Bathy Time

Olivia loves taking a bath. After dinner every night she says "bath" because that is when she takes one. She is really into laying flat in the tub with her head underwater. In fact, that is how I had to bathe her the other night, as she would not sit up until it was time to get out. Olivia also loves to brush her teeth. BY HERSELF. After bath and putting on jammies, she then puts her finger in her mouth and pretends to brush as a reminder that we need to do that next. Here are a couple pictures of Olivia in the tub and a nice little dancing video for you (also in the tub).

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Ow, Roar, Ahh Ahh

So, it appears that Olivia is finished teething for the time being and her appetite has returned. The kid ate more for dinner last night than Chuck and I combined. Just when I thought she was done eating she looked at me and said "more". I hesitated because she had never said that before, she had only given me the sign for more. Olivia saw the confusion on my face and I could see the wheels start turning. She again said "more" and when I still did nothing, she finally signed it. Smart kid. She also told me she wanted pudding for dessert last night. Yes, she said the word pudding.

Olivia finds great pleasure in teasing me by calling me Dada. This of course pleases Chuck to no end. I asked her yesterday who I was and she said "Dada" and then smiled. I asked her again and this time she said "Pop Pop" (that's what she calls my dad) and smiled. When I asked her a third time I was again Dada. You can bet she knew who I was when she was crying for dinner last night though "Mama Ma". Little turkey.

Whenever Olivia sees a cat or if you ask her what a kitty says, she says "Ow". She also growls when she sees a lion or you ask her what it says and when you ask her what a monkey does she acts like she is scratching her pits and says "ahh ahh". Every single item that she sleeps with (blanky, Petunia, Debbi, Night Night Bear and Bob - I know alot) are all called Bob now.

Operation Get Rid of Binky starts tomorrow. Wish me luck...

Oh Baby

Olivia's new thing is to say baby as much as possible. She says it to me, to Chuck, to the dog, anything. She doesn't just say baby, but she will say things like "oh baby" or "yeah baby". She also throws in "hi baby" and "bye baby". She has also started rubbing my tummy and saying "baby" and then hugging me.

Olivia now says "thank you" (it sounds like "tang too" when Olivia says it) whenever she is given something. She usually whispers it as well. She is able to look at ceratin pictures and tell me what they are (she says "ow" for cat - you know meow) she also knows on, off, up down, in and out and we are starting to work on colors. Also, when we are picking up the living room for the night, Olivia now helps put her toys away, though most of the time she turns around and gets them back out.

Unfortunately, Olivia has been a little turkey this week. Of course she chose the week that Kim was on vacation to start teething again, so no relief for me, Her mood is great one minute and the next she is the biggest crab ever. She is hardly eating and is constantly drooling. I know for sure 2 new bottom teeth have come in (I accidently found them the other day when trying to pry my fingers out of the clutches of her teeth) but she will not let me in to see if anymore have popped up. She is now up to 14 teeth for sure.

Below are a couple pictures of Olivia's battle wound from when Aunt Dani and Bridgie came from Pella to babysit on Tuesday morning. First time ever Dani babysits and my kid gets a gash on the eye . . .

Whenever she gets the chance Olivia hightails it to the bathroom to play with anythign she can get her hands on. As of lately, it's toilet paper.

From the Mouth of Olivia

Olivia is speaking more and more lately. Here are a couple of her cute moments.

Now, I don't know how I failed to mention this when I wrote about our trip to Minneapolis, but I did. As we were in the car heading somewhere (not sure if we were on our way up, to the game or heading home) we are all just talking and hangining in the car when all of a sudden I swear that I hear Olivia say "shit". So being the person that I am, I look over at her and say "Olivia, did you just say shit"? She looks right at me and says "shit". My response, "that's what I thought". Guess I need to watch my vocabulary a little bit more.

This morning Olivia sneezed, so I said "bless you". She looked at me and said "thank you". She did it again later in the day to. Then when I sneezed she said"bless you" to me.

Olivia can also say many other words (up, down, hat, mama, dada, dodo, milk, bath, shoes, mine, hi, bye, pup, toes, toast, night night, bob, please, thank you, no, don't and whatever else happens to pop out from time to time) and she is repeating everything (thus the word shit). She is also beginning to sing, though I have no idea what she is singing, as I have yet to really make out any words.

Over the last couple of days, we have discovered that Olivia really likes mud. She likes sitting in mud, playing in mud and eating mud.

Olivia now wears a pink baseball hat on a daily basis. However, the hat must be worn backwards (she doesn't like it the normal way) and when she gets mad at Kim she takes it off and throws it down (thata girl). I wonder where she gets this behavior from?