Butterflies in the garden...

Today was a great Michigan weather day. Peter and I have wanted to go and watch the butterflies at the Meijer Garden for a while now and since my sister Tina is leaving in 2 days for Albania we thought to take her there for a last excursion. It was awesome. Olivia had a bless going around the garden and looking at all the pretty things, including riding the miniature “Italian Stallion horse”…hilarious…

It is such a blessing to be able to take Livi out & about and do the things that all parents want to do with their children:)))). She is doing great, continues to drink from the bottle and growing smarter and smarter everyday… Her Cardiologist Dr. Lee is very happy with her heart and didn’t change her medicine for now; he actually is giving us a six months break before the next appointment.(great news).
The Nephrology office continues to watch her closely (every 2-3 weeks which is very helpful) and so far no transplant schedule …thank GOD… and thanks for all your continues prayers.

A cute thief.

It is amazing how smart kids are… every day Olivia shows me how I shouldn’t underestimate her “smartness”.
-Every time she does anything that she knows she shouldn’t and she gets caught she:
* looks at me all cute and blows me kisses as of nothing should go wrong ‘cuz kisses cover any bad action…
*she gets her point finger up and waives it towards me calling ME a “bad biiirl(girl)” before I even say anything to her ( she knows it)
*or she’ll turn to Paco and yell at him “paem-paem Aco” (spank-spank Paco in Albanian) like he did it and not her …amazing…
- It takes us just one time showing Olivia things and she’ll do it.
*I was teaching her how to feed her baby doll with the fake-baby bottle. After that 1-st time she grabbed the bottle right of my hand and started doing it like she had done it before…so I encouraged her by clapping, than I turned around to find a different toy for her …before I even turned fully I see her taking the bottle out of the baby’s mouth and put it in her own while she was looking at me with the corner of her eyes so she didn’t get caught…lol …now that’s a CUTE THIEF :0) .

The imitator.

Yesterday as i was changing Olivia's diaper, she kept pulling her G-tube (belly feeding tube) like she always does as a way to get more attention on her. At times it gets frustrating 'cuz I'm scared that she'll pull it out so i stopped, looked at her and put my hands on my head:
(I)- Oh, my Gosh Olivia why do you want to do that to yourself???
(O)- Got up using her abdominal muscles, put both of her little hands in each side of my head and start mumbling...oooo mighaaa....ooomighaa

It was the cutest thing ever so I started kissing her all over, laughing as hard as I could….funny.