December happenings

Olivia loves Christmas lights and decorations. She was so excited to put the tree up and she is the official Christmas tree light girl. She plugs it in every morning and it has to be lit the whole day. Another lesson learned is the tree cannot have any decoration that is breakable so our tree is very bare. We started doing Christmas crafts everyday and we try to make everything into an ornament and let Olivia hang it up and that has worked very well. Atleast she leaves the gifts alone.

She really enjoys craft time too even though Mike and I end up doing a lot of the work. She is very proud of the end product. It is nice to expose her to cutting with scissors, using the whole punch, glueing, painting and such. On the plus side she really has a good attention span.

Olivia is growing so fast physically and intellectually. It amazes me how much she comprehends verbally and how observant she is so we have to start being careful what we say to her. She use to be able to walk under Mike's legs with plenty of clearance and that is no longer the case. I am pretty sure that Olivia is going to be a lot taller than me.