Oooooolivia

This morning Olivia tried cheerios as finger food for the first time. She held the cheerio between her fingers and looked at it from every possible angle before finally testing it out and she loved it! Another first... I have been cutting bananas into impossibly small peices for about a week and leaving them on Olivia's high chair tray to see if she would accept it as finger food. While she likes banana, it was just too slippery. This morning I had the bright idea, what if I coat the tiny banana pieces in dry baby cereal before offering them to her and success. High five for ingenuity! She was able to pick them up, no problem and get them in her mouth.

In another note, I had an idea last night for a children's story about a little girl who always got hand-me-down shoes, but her mother made up great stories to go along with each pair that make the little girl excited to wear them. It's call Maisie and the Magical Shoes. So far I have 2 ideas for types of shoes and stories to go along with, sandals which belonged to an amazonian princess and winter boots that the child of a famous explorer wore while exploring the North Pole.