Books, Shoes, Climbing, and Moving up to Level 4

Olivia just loves her books and her shoes.  Every night she has been taking her shoes out of the drawer (I guess I need a new hiding spot for them).  She is even trying to put her shoes on! After she takes her shoes out then she reads her books.  I think a good majority of the books she has memorized by now or at least recognizes them and makes correlations between picture and spoken word.  She often points to the pictures and says- dog, octopus, daddy, baby, teeth, eyes, duck, etc.  I am glad that she is making those connections already.

Climbing has started! Ahh.... 2 days in a row after her nap she is trying to climb out of the crib! Yikes!!! She puts her feet on the bars and pulls on the rail.  We are so not ready for this.  Also tonight she handed me back her toothbrush and wanted to climb up the cabinet! I do think we are ready for a step stool.  It will make life easier to wash hands and see herself. 

We are moving up to Level 4 at Gymboree! We are excited and sad.  Excited because we will be 16 months and running around like the others but sad to leave our class with friends.  Olivia even said, "Bo, bo" today for Gymbo! So cute!! She did great today at Gymboree and played with lots of musical instruments.  She banged some maracas on a drum and loved it.  She even threw a ball in the basketball hoop.  She is getting too big, too fast!!

Reading her books in the middle of all her shoes! Look at the stack of books behind her that she already looked at!

All done! Next book!