A great start to 2012

What can I say? The weather has been great, Kirk and Miyuki had their third baby Julian, Ken and Yvette had their third baby Gustave, and we just came back from Mexico last week! Good luck to them. That's the bonus of being the youngest: I get to see how it goes for everyone else before deciding on a third or not ;)















Robin and Olivia are seeming to have a great time with each other, when they aren't trying to pull the toys out of each other's hands that are "MINE!!!" They've even started to have private jokes with each other. One day at music class, Robin decided to get over her shyness by running around with her hand over one eye and bellowing "One Eye!" This has become a LONG lasting running joke, that Olivia picked up like a sponge.

One night while Grandma was babysitting the girls, she was softly singing Olivia to sleep with her head on Janet's shoulder. Janet held her up and asked "Are you ready for sleep?" and Olivia replied by looking her in the eyes, putting a hand on her own face, and shouting "One Eye!!!"

Olivia has made a tremendous amount of advancement in the last couple of months. It's no wonder with her big sister really. The other day, Robin sat down with an alphabet book and slowly tried to teach all the letters. She still calls Robin Kiya, but every once in a while she calls her Roppy.

The following list is a few things she has said over the last couple of months that were endearing, but she now can say what she really wants and has stopped using them:

Uhuh is I want to, I'm going to, I want you to etc
Can you say Olivia? Me!
Olivia says Heh heh one.  Means "This one."
She full on said Macaroni.  With vigor.

Today, she rediculously said her first very clear 9 word sentence : "Daddy watch me do my socks all by myself", which goes very well with the fact that she wants to do EVERYTHING by herself. Good thing she's almost as big as Robin.

Robin is still a very clever and verbose little (very little) 3 year old. Although nights like tonight's breakdown before bedtime reminds me of something Kirk once said: "It's not the terrible 2s, it's the terrible 3s"

We still have our little struggles. We encourage the kids to eat their vegetables with such vigor that one would think they would get scurvy if they didn't. I do recognize when it's time to give up and I catch myself saying " Olivia. Olivia. Olivia. Please eat your peas and stop popping them on the table". I certainly can't complain though, as I'm sure I'll look back at these days and wonder where the time went. We just signed Robin up for preschool at Laura Secord a few weeks back. Won't be long before she's 4 and in school. Eep!

Sandos Caracol, is in the Mayan Riviera and the resort was spectacular. I'm working on a video of it now. We used a waterproof camera and about 90% of the pictures and videos are of the kids swimming. I'll try to make it interesting.