Saturday we received a Halloween package from Gail and Merle. It had candy-o-plenty. Olivia got some lolipops, and Brooke and I got various Gummies. We are going to save them all for Halloween though. It won’t be easy, but I think we can make it.
Thanks Uncle Merle and Aunt Gail!! Happy Halloween!
Since Olivia’s birthday is fast approaching and everyone will be getting together, I wanted share some Livi-speak with everyone so you won’t be confused when she talks to you.
1- Chicken: She likes to throw out the word chicken for no reason in sentences. Don’t be alarmed, there is most likely not a chicken around, nor has she been playing with a chicken.
2- Peas: If she asks for puppies peas, please don’t give her her stuffed animal and a bowl full of peas. She does not want any peas, this is just the way she says please. And thankfully she uses this word A LOT!!
2- sim-ee: This took quite a while to figure out. She would stand at the baby gate outside our home office when I would get home from work and be changing out of my work clothes and she would just keep saying over and over sim-eee peas… sim-eee peas… I racked my brain trying to see what in the room looked like a sim-eee. Then it hit us, a few times when I got home from work and she would stand at the gate crying I would say “want to come see me?” and lift her up into the office. So, sim-eee means “lift me over the gate so I can come see YOU…(see me)” Actually, more like “Lift me over the gate so I can terrorize the office and get into things I shouldn’t but I will act like I want to be with you just to get my way”
3- Gorgeous: I know you would normally be flattered if Olivia came up to you and said gorgeous, but in this case, for Olivia, it means garbage. She will typically come up to you with something dirty or gross and say gorgeous peas.
4- Moneys: Don’t worry, she is not being greedy if she approaches you and says moneys peas continually. She just wants her bunny. She can’t get the “Bu” sound down, so it is “Mu” instead. I have worked with her on this and said “bu bu bunny” emphasizing the “bu” sound, so what did she do? She said “bu moneys”. Perfect “bu” sound, but followed up with moneys. She just doesn’t get the point yet. I have a feeling that even if I did get her to say bunnys and not moneys, that in about 10 years the whole “moneys please” will be returning with a vengeance.
5- Plural: Well, she doesn’t know the word plural, but you will find that everything she has or wants in plural. Again, not that she is greedy, it just comes out that way. Moneys, grapes, puppies, etc, it is all plural.
6- Waamaa: Watermellon. Only her favorite fruit. And yes, it stains. She must wear a bib when eating waamaa. I have learned this the hard way with a brand new shirt of hers. It is a daddy thing I guess.
7- Mana: Banana. Typically followed by “hold it” because she does not like eating a banana from anyone else’s hand but her own.
8- Reba: AKA Olivia
9- Ice: Her little fruity ice popsicles that she occasionally gets for dessert.
So hopefully this has caught you up on some simple ways to communicate with Olivia. Oh, and remember, she may not pronounce a lot of words correctly, but rest assured that if you use any profanity or words you don’t want her to know, she will repeat them with perfection. There will be questioning what she is saying in that case!
Here is a quick video of some of her babbling right before bed. This is the time she gets the most talkative. Video quality is bad because it was dark, but I mostly recorded this for the audio.
This past weekend was Fall For Greenville time again! It is our favorite Greenville event of the year. We left after Lee’s nap, which as is usually the case when we have a big day scheduled where she needs to take a normal nap, she took forever to fall asleep and therefore she woke up late leaving us to head out much later than we wanted. We got to Greenville around 4:00PM and took a while to find parking.
We walked down Main street looking at all the food vendors. When 
After the ride, we let Olivia run around in the grass behind Mass General Store. She loves that little strip of grass and there are always kids to play with there during events. She immediately found some kids to run around crazy with. She couldn’t get enough!
This year with the Zaxby’s Chicken.
Last year with the Zaxby’s Chicken. 
We took a quick video of Olivia running around with her new friends. She loves it.
We also saw a father with his son sleeping on his chest. We thought
We later went and ate pizza for dinner where Olivia was a very good girl through dinner. We were stuffed, but we love that pizza place. We headed back down Main Street to meet up with some friends from work to say “hi” before heading home. By now it was 7:00 (1 hour from home) and her bedtime is 7:00 sharp. She was holding up very well though, and had a good ride home. She was very tired when we got home though and fell right asleep. We had a fun time as usual.
Included in her assortment of footwear are sandals, tennis shoes and now rubber gloves and high heels. Livi has recently become the owner of her own pair of heels, and she walks in them pretty well. The rubber gloves are something that she loves wearing on the rare occasion that I let her into the kitchen. When I do, she goes strait for the cabinet where they are and immediately get them out and puts them on.
Well, Olivia informed us that her name is not Olivia, Livi, Livi Lee, or even just Lee. Her name is Reba. Anytime we ask what her name is it is always Reba. Grandpa Rob is still Boto, however Auntie Steph is definitely Stephie, not Dogo. Mima is Mino, Grandpa and Grandma are pronounced correctly too.
It is ok Reba, you will get these names right someday real soon!!
Livi got some big girl panties to wear. They fit perfectly. We put them on her the other night and she started dancing around with them on. I guess she likes wearing panties over her diapers instead of just the diaper. No, this is not a every day thing, it is just for fun now and then.
Marcia and Rob got Olivia some new pajamas last weekend. They were her favorite, Dora!! We put her in them Sunday night and she LOVED them. She ran out of the room after her bath dressed in them to show me. She ran up to me, stopped and put her arms out laughing and then said “Dora.” She already knows how to model clothes, scary!
Here was a bug and she was trying to “Touch” it. She loves her bugs.
