Be sure to check out the post about Gretchen's birth if that kind of stuff interests you.
Points were awarded for Baby Guesses. Nobody got enough right to earn any bonus points, but William got the randomly generated bonus:
Jillian - 2
William - 7
Alison - 2
Justine - 2
Norie - 2
Olivia - 2
Eva - 2
Kara - 2
Jacque - 4
Bryan - 4
Scott - 3
Julie - 2
Steph - 2
Olivia hardly ever spit up. She drooled like a champion, but wasn't very spitty. Gretchen, on the other hand... She spits up like it's her job. In fact, she should ask for a raise. In fairness, she's getting better at regulating her intake appropriately as she gets older. The end of the week was much less wet than the beginning.
I mentioned that Olivia learned the word "no." This week she perfected it. She used to be so agreeable, saying "okay" for everything. Now there are days when I don't hear more than two "okay"s the whole day. :( Her "no" is super cute, but it gets old after about 12 times and then is just obnoxious for the next 97...
This post is post number 100! Some of them don't have much in them because they're posts I added after I technically started the blog. Nevertheless, yay for post 100! To celebrate, I'm giving 10 points to the reader who made the 100th comment (which was way back in September): Congratulations, Jillian!
These past two weeks, Olivia has been showing interest in dressing herself. By which I mean she demands that I let her choose her own clothes. I can sometimes convince her to pick from the choices that I select, but sometimes not. The result is rather interesting. I particularly like the polka dot turtle neck with the tight teal argyle stretch pants. Mom tells me that I used to wear horizontal stripes with vertical stripes and claim it was okay because they were both stripes. Or I'd wear stripes with polka dots and point out that both had pink in them. As far as I can tell, Olivia does not put that much thought into her choices. I may be selling her short; perhaps she IS putting that much thought into it and simply cannot verbalize it.
On Tuesday, my grandparents came down to Springfield and on Wednesday they took the girls and me up to Michigan for Holy Week. We spent the week visiting with family, which was wonderful. Bryan joined us on Friday night. Gretchen was baptized at the Easter Vigil service on Saturday night (pictures next week), Sunday was more family, and then we were on our way home.
Pictures:
Olivia reading and doing tricks:
Gretchen:
More Olivia (pictures by Great-Grandma A):
Olivia reads with various aunts and uncles (pictures by Great-Grandma A):
Olivia skates with Uncle Joe:
Super cute pictures taken by Jillian:
Olivia eats lunch with Oma:
Did Olivia take one of the car pictures herself?
ReplyDeleteShe did. The mirror picture is a self portrait.
DeleteAw, her first selfie... as a member of the facebook generation, I'm so proud :)
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