Some Accomplishments

The past couple days have been BIG for Miss Olive ...

1) She finally figured out her snack trap snack holder - We've been working on this for awhile, but up until yesterday, she was mostly amused by stuffing her entire hand inside and swirling and squirming it around until she crushed as many items as she could. Now, she's actually picking out a snack - in our case Baby Goldfish Crackers - and eating them one at a time. WooHoo for less mess!

2) She learned how to drink from a straw - So, I complained once before about my mission to find a sippy cup that Miss Olive couldn't bite to make it work, but rather a sippy cup she would actually have to learn to drink from. Oh yeah, and I didn't want it to spill everywhere.

I wanted the same thing with a straw, and I really don't think that it was too much to ask. I bought a couple types no-spill cup with silicone straws and was once again annoyed to find that they ONLY worked when you bit the straw. What the What??? Why would I want her to learn that straws work by biting them? So stupid. I threw them out without ever letting Miss Olive even try them. Then, about a week ago, I saw a kid-sized "frosty" mug -the kind with the liquid inside that you freeze - on the end of an isle at Kroger. It had a lid and a anti-spill (not quite spill proof, but good enough) straw that was plastic inside and silicone outside the lid.

We tried it last night at dinner, and it worked perfectly. The Ladybug thinks she is such a big girl using her straw cup. She's so very proud of herself.

Yes, my daughter did, in fact, learn to use a straw by drinking water from baby beer mug of sorts.

3) Miss Olive had her first taste of ice cream - The Hubby and I decided we'd made it just about one week shy of the Ladybug's birthday (in an attempt to avoid allergies, if possible), and we felt OK about jumping on board the ice cream train.

Just like there's no cookie/cake/candy/sweet anything Miss Olive doesn't like, I'm pretty there also will be no kind of ice cream she doesn't like.

We took her to the only appropriate place in Southwest Ohio (as far as I'm concerned) for your first taste of ice cream - Young's Jersey Dairy. Oh, did she love it. She has some of Mama's Lemon Custard ice cream from a cone and some of Daddy's Chocolate ice cream by spoon.

Not only did she like the ice cream, but the Young's plastic bib tied around her neck to protect her clothes from her ice cream adventure had a lion picture on it. She "roared" with joy.

Miss Olive's first bite of ice cream.

She liked it just a little.

4) Oh, and she learned to drive ...

Blowing kisses to her people.