Facing Forward

I figured I would post a picture of our mini ice storm. It was actually very pretty out this morning.

Livi is finally doing well with her story time again. In fact, she is even paying attention and learning from story time. Pajama Time is one of her favorites. Now when the page comes up where the character is brushing his teeth, she will rub her finger in her mouth and imitate him. At least she is on a path of good hygiene.

As I said, we turned the car seat around today. She seemed to really enjoy it in the beginning, but then soon realized, same confinement, same boring drive, same nothing to do, same cranky Livi.. Actually, she was better than normal, but still let us know she wasn't happy.
She is still climbing everything she can think of. Here she figured she could climb on her activity table. No pictures of her actually on it because this is one thing I wouldn't allow. Sorry Livi!!

New Trick

Olivia has a new trick.  Well, climbing is not a new trick, but climbing onto the futon is new.  She now can get on the futon and loves to walk around like a crazy girl laughing, running, and falling.  She is very wobbly up there so needs total supervision or else she will end up on the floor.  Such a climber.  We need to keep her off of our couches in the living room though, just like the dogs.  We don't want her climbing on them when our back is turned.
Sunday we are planning on visiting Mima and Grandpa Rob, assuming that the weather holds.  It may be icy in the morning because the roads are very wet right now and the temp is below freezing.  I will take a quick drive tomorrow morning to see how the roads are and make the decision then.  The storm has really iced up the trees and power lines around here.  It is beautiful, but dangerous.  I guess we will know tomorrow morning!  We turned her car seat around today and look forward to driving with her looking at us as opposed to facing the back seat.  We hope it will get her in a better mood on her car trips.

Right Round Baby Right Round

Olivia had her first successful week at daycare this week. Every day was good and to top it off, she napped 1 1/2 hours today at YW. Yay Olivia. Perhaps she is starting to enjoy herself there.
She has changed so much just this week. She has really started talking now. "Doggy", "Cookie", "Kitty" and also knows a lot of her body parts (mouth, tongue, eye, hair, nose.) It seemed to just suddenly happen this week.
Along with talking and body parts, she has taken to spinning. She loves to spin around and around until she can't stand any more. Don't know where she picked this up, was probably YW. It is pretty funny to watch. Oh, and she has also taken to pulling the beret out of her hair so we had to change her hairdo a bit, hence the one sided pony tail.

Another Play Date

Sunday Olivia had another play date with Ellie, the daughter of another professor at PC. They had a good time together, and Olivia is getting better at playing with others. Please excuse the jammies, she woke up 1/2 hour after her guest arrived and wanted to get right to playing.

Olivia has become quite the climber. We have had to take the little blue chairs from her table away because she moves them around the house and uses them to get to high things, or just to get higher up for fun. She even went as far as taking the diaper box we put on the floor when we got home from the store, pushing it to the table, climbing on top of it and trying to get stuff off of the table. She is really a little monkey now.
Livi now officially says "doggy." She has gotten real good at it and knows how to use it as well. I was even holding her the other day and had a bull dog on my shirt and she laughed, pointed to my shirt and said "doggy." I think the words will start coming more and more now.

Big Jammies

So what happens when Olivia wears jammies that are too big? They look like this, and what is even funnier is seeing her run down the hall in these. Guess she has a little more growing to do!

Friday was pajama day at daycare (she wore a different pair) and the end of another week. This was the first week that Olivia made it through with out crying. She even took a nap one of the days this week. Lets hope this is a sign of things to come!

Vacuum Crazy

This is how excited Olivia gets when Mommy is cleaning the house.  I have to wonder, does she love dogs or vacuum cleaners more?

Whose Daughter?

I will let the video speak for itself, but is there any doubt whose daughter this is?
(Google Video is fixed finally!!)