Liv's Cooking Show

What's better than a store bought water table, you're own home made water table! Olivia has the making of a television cooking host or a host of any television show as she's never short on words. The (pilot) segment below has not been subtitled yet, nor is any closed captioning provided, but hopefully the audience will get the gist of what she's demoing for you today on Olivia's Cooking Show. There was only one live member audience (Mr. Higgins) - an interview with our audience member to follow. Enjoy the show!
** note the little mini-pre-show dance (my sister was calling my mom that elicits a little dance tune..haha)
** see TicketMaestro for upcoming show tickets

Shoo Fly Don't Follow Me

Omigosh, just a quick post, but I discovered that Olivia has an aversion to flies, or bugs that can fly! Today, she was happily having her afternoon snack of milk & apples, watching her Leap Frog DVD. I took the opportunity to clean up in the kitchen, when I hear her jibbering a lot and not eating her apples, nor watching her DVD. She would jibber at her apples and jibber/screech at me. So I walk over to look at her apples and see this big fat fly in walking along her bowl. I shoo it away and take her apples to the kitchen to wash. As I walk away, she starts screaming more and clearly not happy. I thought it was because I took her apples away, but when I gave it back, she was looking around the room, jibbering and starting to cry. By then my Mom came by and I let her in, to which Olivia proceeded to squeal. We took her out of her highchair, but by then she was crying and freaking out, looking around the room and screaming on occasion. Finally, we were able to distract her by getting her to the kitchen sink to play with soapy water. But even then she'd freak out every so often. We relayed this to my Dad when he came over to cook dinner, and he told me that she was scared when they were watching a video that had bumble bees in it. I guess the 2's are kicking in. Hopefully this fear will pass!

Our Little Helper

So, today's the first official weekday with the Nanny (vacation back in Canton) not here. And let me say, easy as pie. But I'm not going to lie, there were a few challenges with my calls popping up and Dave saying he has to work and send out emails and call so-and-so. But overall a very successful day (thanks to our little helper - see video below). I did manager to cook up my breakfast burrito and wWe even got to go to the park after her nap. Liv is growing up so fast. While at the park, she tried socialize and tried to emulate the big kids romping around, going down tall slides to swirly slides to even trying to slide on her back backwards! Of course she wasn't able to do that herself, but was ever so delighted when her 阿姨 and I helped her lie on her back and slide down backwards! She's not the most coordinated, nor agile, kid on the block, but she's got the dare devil in her with a bit of self-preservation! In the evening, we had 公公 come to the rescue with his famous oxtail stew (with no oxtail, only beef, out of consideration of the gwei-lo...hehe) and his mushroom medley dish - which Olivia loves! We do miss our Nanny's help, but I for one am enjoying the quiet annoyance-free-air of this household...well not so quiet...haha.