Today She Is One

Jan 25, 2013

It’s hard to believe my sweet lit­tle niece Olivia is a year old, today. As you can see she is a super happy baby. Olivia has brought loads of joy to our fam­ily and I am so happy for face­time. It’s so excit­ing to see her look closer into the phone and smile at me as well as clap her hands and play peek-a-boo. Although our first game of peek-a-boo was totally an acci­dent on my part but she knew exactly what she was doing. I talk with my hands and when I put my hand on my head she thought I was want­ing to play peek-a-boo and started play­ing and of course I instantly played until she lost interest.

Olivia’s first year has had many mem­o­rable moments of won­der­ing why her par­ents sat her next to orange col­ored balls called pump­kins and dressed her up like a sweet lit­tle straw­berry, she tugged at many a heart string with her sweet smile, she is already prepar­ing for the techy world and seems quite excited about com­put­ers… although, this aun­tie is going to push art really hard, she can do both… she mas­tered the abil­ity to eat solid foods and was pretty proud of it too and has enjoyed play­ing with dad’s phone and tak­ing photos.

My birth­day wish for Olivia is for every year to be filled with as much love and hap­pi­ness as her first. That she always expe­ri­ences beauty and kind­ness from oth­ers and that she knows I love her dearly. Oh and that I’m not going to give up on her wear­ing a head­band. She’s a lit­tle Princess in train­ing and Princesses wear head­bands. Although, if she gave me that face below in per­son I would quickly fold like a cheap tent and take it off.

Happy 1st Birth­day, Olivia! Aun­tie Lisa loves you.