Happy Halloween!

Well, by now you all probably know that Olivia is going to be a big sister. She seems to be mildly excited about it. We got a cute card from a friend with a duck on the front and I told her it was for the baby. So Olivia said, "Awwwww, here baby!" and she lifted up my shirt and put the card up it. I asked her what we should name the baby and she said, "Beluga" which is a word that she recently made up and uses for everything. So little Beluga Blocher will be joining our little family around May 9th and I will be even worse at updating this blog, if that's possible.

Halloween was fun this year. Olivia was a spider. She is not at all into playing any sort of dress up so I was worried that she wouldn't want to wear her costume. But when we got to the mall where we went the night before Halloween to go store to store for candy, she saw all of the kids and seemed to really want to get into the festivities with them.

Generally speaking, Olivia is just the happiest child I have ever met. She loves to pretend. She pretends she is holding baby animals in her hand and asks me to pet them. She loves the part of her library class when the teacher takes his wand and gives all of the kids pretend "reading dust" in their hands. She pretends she is a puppy and has me feed her from my hand. In addition to pretending, she loves to sing and dance. With the singing, her favorites are Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the Alphabet (done with 99% accuracy). With the dancing, she pretty much just has one signature move where she sways back and forth and kicks her legs from side to side while she is swaying. It's not fancy but it just makes us laugh every single time she does it. Her other favorite thing is running around naked. She just takes off running from room to room laughing when we take off her clothes to put her pjs on. This is NOT something she learned from her parents, by the way.

Don't forget that I put a larger version of the little pictures on the left waaaaaaay down at the bottom of the blog. I remove them though when I update.