Curls, Cookie Dough, and various other things...

Sorry it has been sooo long since my last post... life has a way of getting in the way of things like email, blogs, and mommy down-time.. Ha!

Olivia is just barely starting to get some hair... at least we think that's what it is... I mean we really wouldn't know seeing as she has been bald since birth. Anyway, in the bathtub is where it tends to grace us with "its" presence. ha! It gets pretty curly when it's wet....and that's when it looks the most red too.. so cute!


I spent Friday and part of Saturday morning whipping up some "pumpkin chocolate-chip bars" for my MOPS ( Mothers of Pre-Schoolers ) group that I belong to at Malibu Presbyterian Church. All the mom's baked some goodies for the bake sale that we held tonight at the Harvest Festival. (I'll post about that next..) Anyway, Olivia definitely wanted in on that action so I let her lick a beater for the first time. She sat on the floor in the kitchen and just licked her beater like nobody's business...and when she finished the first one she didn't hesitate to ask for the second one.....when she was finished she tugged on my pants until I would crouch down and then she threw her arms around me and gave me a hug and kiss. Mommy was the hero for making those yummy cookie bars.

By-the way.. .the recipe is on Martha Stewarts website and is the easiest and yummiest fall treat to make!!



Tonight Olivia, Chad, and I went to have dinner in Malibu with our friends Jamie, Todd, and little Rachel and then we all went to the Harvest Festival at the church. It was so great. They had food, a blue-grass band, games, and the thing that Olivia loved the most : a petting zoo. Chad thought she might get a little spooked by the animals but she absolutely loved it...she threw her arms around a very nice sheep and gave him a huge hug.. she tried to kiss a couple of pigs.. and then she stared at a llama in the next pen. She also was very fond of trying to put her hands in the animals water bucket... yummy. Anyway, she was so gentle and nice with all the animals...what a relief to know that we are teaching her the right way to be gentle with all creatures. Whew..! It's nice to see the fruits of your labor pay off once in a while. After the petting zoo, she enjoyed eating a chocolate chip cookie and dancing to some blue grass music... unfortunately , my camera ran out of batteries right before she started dancing. Oh well....








That's all for now.... hopefully I won't have to wait as long before my next post!!! xoxoxoxoxo