Fall for Greenville

Yesterday we took Olivia to Fall for Greenville. It is Greenville's fall festival. It was packed for a Sunday. They close down Main Street to cars and set up vendors and rides all over downtown. It was a fun event. Olivia had a great time as well. We went down to the Falls, but they had all the grass closed for "turf preservation" so we couldn't get any good pictures of her with any flowers.
Olivia had a good time walking around down town in some of the less congested areas. She was just like a big girl.
At the end of the day we brought her into our favorite store "Mast General Store." She loved looking at all the stuffed animals, clothes, candy and books. As we were walking down the ramp to the lower area, there were a bunch of stuffed animal pelts hanging down along the ramp and she immediately went and buried her face in the softness. She loved it.
When we were done in the store, we decided to let her run around in the grass outside. A lot of kids ended up doing the same thing and Olivia played with them, running all over the grass. She really wiped herself out. One little girl in particular fell in love with Olivia and was all over her the whole time. She would help her up when she fell and even would kiss her on the forehead.
We got home at exactly the perfect time to do Olivia's night routine and put her down. It was a fun day!!

Dinner Party

Last night we went to a dinner party thrown by Fernando and Alecia (Psychology department.) They had invited some faculty from outside Psychology as well that had some kids between ages 4 -8ish. Olivia had a good time watching them play, but as usual, had more fun with Moxie (the rat terrier.) Olivia and I went in the back yard and we threw the Frisbee to Moxie for about 1/2 hour and she loved running after the dog the whole time. She may not have ever caught her, but had a great time either way. Livi also had fun trying many different foods from our and other people's plates. She had some chicken, beans, peas, corn, rice, and even some cupcakes (she strayed into the kids room and they had broken up some cupcake into crumbs onto a small end table in the room for her.) Brooke of course had made some awesome Halloween cupcakes for the kids. When I walked in, Olivia was busy scooping cupcake crumbles into her mouth. She was loving it. I got jealous as the cupcakes were for the kids only!!


Olivia also has a new tooth just barely coming in. It is her top right tooth. You can feel the little razor blade and if you look close enough (meaning you have to have her laughing hysterically laying on her back and peek at her top gums) you can see it poking out.

The night before last while Olvia was having dinner, we made stir fry and bread. Brooke decided to give Olivia some of our bread and see how she handled it. She loved it so much I had to get the camera out. She was laughing as she squished it between her fingers as she ate it. She was in heaven. We got some good video of her (and Chili as you will see) enjoying the bread. The girl likes her carbs!!

Jazz Hands

Olivia's second love (dogs being her first) is music. Brooke recently discovered that if she puts on interesting music for the drive home from Mima's house that Livi will kind of go into a trance. It is kind of amazing. She put on a "skat" song from the Tarzan soundtrack and Olivia just sort of sat there and listened quietly the whole way home. Mom's sanity may have been gone after hitting repeat and hearing the song the whole way, but it is better than a crying baby.
As we sat around last night and bedtime was creeping up, I put on some music to lighten Olivia's mood. I started with "Toddler Tunes" but it was a little too blah, so decided to try some Jazz. Livi immediately loved it and started dancing. She really likes Hip-hop, Jazz, some kids tunes, and Skat. We really need to play music for her more. Notice the arm that continues to keep beat after she falls on her stomach half way through this video. She just can't stop.

Computers

About a month ago I took Olivia to work on a Saturday because I needed to do some checking on one of the servers. Rather than doing it remotley, I thought it would be fun to take Olivia in the jogging stroller and get a picture of her with the computers. She had fun walking around looking at the computers and heading for all the keyboards. It was hard to keep her away from all the blinking lights and shiny objects.
Someday she will be able to tell me what every single wire in here goes to.

Squeelin' On The Square

Olivia had another busy weekend. She is quite the partier. Saturday was our annual Squeelin' on the Square event. This is where all the top BBQ spots compete for best BBQ and also sell samples of their food. You can buy samples or full meals, I prefer to sample a bunch of different places, and they are all GOOD.. After Olivia's morning nap, we loaded up and headed over to Laurens for the event. It was fun, there are different bands playing throughout the day and other little events. Tractor pull, horseshoe toss, car show, all the things you would expect at a small town event. There was also a petting zoo that we were excited to take Olivia to. She got to pet a goat, bunny and a chicken. She actually poked the chicken in the eye and grabbed its gobbler, but who's keeping track?





Olivia was also able to sit on her first tractor. She loved the levers and wanted to pull them all.



Olivia had a great time at the square. She even ran into a baby she had been wanting to meet. I look forward to the day when she is a little older and can sample BBQ with me. She will love it. I hope that chicken can see with its right eye this morning.. Sorry little chicken, but if it is any consolation, Olivia pokes what she loves. Just be happy she didn't have her spoon on her, you might have lost a beak.

Off the Wagon

Poor Livi, we had to go back to Zantac again. After 2 weeks off of it Olivia has been spitting up like a fountain, so we are going to try to again and see if it makes a difference. We really thought we had that solved, but I guess not.
Today we went over to Mima's house to celebrate her and Rob's belated birthday (Rob was unfortunatly out of town so was unable to enjoy the festivities.) We had a good time and had a lot of cake, as did Livi. Olivia was busy all day, walking around non stop. She became a tired little bean and had a hard ride home where she couldn't sleep, but wanted to. She finally slept for about 10 minutes in the car and that seemed to satisfy her until bedtime.

I also saw Olivia's results of eating the other day and had to capture her little mess on camera.
This is a little puff that was in her mouth for a while before she stuck it on her nose.

The New Toy

I promised a video of the new toy so here it is. I have had to do a re-install of my laptop so have been out of commission for a few days, but hopefully Olivia's World will be back in step now!
Brooke has been trying to find a place that gives baby flu shots so Olivia can get one. Seems everytime they come in, they sell out the same day. Oh well, soon enough I guess.

Again, sorry for the diaper shot....