Another long night

Last night was another long night.  It took a long time for Olivia to get to sleep and then she was up an hour after she went down.  Then she got up 3 other times during the night and was up at 6:56 a.m. Lovely....talk about being tired.

Today she seemed fine. She played and was her normal self.  I ran the Jingle Jog for Autism this afternoon and it was great to run in shorts and short sleeves! Brendon said she went down for her nap fine. We went to church tonight since we have some plans tomorrow.  She was pretty good.  She saw the the Advent wreath and said, "Wreath! Wreath with lights!" But she was pretty good overall at church.

Tonight same thing with bed time.  She didn't even want to lay in the crib.  I finally got her in it, sang Twinkle, Twinkle and finally I got so tired I laid down on the floor and just about fell asleep and she fell asleep so I finally snuck out of there.  I am sure she will be up soon!

Loving the cans.  She likes to take the cans out of the pantry.

2 Questions

This may be short and sweet...it has taken over an hour and a half to get her down to bed...frustrated...not even going to go there.

I have had 2 people ask me 2 different questions.

1. Did you ever think your life would change so much with Olivia?  My answer was both yes and no.  No because I knew life would be different.  Yes because every day is different.  It is fun to see her grow and change every day.  Yes because life just isn't the same anymore.  You can't pick up and go when you want to.  It is different but a good different.

2. The question I got today...Is Olivia fun? I would say so.  Most of the time she is pretty happy and even silly.  She likes to do fun things...even if it is knock on the shed door...to her that is fun.  So I would classify her as a fun little girl and pretty funny!

Names, Places, Phrases

Olivia had a fun morning at Susan's house today.  The best was when we were leaving she looked right at Susan and said, "Bye bye, Susie!" I think we were both shocked she said it to her.  I am so happy to see that she recognizes when we leave to say good bye.

Tonight she did a few more...she loves the phone.  She picked up the phone and said, "Call Mima!" I explained to her that Mima was not home tonight because Pipa plays volleyball.  Later on she picked up the phone again and said, "Call Mima!" I said Mima was not home.  She then replied, "Mima shopping?" I said no.  Then she said, "Mima volleyball with Pipa!" What a good memory!

After her bath she told me to clap. So I clapped and she said Gymbo.  So I did the pound, pound, clap we do during class.  She filled in the blanks when I stopped singing.  Then she said two friends' names that are in our class- Ethan and Griffin.  She also told me that at Gymboree we jump, slide, and go under the parachute.

Olivia also told me that she wanted to go to Target tonight.  I told her we could not go to Target because we had to go to bed. I am not sure if this deterred her at all...I have already been up there once.

I am so happy that she is starting to make those connections of names and places though!

4 Big Words

Olivia strung 4 words together today! She said, "Mommy big bite apple!" as I was eating my apple today.  I was so proud of her.  She does really well with 2 word phrases and 3 word phrases.  But I think this is the first 4 words phrase.

Last night was a full night of rest for all of us! She went down and never woke up until this morning.  Tonight...not so much.  I have been up there once but for a pretty long time.

Olivia and I went to Gymboree today and saw our friends.  She said Ethan's name really clear today.  The whole way to Gymboree in the car she talked about her BoBo stamps.  I told her that she would get her stamp at the end of class.  She was very excited to get her stamps at the end of class...she got 4 of them which made her super happy. 

I am hoping she is down for the night.......not getting my hopes up to high for it!

Rocking with her Lamby

Funny Girl

Olivia is becoming one funny girl! Tonight I was trying to get her picture with her vacuum and finally she said, "Cheese!" and gave a ridiculous smile.  She also made me laugh when she picked up the calculator and held it to her ear and said, "Hello?" She is becoming quite the parrot and copying things we say...we now need to be VERY careful of our words or else they will be repeated. 

Cheese!

 

 

 

Vacuuming

 Brendon and Olivia went to Gymboree this morning and had fun.  Last night I gave Olivia a little quiz of all her friends' names.  She did very well and said all of them.  She even said one that we see every once in awhile. 

Olivia is starting to use size words...big mostly.  I tried to show her big and little today but she focused more on the big.  She will now say, "Big bite!"

Olivia is also a pencil and paper fanatic.  Give her some paper and pencil and watch her go.  We have gone through several pads of paper. She now will say- pencil, paper, more paper, draw, draw Mickey, draw Minnie, color, circles, and lines while she is "drawing."

Mommy Loves Me

I know my mommy loves me...I wore the shirt today to prove it.  Mommy and I had some shopping time this afternoon.  We went to the post office...I even said post office.  Mommy said close enough and we mailed some letters and cards.  Then we went to the dollar store for some cinnamon for mommy's work.  I now say mommy work and daddy work. Then we went to my favorite place Kroger! I got to hold the bananas in the cart and help mommy put some stuff in the cart.  I was really good and got a sticker with Santa and a Reindeer on it.  Then we got gas.  I got a little upset in the car on the way home because mommy did not have a snack for me...mommy said she will do better next time. Then we played outside for a few minutes since it was 70+ degrees today.  I did not want to take a nap today so I only slept for 1 hour.  Mommy played the Hot Dog Dance song for me after we watched Mickey Saves Christmas after my nap.  I kept telling her, "Again!" to the Hot Dog Dance and danced.  Mommy taught me how to move my arms up and down and I said, "Move your arms!"

Mommy I am sorry I am driving you a little crazy at night with the whole sleep- not going to sleep thing.  I will try my best tonight but you already have been up here twice.  I am trying!

XOXO

Olivia

Playing blocks- make it tall!

Church and Sam's Club

This morning we went to church.. We are going to try to go every week since it is Advent.  Olivia did really well again at church.  She knew she had to be quiet and she sat down. She ate snacks and we only had to get one book out to read and she only yelled out, "Boogers! Gross!"  So church is going much better.

After church it was so warm I took her tights off.  Then we went to Sam's Club.  Olivia knows that she has to sit down in the cart and says it as soon as she sees the carts.  She had fun looking at all the stuff at the store.  We saw some Ho Hos (Santa), Christmas Trees, and got Daddy some snacks.  Olivia even got a sample of watermelon and ate it while riding in the cart.

We came home and played outside for a few minutes and had lunch.  I changed Olivia into some khaki pants.  I taught her how to say khaki pants! Funny! We did our usual Sunday routine of reading the newspaper.  Then Olivia napped and I took a nap too.  Brendon went hunting but didn't get a deer. While eating dinner tonight the Steelers game was on.  I taught Olivia to say, "Go Steelers!" Which made her Godparents Rick and Karyn really proud!

Bed time went better last night.  3 wake ups before 10 but then slept through the night until 7:20 a.m.! So far tonight 1 wake up....better...but tired of running up and down the stairs.