on division]

after our stroll around wicker park, we headed home but not without stopping a zillion places along the way!!! we had to go to target to exchange an item, we had to get stamps and drop off mail at the post office, we had to drop off donations, head to babies r us to do an exchange, and pick up some items at buybuybaby! oy! it was a long way before we got home but when we finally did, olive got to chill while i ran around putting things away we had purchased and cleaning things up!

i was finally able to relax a bit with the wee one and we had some quality time together. she’s so cute!

[i love, love this baby]

[capturing sweet moments]

[one photo at a time…she is so serious sometimes]

[since she was born…i love giving/getting baby kisses]

[muwah!]

i then prepped olive’s food {avocados!} and fed her. that is when hc came home! yay!  all in all, it was a very busy, hectic day. olive was a trooper and was totally along for the ride the whole way. she was so chill the entire time i had her out {and that was a long time for my little babes}.

we had such a wonderful mommy/daughter day together!

xoxo