The other day Olivia told me she wanted to read me a book. She told me to sit down on the floor, while she sat on the ottoman to her chair. She picked up the book, I don’t remember what it was. She looked at the pages, then turned the book around so I could see it, pointed to something on the page, and said “What’s that?”
I responded to whatever it was, and she would say “That’s right,” then turn the page, and repeat the process. Apparently that’s how we read books to her!
She does have one book she really does read (well, I guess she has it memorized)–“Hurry Hurry.” She will read the entire book to you. So cute.
She has this thing where she’s a little compulsive about wipes and cleaning herself. She’ll get hold of a wipe and wash and wash and wash herself with it, wiping her face and hands. She thinks wipes make great toys.
The other day she was coloring–she drew a black circle, with long tentacles reaching out from it. “Spider” she told Wyatt. I don’t know who showed her how to draw a spider. But she did. Yesterday she was coloring on her magnadoodle, and drew a little girl–a head, with eyes, a mouth, and hair. I was very impressed. She’s not even two and a half yet! I don’t want to be one of those parents who thinks their child is the next Picasso, but at the same time, she definately is both observant, and coordinated in her coloring.
She loves planes–she’s always making them with her blocks. She’ll fly around, arms outstretched like an airplane. And she repeats–“Mommy go on airplane”–a leftover thought from my recent trip to Texas.
She is such a little sponge too. Anything you say, or anything that happens, she will repeat over and over again. She still tells me once every couple days about the time she got soap in her eye (about two months ago), or whenever I’m on my bike, she’ll say “Mommy Crash” (about a month ago). Any new words we say seem to stick to, because it will be weeks later that we will revisit something, and she still remembers the vocabulary of it.
It’s actually really fun to watch her little human brain and personality develop.