I have extraordinarily bad beadhead in the morning, and it appears that I have passed this onto Olive. Now that her hair is getting longer, it just keeps getting better and better.
On this particular occasion, she made me think of this:
Do you see the resemblance?
I just have to share this fun little project I have been working on all weekend. I took a little break from sewing and used up a Shutterfly coupon that was begging to be redeemed. Big thanks to Modern Parents Messy Kids for the clever little toddler book idea! I had such a good time putting it together for sweet Olive. Here's a preview:
I hope Olive enjoys it! My favorite page is U...what's yours?
If you saw my last post, I talked about Olive's transition to the "big girl" bed. I'm glad she has taken to it so well. I finally took some pictures and did a post about her bedding on my other blog.
She has been pretty cranky lately--chewing on her fingers non-stop, slobbering everywhere, etc. I'm sure teeth are to blame, as usual. I wish they would all just come in at once so we could be done with teething. Bath time is always a happy time, thank goodness to have that!
She is going to be 19 months old this month. My how the time flies.
Effective tomorrow, I am a widow (once again). Kevin will start up with school and work again. I wish he could have a little bit longer of a break! I guess I do like routine, so it will be nice to get back to that.
Yesterday, Olive turned eighteen months old. Can't believe my baby girl is not so much a baby anymore. She is certainly very loved and spoiled.
Here she is playing with her singing tea set from Grandpa and Granny Goertzen. She loves to pretend and it just cracks me up. She didn't need any help pretending to drink from her tea set. She'll sip from the cup and say, "mmmmmm! Mee mee (yummy)."
I was happy to realize that this cute little dress fits! It was a birthday present from Grandma Rawson and goes perfectly with her little pink cowgirl boots (Christmas present from us).
How is it possible to be in Utah for ten days in December and not see any snow?! Weird, right? Really, I'm not going to complain because I still got to wear my sweaters but have safe roads to drive on. Awesome.
As usual, I got caught up in the Christmas excitement and forgot to take lots of pictures. Here are the few...
Let's start off by showing how scared Olive was of the car Kevin's parents bought for the grandkids... Her fear is only equal with that of the vacuum.
I don't have any pictures of Olive opening presents. But don't worry, later I'll post plenty pictures of her enjoying them... After Christmas we went down to St. George. It felt like the autumn weather I have been craving so desperately. We had a good time playing in the leaves...
Kevin liked throwing shovels of leaves into Olive's face. I think she enjoyed it.
Olive has enough hair for a pony tail. Kind of. It's really a hassle to even attempt to do this because she throws a big fit when I try to do it.
She has her own ideas of style. For example, a simple plastic embroidery hoop makes a nice double headband!
On bad hair days, a hooded sweater is perfect!!! She looks so fancy coming out of her cardboard box. She is so easily entertained.
Yesterday, we had our family pictures taken at SawGrass Park. We saw the usual baby alligators, turtles, and squirrels. It was my first time seeing a racoon scavenge for Starbucks.
He carefully climbed out of sight without spilling a single drop. Now that's skill.
I liked many of the pictures, but it was hard to find one where everyone was smiling, sitting up straight, not blinking, etc. Here's my favorite turned black and white:
Here are a few more... (Kevin nixed all the ones where he is leaning over...they have some of the best ones of Olive, though.)
I was snapping a few photos of Olive the other day and realized I caught a nice picture of her new teeth! She has four on the top that just came through all of the sudden. I never would have expected to find teeth so adorable!
Also, (unrelated to teeth), she has started grabbing her pants. It's hilarious to watch.
Oh, Pinterest, how I love thee...
I saw an idea to make a ball pit by filling a pack-n-play with plastic balls. I told Kevin how cool I thought it was and he ordered 200 balls immediately from Amazon. It was a great decision! Olive seems to really love playing with them. Her favorite thing is to dump them out all over her bedroom floor so she can swim in them.
Dad decided to stuff Olive into the container so she could be completely immersed! Ha ha ha! She loved it!
And my favorite part? My neighbor, Bethany, watched Olive this morning while I was a witness for Kevin's "trial" for school. I went to pick up Olive from Bethany's house and discovered that the kids had been playing with giant Legos. Bethany told me that Olive had been "swimming" through them and was afraid she was going to get hurt. She was really baffled as to why Olive would do such a thing! But I knew! Ha ha ha! She was playing with them just like those plastic balls!
I don't believe I have mentioned it before, but Olive loves Tangled. Actually, she is obsessed with Tangled. She probably watches it twice a day. She especially loves the music (she gasps dramatically before each song and during the lantern scene).
When Grandma and Grandpa Goertzen were in town, we took a little trip to the Disney store. Olive was totally entranced by a Rapunzel doll that sings when you touch her hand. She also kept trying to touch Rapunzel's hair through the tiny opening in the plastic. Grandma and Grandpa bought it for her and I was sure that we had found her favorite new toy.
Once Rapunzel was released from her plastic prison, Olive wouldn't touch her. I tried to show her how to play with her and she suddenly didn't want to be near the doll. It was the weirdest thing. She still keeps her distance from Rapunzel but will occasionally reach down and grab the hand to make her sing. She is so silly.
Maybe Olive is still having nightmares about one of the little girls at Disneyworld dressed up as Rapunzel.
We celebrated Halloween at Disneyworld. I am already excited to go again next year!!!
Kevin and I dressed up as Mary Poppins and Bert. Olive was a [grumpy] cat.
I seriously can't get over how much fun it was! It's considered a "special event," so you purchase a ticket that lets you in the park at 4 p.m. At 7 p.m., everybody else gets booted out and the party begins! There is trick-or-treating (where they basically dump tons of candy into your bag), a dance party, a Halloween parade, fireworks, and of course, rides!
I was under the assumption that Olive was too little for any rides. I was elated to find out that she could go on just about every ride. We went on "Pirates of the Carribean," "Aladdin's Magic Carpet Ride," "It's a Small World," "Peter Pan's Adventure," "The Haunted Mansion," and a few others that are escaping my memory at present. And the best part is that there were hardly any lines. We could have stayed as late as midnight--but we ended up leaving around 10:30 because we were tired and had done just about everything we could do.
I hope to make it again next year! What a blast!
