Da-dee, ap-pel, and a play date

Olivia can say "Dada" and "Daddy" now. She has been following Nicholas out of the room and just loving him when he is here. Here she is trying to go on his trip to Pasadena:



I swear Olivia said apple yesterday when we were eating apples and singing about apples. I know that sounds implausible, but I swear I heard it...twice.

We had a fun play date with some friends of our's yesterday. Leslie has two boys, Archer who is 17 months and Will, who is four, I think. The both were super great with Olivia and are both super cute. Leslie has a great deck with lots of fun toys--play house, cars, dinosaurs...I know Olivia will want to go back for more!






Leslie, Will, Olivia, and I went to CHOM today for St. Patrick's day. They had green coins hidden all over the museum to cash in for prizes. Will did great finding them, and Olivia did great putting them in her mouth. Will got a green hat, a necklace, and a pencil. Olivia got a green necklace, and Will got her a green flower bow for her hair! He is SO sweet! No pictures at the museum, but I will take one of Olivia with her hair bow and post later.

Other notes: Olivia is sleeping from 7 PM to 6 AM now, waking once or twice per night. On a great night she sleeps until 4 AM, takes a bottle and then sleeps until 6. On a typical night, she sleeps until 1 or 2, needs comforting, sleeps until 4 or 5, takes a bottle, and sleeps until 6. Her morning nap is around 9 AM and is about 45 minutes. Her afternoon is lengthening. Yesterday she slept for 1.5 hours. Today, she is asleep after 1 hour and 35 minutes. Shocking. She usually wakes up after the first sleep cycle of 45 minutes and needs comforting to go back to sleep.