Olivia is 1 and it's interesting how close the milestones for both Robin and Olivia have been in terms of actions. On April 20, Olivia took 6 steps, and Robin took her first steps at 11 and a half months too. Olivia has learned the ASL sign for "drink" and "more." Her "drink" is a bit of a flail, but we get the point. And her "more" is exactly like Robin's was, just pointing her two index fingers together.
Throughout the day, I keep a log of interesting things that the kids do as notes on my iPod. Very handy, especially for someone with a sporadic memory like mine. The problem is that ever since Olivia has become mobile, I'm noticing that those notes get old quick. I wrote "Olivia can turn the music on her exersaucer all by herself"... which we have now taken down because she is too big.
One comment that is still unfortunately timely is the "Zombie booger face". That's all I had to write in my notes to remember exactly what I meant. For the last 2 MONTHS Olivia has had one cold after another. It's the price we pay for going out a lot I guess. I suppose if I stuck everything in my mouth, I'd get sick a lot too. As to the above mentioned zombie booger face. When she wakes up, there it is. It's much better now. And I'm sure she'll be glad to read this some day in the future and see that on her first birthday, Daddy wrote about her mucous prone face.
We are (knock on wood) very lucky with our little Olivia. She's healthy, happy, dances like a maniac, sleeps though the night and mows down food like she's a reincarnated trucker. I suppose she might get embarrassed by that comment too. We love you Olivia.
