Olive the Brave!

Hello peoples!

When I first told Olive about Ottile and her pets, she was terrified and despite countless lunchtimes of arguing about it, she kept her stance that lizards are "slimy and gross". In fact, the only way I could get her to go to Ottile's house in the first place was by promising her she didn't have to go in the half of the room that Toby's vivarium was in! Anyway, today I managed to get Olive to finally agree to meet Toby.

I could tell she was regretting it when I had to practically push her up the stairs to Otto's room, but there was no going back for her now! As always, Otto was super happy to see us, you can tell she loves taking every opportunity to show people her awesome pets.

I think everything was going too fast for poor Olive though, as straight away, Otto picked up Toby and held him for Olive to see....

...causing her to leap as far as she could away from him!

I could see this wasn't going to work, so Otto set Toby down and I decided we should try to reassure Olive first instead.

Ottile even handed over her fact book about reptiles, as she thought Olive might be more comfortable after reading some facts about them.

And after some convincing...

She did it! She held Toby!

Afterwards she even told me that she was wrong, and that lizards aren't slimy at all!

Bye bye my brave readers!