Happy Girl

The past few weeks Olivia has been fighting an ear infection AND teething (poor kid!)...making her tired, clingy, sad, whiny and attached at my hip.  But...with the help of antibiotics and some TLC she seems to be back to the happy smiley Olivia we know!  Getting into everything (especially Christmas trees these days), playing with her sisters and finally..not hanging on her mom (YAY...I finally have my hip back!). 

I worked today and when I came downstairs for coffee, Olivia had this little outfit on (see below).  Kate apparently had picked the whole outfit out for her little sis and was very proud of herself.  I had to snap a few pics and when I said..."Lou Lou...lets take a pic" she walked over to the fireplace, plopped herself down, and gave me a wide toothy grin.  She must know this is the usual picture spot...signs her mother may have a picture obsession.

She is getting so big!  Starting to say more words..."bye-bye, maamma (Grandma), paw-paw (Grandpa), Pa-Pa (Patty our favorite sitter!), Va-Va (Ava), Date (Kate), Det-Det (Jet), wewwow (yellow), ju (juice), Dog, and Bir (bird)" to name a few.  She also loves her animal noises: woof, moo, roar, tweet-tweet and my favorite..."ribbit" when she sees the big frog in her room.  Olivia tries her hardest to keep up with her sisters, and doesn't stand for much (we're currently trying to curb her recent hitting phase...if she doesn't like what you've done...she'll walk up to you and whack you!  Ugh!  Poor Kate is usually the recipient).  We're working on it.:-) 

Anyways, I had to snap a few pics of my growing Lou.  Can't get enough of her smile and spiky hair!

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