You're invited! Paper invitations went out on Monday to local people and immediate family, but if you're reading this blog, consider yourself officially e-invited to Olivia's birthday party. :)
Olivia is getting tired of feeling the floor on her knees. The logical solution would be to stand up, but logic has no place in the mind of a nearly-one-year-old. Olivia's solution is to crawl with ONE knee on the ground, but to save her right knee (or is it her left? It's always the same one, but now I can't remember which) by using her foot in it's place. Her lumbering half crawl half bear walk makes her look a bit like a monkey when she moves.
Recent accomplishments: using a sippy cup and turning off lights. I'm not sure yet if she knows how to switch lights back ON. Also, after naps, Olivia will turn and point at her mobile until I hold her up to play with the animals for a little while. They have bells in them, so they jingle AND turn. How exciting.
I have a knock-off Pandora bracelet from Wal-Mart, and I bought beads online: a heart that says "mom", the letter "O", and a little dangly girl with an August birthstone on her belly. Unfortunately, the little girl was decapitated (or perhaps de-body-ated?) after only two months. I wrote to the company, and they sent me a replacement. Bryan told me I should take a picture, though, so that when this little girl breaks and I replace it with something sturdier, I can show Olivia what bead I used to have to represent her.
I decided quite some time ago that I wanted a piano in the house, so I've been slowly saving up for one. I wanted a real piano, but they're difficult to move, difficult to tune, and we're not sure our floor could support the weight of one. I finally came to the conclusion that a decent digital piano would suffice, especially if it looked and felt as real as I could afford. Last Friday I ordered my piano (complete with a piano stand, 3-pedal bar, and bench) and Tuesday it arrived! I spent Olivia's nap setting everything up. A previously undiscovered benefit to having a digital piano: I can play while Olivia naps. All I have to do is plug in some headphones and I'm good to go. :)
Bryan and I ultimately want to build our own house. We've been playing around with designs recently, and discovered that we're too mathematically minded to ever come up with the uniquely odd "dream house." We recently had the idea of building a model (that's one of the steps you're supposed to take) out of, wait for it... LEGOs. Brilliant. We ordered a bulk set, knowing it wouldn't be enough, and got started. Fast forward a couple of delightfully wasted hours, and you have us contemplating an unfortunately small amount of space and deciding that we need to design bigger. :) Here are pictures. We scaled it to the lego man that you see standing in one of the rooms, but he had to be only 5 feet tall for ease of wall placement.
Recent accomplishments: using a sippy cup and turning off lights. I'm not sure yet if she knows how to switch lights back ON. Also, after naps, Olivia will turn and point at her mobile until I hold her up to play with the animals for a little while. They have bells in them, so they jingle AND turn. How exciting.
I have a knock-off Pandora bracelet from Wal-Mart, and I bought beads online: a heart that says "mom", the letter "O", and a little dangly girl with an August birthstone on her belly. Unfortunately, the little girl was decapitated (or perhaps de-body-ated?) after only two months. I wrote to the company, and they sent me a replacement. Bryan told me I should take a picture, though, so that when this little girl breaks and I replace it with something sturdier, I can show Olivia what bead I used to have to represent her.I decided quite some time ago that I wanted a piano in the house, so I've been slowly saving up for one. I wanted a real piano, but they're difficult to move, difficult to tune, and we're not sure our floor could support the weight of one. I finally came to the conclusion that a decent digital piano would suffice, especially if it looked and felt as real as I could afford. Last Friday I ordered my piano (complete with a piano stand, 3-pedal bar, and bench) and Tuesday it arrived! I spent Olivia's nap setting everything up. A previously undiscovered benefit to having a digital piano: I can play while Olivia naps. All I have to do is plug in some headphones and I'm good to go. :)
Bryan and I ultimately want to build our own house. We've been playing around with designs recently, and discovered that we're too mathematically minded to ever come up with the uniquely odd "dream house." We recently had the idea of building a model (that's one of the steps you're supposed to take) out of, wait for it... LEGOs. Brilliant. We ordered a bulk set, knowing it wouldn't be enough, and got started. Fast forward a couple of delightfully wasted hours, and you have us contemplating an unfortunately small amount of space and deciding that we need to design bigger. :) Here are pictures. We scaled it to the lego man that you see standing in one of the rooms, but he had to be only 5 feet tall for ease of wall placement.
Nice house, but only a five foot tall man? Neither you nor Bryan would ever fit inside...(even though if you had more Legos the man could be a tad taller ��)
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DeleteWell, we started by making the man 6 feet tall and pretending he was Bryan, but he was only five dots long. We were able to do the math of "every 5 dots equals 6 feet" when building the outside of the house, but inside wall placement became a bit more of a hassle. Finally we just changed the man's height so that each dot would be a foot. The walls are seven bricks high (and the 5-foot man is four bricks high), so the height is okay. We would fit. :)
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