Ah-too!

Well the household is crazy as usual these days. Among the normal day to day activities and chaos we recently had a HUGE mess to deal with with our bank due to some apparant fraudulent activitiy on one of our accounts. We *hope* the issue is resolved now and can move forward without more hours spent on the phone on hold trying to work out the issues.

In other news, Olivia is standing more confidently and will hold onto things and let go for a few seconds before holding on again. She is also using her walker more confidently and taking steps by holding our fingers and improving each day. We think she will be walking within a month or so. She's also adapted her excellent rolling to incorporate what looks like a military crawl. She pushes her butt into the air and scoots with her arms and then rolls a couple of times and repeats. She definitely gets where she wants to go which is normally right into something she shouldn't be in!

About a week and a half ago I sneezed and she looked up at me and said "Ha-juu?" Since then, she's fine tuned the word a little and now says "Ah-too" with every sneeze - hers or anyone else's. The cute thing is that she seems to think "Ah-too" is what you say to EVERY bodily noise (burping, coughing, etc.) Today we were reading books before her morning nap and she had her pacifier in her mouth and she let out a huge burp. She paused for a second and then took the paci out of her mouth looked right at me and said "Ah-too" and then put the paci back in. It seems to function as "excuse-me" and "bless you" all at the same time :)

We had her 1 year photos taken this week and hope to post some of them soon.