One more month, or should I say just a few more weeks until Olivia's big first birthday! This month she has almost exploded with new skills. She has learned that almost everything has a place to go - and mainly that place is in my mouth. She will share her food with you, as long as you let her put it into your mouth. She knows that glasses go on your face and it is so cute to watch her try to put them onto her face. She also has a facination over wrapping things around her neck. It's weird, but I've watched her countless times, she'll find a scarf, or play necklace, or powercord or whatever and she'll drap it over her shoulders and then drap it again and again and again, around her neck, under her arms, etc, until she is all tangled up in it. She also loves putting smaller toys into bigger holding spots. She is flummoxed by her toy ball popper...the object of that game is to let the balls pop up out of the hole, but she insists on putting the balls back into the hole...silly baby. She is in love with sitting on things, her toy bouncy horse, kid sized chairs, boxes...you name it, she will try to climb up and sit on it...unless it is her car seat, that she wants nothing to do with...me either, she's starting to get pretty heavy and I'm getting tired of hauling that thing around. She loves to help Daddy do dishwasher duties, her specialty is in the unpacking arena. If she ever hears the clatter of dishes or the washer being opened, she will drop whatever she is doing and make a beeline for the kitchen. She is also a big fan of reorganizing the pantry and pots and pans cabinet. It is actually somewhat helpful. She always seems to pull something out of the back of the pantry that I forgot was in there, so we end up having it for dinner. She's all about pointing while saying "dat" which I translate for her to mean "Hey you with the walking legs and the tallness going on...take me over to that whatchamacallit, I'd like to check it out, please!" She definitely has the "all done" baby sign down pat too, what a smartie! She's got 4 teeth and thankfully has only bitten me once with them. She has developed the bad habit of grinding those 4 teeth together, annoying? yes. But the first and last time I told her not to do that she laughed at me and I don't want to make it into a big joke like the bashing the head into the back of the highchair gag...Did I mention that? She thinks that is hilarious and will do it all the time if the urge to be 'funny' strikes her.
Today she walked all the way across the floor of her classroom carrying a book! She's only done about 5 steps at the most at home and I think it is because we carry her a lot more here at home than her teachers do. Well I guess that should be in next months post, but I will probably forget about it if I don't mention it right now!
Other than that...let's see...hair still curly, eyes still brown (but with a little blue/green ring around the outside...hang in there green!) poundage = 19 (I only know this due to a trip to the doc last week for an ear infection)
If you'd like to see my progress on her scrapbook, checkout this link...
http://picasaweb.google.com/ReyneeandTim/OliviaSScrapbook#
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