"Is she sleeping through the night yet?"...

...This is a question you should never ask of new parents.

Tomorrow Olivia turns 18 months old, and joy-of-joys last night she (and I!) slept through the night for the VERY FIRST TIME!!! YAY!!! It's quite a thing to go to bed and not wake up until it's light outside. Even if that occurs before 6am.

18 months has also been a time of other firsts- Olivia was babysat by Kate and Wim with Lyra, and get this - she had a GOOD TIME.

And she's walking up a storm. She still likes to have a finger to hold "for balance" though it really isn't helping :) but she will take you by the hand and toddle off to look at his or that, and she likes to go walking down the sidewalk near our house. Recently she's been letting go more and more, and deciding to walk by herself; the only step she still doesn't have is getting on her 2 feet without using a wall or a person to pull up on...




And we haven't yet mentioned that Olivia's now sitting in her Tripp Trapp chair without a 'baby' rail- she's very stable on it and can now climb up into it by herself! great climber!