If you didn’t know, Olivia doesn’t care for toys, so don’t buy any for her. We’ll just throw them out. “Ha ha, Jon is being humerous!” No, I’m serious, DO NOT buy her toys.
Ok, with that out of the way, she does seem to like shoes, boxes, containers, cats, & harmonicas! She’s daddy’s little hillbilly.
After a long day at the lake, she just couldn’t stay awake any more. She was pooped!!!
I know, two posts in one day, we’re crazy. This one is just as good as the last. First up is Olivia doing her favorite thing: playing in the water! She really likes to wash her hands, swim, shower, bathe, brush her teeth, whatever!
Next is something new. We had to get a new life jacket for Olivia this year because she outgrew her infant size jacket that she wore last year. In fact, she can’t even wear the next size up… it won’t zip over her belly. The new jacket wasn’t adjusted correctly yet in this video, and we got it to stop riding up on her so that she’s more comfy, and it does fit her very well now.
Anyway, we had her on the dock and asked her if she wanted to jump. Olivia will repeat a word instead of saying yes, so she said “jump” a few times. I got in the water and… my kid doesn’t know the meaning of the word fear! (mostly because she’s only 19 months old and its a difficult word to explain to a child)
Yes, we’re also getting her dock/boat shoes that don’t slip!
I’ll upload this in HD later, but you get the idea. She’s definitely a daddy’s girl!
Before youtube was a huge site (and before google owned youtube), Google had their own video site. I hosted some content there, and it really sucked as a service. Anyway, I haven’t seen some of these videos in a while, and thought you might enjoy them.
Olivia loves to play games with us now. She really likes one in particular…
She also enjoys sitting in chairs for some reason. Kathy bought her a new chair to sit in at the lake and Olivia really enjoys it. We tested it out this weekend 
I can’t even keep up with the number of words that she knows now. Her list of German words is getting bigger too, and we’re trying to work with her some, but its tough since we don’t speak it at the house. Anyway, Olivia loves being more responsible, and she wants to do everything on her own now. She laid on her back on the floor trying to put pants on (over her shorts) for about 5 minutes yesterday.
She loves being outside and running around.
She also enjoys feeding herself.
Some of you may or may not know that we have an elevator that we use on a daily basis to get downstairs to the basement/garage. Olivia gets to ride in it as well and she really likes it. Today this happened….watch the video.
It took a lot of convincing on Olivia’s part, but Stan (the cat) finally gave in and he’s officially friendly with Olivia. Also you might notice that Olivia is wearing little girl panties. She’s doing pretty well with the potty training and she does her best to tell us when she needs to “pee pee”.
My kid doesn’t need a lot of fancy toys to keep her happy…
She loves to eat popsicles with mommy too!!!