Happy Birthday, Little O!

Today is Olivia's 2nd birthday. I thought it might be nice for her when she's older to be able to read about what she was like when she turned two. Favorites: *Color: seems to be purple *Stuffed animal: bunny (half blanket, half stuffed rabbit) *Food: blueberries *TV shows: Boobahs, Teletubbies,and Sesame Street *Books: Piggies, anything with Elmo *Friends: Nate, Zaza *Song: "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" *Things to do: Go to the park, go swimming with your dad, and ride on a "purple bagel". What Makes You Unique: You have a funny sense of humor. The other day you came down stairs with the potty chair pot on your head saying "Splish, splash, I was take-un da bath". You are very caring and nurturing. Yesterday, when Nate's baby brother Quinn was crying you went to check on him and patted him on the head trying to help him feel better. You often do this with your sister, too. It seems to upset you if she's crying. You'll give her a toy or say in your most caring voice, "Oh, what's wong, Phia? You love to take naps and ask for them often. This seems pretty unusual for a kid your age. People are often impressed that you know that you need sleep. You have a great imagination. You started pretending several months ago, which seems young to me. You like act out scenes that have actually happened, like waking up from a bad dream or having to take a time out. You also pretend that everything is a phone. I've seen you use a postcard, the snap on your shirt, and the flag on a toy mailbox as a phone. It's very James Bond. You LOVE books. Books keep your interest for a very long time. We check out gobs of books from the library. I think we both have every board book in the Lakewood Library memorized. We recently checked out a book about different trucks used for construction. You know the name of almost every truck and tool in the book, like tamper, crane with clamshell bucket, and bulldozer. Yesterday you counted to 10 for the first time. You started counting the snaps of your shirt and then just kept going. Some of your newer, more impressive words: different, backwards Things you say that are funny: You often tell me to have a good weekend. If Sophia is sleeping you'll say in a quiet voice, "SSHH, Phia sleepeem," and then walk up to her crib and look at her saying a in very loud voice, "Yep, sleepeem!" The other day you came to say hi to me in the bathroom. You had been in there for about 5 minutes, when you all of a sudden said, "OOHH NOOO!! Diapers mess!!!!" When I went in your room I saw that you had scattered about 25 diapers all over your room. Words that crack you up: cranky (even if you're really cranky) and noody (a word that your friend Nate uses for nude).