Technology

For the past few weeks, Olivia has taken forever to fall asleep at night because she's playing/jumping around in her crib and repeatedly throwing her blankies out and then screaming "blankie!" until someone comes and rescues them. The other night, I put her down, and then was surprised when she stayed quiet for a while. I checked the video monitor, and she was sitting up, but quietly messing around with something (I assumed it was her little blankie). Since she was quiet, I turned off the monitor and went on with my evening. A good hour later, I checked the monitor again, and she was STILL sitting up. Weird, I thought... so I went in to check on her.

Stinker had smuggled my iPhone into bed and had spent the last hour and a half watching Curious George and playing games!

Technology junkie.


P.S.
She's also discovered the joy of stealing food out of the pantry. We heard her say "cookie" the other day and found her escaping up the stairs with a full bag of Chips A'Hoy. And then the next day I found her drooling brown... girlfriend had shoved two chocolate caramels (with sea salt, my favorite) into her chubby cheeks! I can't keep up with this kid.

This Week

We've taken full advantage of a relatively dry week and spent as much time outside as possible over the past few days. Yay for sunshine! This California girl is definitely getting over the whole winter thing.

Olivia got to reacquaint herself with her old friend Mr. Crab (aka our sandbox).


Of course, she spent most of her time dumping the sand out of it.


Oh, the joy of window decals.


We also went to the park downtown to feed the ducks. Apparently, feeding the ducks really means stuffing one's face with the crackers.


And then running away from the ducks when they try and get in on the action.


After I took these pictures, we got in trouble because it is "illegal" to feed the ducks at Bellevue Park. I can see why, they're rather aggressive little things!

Buddies

We headed out to one of the local wineries in Woodinville over the weekend with some friends who have a daughter Olivia's age. We had a great time wine tasting, and the kiddos loved exploring new territory!

Olivia's necklace obsession is rubbing off on her friends...

1.19.11

We had our friends Ali & Maren over today for some park action followed by fingerpainting. Fun!

Olivia had a rather odd technique, and decided that she'd rather paint the back of the paper (and her face and her pants while she was at it).


Buddies! (For the moment, at least :). Olivia seems to spend half of her playtime running away from the other kids in fear that they might want to take her toys! We're working on sharing. It's tough.

1.18.11

Maybe it's the teacher in me, but nothing makes me happier than seeing Olivia bypass all of her toys in favor of snuggling up with a good book. She's getting to the point where she'll sit on her own for a few minutes and "read" to herself, and it's so cute to watch her!


"Oh David" has quickly become a current favorite.

Even up-side-down.

Another current Olivia obsession? Her blankies. She has three of them and insists on dragging at least two them all over the house at all times. And she has to have them all in her crib or she refuses to go to sleep and stands screaming "blankie" until she gets them all. Fun.

1.17.11

Doug has been sick, and therefore hasn't been able to play with Olivia, so she's resorted to wearing his stuff...

1.11.11

We had some snow last night, which is a pretty rare occasion in our area. I dragged Doug outside at 10pm, and he promptly chucked a snowball at me and then shoved another one down the back of my jacket. He's so nice & mature. But I did manage to take a few photos of the loveliness. I know that this doesn't look like much to my friends who deal with this all winter, but to me it seemed pretty magical...



I'm almost embarrassed to show these next two because, yes, we still have our Christmas lights up. I tried to get them down the other day but Olivia's hands got too cold (she still refuses to wear gloves) so there's still plenty of holiday cheer at Casa Perry!




Now it's raining and everything is turning to slush and I must admit that I'm a bit bummed that the prettiness is fading to normalcy... Thank goodness that we have plans for hot cocoa, cupcakes and story time with friends later this morning!