Kickball

Olivia has been practicing kicking a ball and has gotten pretty good at it.  She even completed a running kick.  I guess Grandpa Rob needs to put the soccer coach hat on early.  She may be ready.

Not Popeye The Sailor, But…..

Olivia got to have her first piece of popcorn this morning.  Needless to say, she LOVED it.  It was left over from last night and Brooke needed something to calm her down while doing her hair.  It worked very well.  Kept her nice and reserved while the pigtails were put in.  She kept asking for more (she has gotten very good at “please” which sounds just like “pssssss”)  So I tried to get her to use both words together, “popcorn please.”  I almost got that, however, corn is not in her vocabulary, but eye is, so I got “pop….eye psss”  which works just fine for me.  She loves saying it also.  She will finish a piece then look at you and say “pop…eye, pop….eye” or sometimes “pop….paaaaap”

Last night we played with her and her new kitchen that Grandma and Grandpa got her on their visit.  We decided to start getting her to learn the parts of the kitchen.  We would say “open the stove”, “put your bowl in the stove”, “close the stove”, “wash the dish” even got her to do the water sound when washing them.  She is very good in the kitchen.  She was even shaking the little salt shaker on her toy sandwich and making the shhh shhh shhh noise.  Will have to get some video soon of it for the blog.

She did wake up with pink eye again and has another cold.  Currently it looks like a cold, pink eye and a few teeth starting to come in.  She is a trooper, but very wimpy right now.  Growing can be hard sometimes!

Sassy Walk

I have mentioned Olivia’s tough girl walk before in previous posts but have not had a chance to capture it.  On Easter I finally got to get a few seconds of it on video.  I can’t tell if it is a “I feel pretty”, “I am sassy” or “I’m a tough girl” walk.  Either way, I like it!

Easter Sunday

We had a fun Easter down at Mima and Grandpa’s house.  Olivia had a lot of little Easter baskets with a lot of goodies in them.  She makes the cutest sound when she sees a basket full of colorful stuffed animals and things, kind of a little squeal type laugh.

We all hung out for a while waiting for Olivia to get tired enough to go down for her nap so we could eat.  We brought over our pack-and-play since she has learned to crawl out of Mima’s.  We put it between the bed and the wall so she would have no where to get out.  She definitely did not want to go down for a nap and screamed like crazy for an hour, but finally fell asleep.

We all sat down to eat and had a honey baked ham, mashed potatoes and carrots.  Then Grandpa started getting antsy for Olivia to get up.  Around 2:30 he said “Should we go get her up?”  She had not been asleep that long yet so we made him wait until 3:00.  When 3:00 rolled around we all went up stairs to wake her and play until it was time to go, we had planned on leaving around 4:00.

When Olivia got up, her Auntie Steph gave her her first Peep.  She loved it!  She could have eaten them all day.

  

 

Olivia also rocked some of her best dance moves for Easter.  We had fun watching her dance around to her favorite tunes.

 

Hope everyone else had a wonderful Easter as well!!

Happy Easter

Olivia made it to the Clinton paper, at least we think it was Olivia, the last name was Staffa (even though I spelled it twice for the reporter.)  This was taken at the PC Easter Egg Hunt.  The photographer took lots of pictures of her and this is the one they published.  Would have liked to see a front view, but this picture actually fits the story well with her walking away.

Happy Easter everyone!

Easter Countdown

Happy one-day-til-Easter!  Tomorrow we will be heading down to Columbia to Mima’s house to see the family.  Yesterday we received this beautiful tulip arrangement from Mom and Dad.  Olivia loved them as well, she always laughs when she sees flowers and wants to smell them.

Bad Hair and Blowouts

Well, weather wise it is going to be a perfect weekend.  How is it that the last few rainy and crappy weekends I feel 100% but can’t go out and ride, but this 3 day weekend it is perfect out and I am sick?  Where is the justice?  On top of that, Brooke is very sick as well.

So because it is a day off, and I was going to be selfish and go for a long ride this morning, we decided earlier in the week to just take Olivia to daycare as normal and pick her up at lunch.  That would give Brooke a chance to relax, and me a chance to do something fun.  Well, now we are taking her in today because we both want to sleep and relax and try to feel better.  I hope she does not catch anything.  But because Brooke is worse off than I am, she was unable to get up to help do Olivia’s hair, so it was all on me.  I did the best I could but she looks very homely. 

In another story, our little girl is getting bigger.  She is starting to have blowouts in her jammies now.  Poor Livi, cold toes at night!!