Ollinger Girls Lunch on Friday

Grandma Manning's maiden name is Ollinger and every few months, when it works the "Ollinger women" get together for lunch. Grandma's sister (Olivia's Great-Aunt)Helen and their cousins and so on get together. This past Friday Olivia and I joined them for their luncheon and we met close to Aunt Lynn's work so she was able to get away to meet us this time also.
Before we left for lunch Olivia and I had a talk about being so shy and standoffish when she first gets together with people. I told her Grandma Manning, Aunt Helen and Aunt Lynn would be there and the rest of the ladies were very very nice people. I told her I didn't want her to act scared and shy because by the time she would warm up it would be time to go home. She said, "OK Momma! I pwomise" And sure enough she was all smiles and happy the whole time. She laughed, smiled and showed off for everyone. She even ate her food pretty well. Everyone got a hug goodbye, even the women she didn't know before. She was so good she got to have her sucker for dessert.
Then all the way home I listened to "See Momma, I not be shy!, see Momma, I not be shy!"

Unfortunately she woke up Saturday morning with the sniffles so I hope she didn't spread her cold to anyone!