Breakfast

Olivia calls breakfast "bref-sticks." I worked with her one day. "Say 'brek'" "Brek" "Say 'fast'" "Fast" "Say 'breakfast" "Breakfast." Pausing. "Dad?" "Yes, Liv." "I say bref-sticks."

Early Mad-Libs

Olivia recently borrowed a book from her friend Anna, titled "Disney's Two-Minute Classics." Liv really enjoyed her week of reading and re-reading each little story synopsis. But after a few runthroughs, she had a new idea - she insisted that I read each story while substituting one character's name for another. This turned out to be fairly entertaining. "At the king's palace everylady in the land was dressed beautifully. But Dumbo was the lovliest of them all. The prince never left her side." "Bambi had to dress like a baby and jump out of a fake burning building." And my personal favorite: "'What will you name the young prince?' asked Thumper the Rabbit. 'I will call him Lady and the Tramp,' said the fawn's mother."

One for me, One for you

Liv woke up to pee and then came in bed with us. Then the dog was pacing, so I switched beds to Liv's bed. Just as I was falling asleep the soft steps of bare feet on wood floor woke me up. "daddy, I need help going poo-poo." So I got up, and she went poo-poo, and then I asked if she'd like to snuggle with me in her bed. She said, yes, we crawled in and snuggled. Then she started coughing. Jenny, concerned, came in to turn on the humidifier, but it was unplugged, so she took it back into our room , and Liv crawled out of her bed to go get back in bed in the humidified room. As she was getting ouyt of bed, she asked for her "squishy" kitty -- one of her favorite stuffed animals. I gave it to her, and as she turned to get out of bed she said "Daddy, I'm going to take squishy kitty to snuggle with. You can snuggle with my pony." and she pointed to the stuffed animal next to me. And sure enough she left her rainbow winged pony for me to snuggle with. She's such an extremely sweet kid.

Olivia's House

Olivia drew a house at school and populated it with her family. The teacher annotated the drawings just in case you couldn't figure out who is who.
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