10 Months Old

Peek-a-boo is a favourite! You love hiding your little face in boxes, behind furniture whatever you can find. When we ask "Where's Olivia gone?" We are greeted with a gorgeous cheeky smile. Your love for this game has continued to one of your Christmas presents from Aunty Courtney and Uncle Blake. They gave you a peek-a-boo pop up book. You love this book and are now grabbing the book, turning the pages and opening the flaps chuckling at the animals or vehicles that pop out at you. The other day I read you this story and then grabbed another book a couple of pages into the second story you took it off me and picked your peek-a-boo book up again ready to roar at the dinosaur again.
Another love of yours is animals! You can't get enough of them. Whether in real life or a picture of an animal. You love them all. Another story Aunty Courtney and Uncle Blake brought you for Christmas was Handa's Surprise. It is about a little girl who carries a basket of seven different fruits on her head to her friend. The trouble is the cheeky animals one by one take the tasty fruit out before the goat bucks a tangerine tree to fill the basket with tangerines. With each page you crack up laughing at the cheekiness of the animals taking the fruit with your own cheeky giggle. It is so contagious Daddy and I find it hard to carry on reading.
Going to the pet shop recently to get things for Ava you were in your element looking through the glass at the little puppies who were jumping up to say hello, the turtles and fish swimming around and the birds flapping their wings.
You have been busy pick pocketing Daddy for his wallet lately grabbing the necessary Gold Visa then crawling off down the hallway with it. Funny that you know exactly which card you need for shopping.
Standing is now second nature. As is walking along the furniture and moving carefully from one steady object to the next. You now find anything to stand behind and push to practice your walking and are using your pram to do this too. The amazing thing is you don't just hold on and push but you put one hand on the back of the pram and push/steer while the other hand turns the wheel, as if you are already aware of how turning the wheel makes the pram move along.