What's New....

Well I have been trying to figure out what is new and exciting in the Fleck House, and I decided to show some of the skills Olivia has been working on lately.

Brushing her teeth.

She is sort of getting the idea, but it doesn't always go well. Lately she lets me brush a bit, but then she uses her tongue and pushes out the brush.

We'll get it one of these days.

I also decided to introduce silverware to Olivia. Now I do not expect her to use it...yet. I just wanted her to startgetting familiar with it. So I try to get it out everyonce in awhile and let her play with it.

Not quite the way it goes, but this too will come with practice.

Our dogs are very patient with Olivia. She loves petting them and getting up close to them.
One day I caught her trying to sit on Dakota. God Bless him, he never moved!

Olivia still isn't walking on her own, so there are times she spends her day walking around the house pushing some of her toys.

She loves playing in her toy room and has recently figured out how to get on and off one of her rocking toys. She is definitely showing her independence.


It's hard to tell in this picture, but this is how Olivia and I spend our entire day...
She has a hold of my hand and is leading me wherever she wants to goaround the house. The second I try to slip my finger out of her grip, she turns around and gives me this look that seems to say "Give me that finger. What do you think you are doing?"

Olivia has also been practicing going up and down stairs.
Getting up on the landing hasn't been a problem...


But I have been teaching her the safe way to get down off the landing.

She is getting braver where she will do this on her own without me around. Little does she know, I still watch her when she "plays" over here. I'm glad she can practice with stairs, and if she were ever to fall I would definitely rather her fall down 2 steps then an entire flight of stairs.

But of course, I would rather her not fall at all. I am just being realistic.

Well that basically sums up what we have been doing through these winter months. Walking all over the house, playing with our toys, taking naps, and occassionally getting out to the mall so we can play at the tree house. As you can see, there is no time for me to get anything around the house done. Oh well. I wouldn't trade this for anything!!