Sunday, January 31, 2010

Olivia at 3 1/2

Olivia Addison is a girl. Not just a girl...but a very girly little girl. Much to my dismay, she is in LOVE with everything princess. I had my "princess phase" in junior high and ever since then can't stand anything with the word princess on it. I guess it's good she is getting it out of her system now. I am becoming a little bit softer though because she loves it so much. Even have bought her a couple of things I swore I never would when she was born. She loves Snow White the best of all the princesses.
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She has some "outfits" that she got for Christmas and wears at least two of them through out the day.
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My favorite part of the whole thing is what she calls Kevin depending on what costume she is wearing. When she is Little Mermaid, she calls Kevin "Eric". And when she is Cinderella or Snow White he is just "Prince" She always asks him to dance and he always does...complete with a spin and dip at the end. She closes her eyes and loves every minute of it. It's really the sweetest thing to watch.
Here is Liv and her "Prince"
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She also LOVES to give gifts. The Christmas Season just couldn't last long enough for her. She still asks me to watch all the Christmas movies and she wants to give everyone gifts all the time. She will be in her room for like 20 minutes and then comes and gets me to tell me I have a gift. She will look in each of her four buckets and find which one she made for me, gives it to me, waits for my reaction, and says "Your welcome" whether or not I said thank you.
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Then she asks where Dad and Toby are and gives them their gifts. I gave her a bunch of play necklaces and she "wraps" gifts with those too.
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But for those she likes to surprise people. She will leave them outside Toby's door when he is sleeping, or outside the bathroom door if I am in the bathroom or Kevin is in the shower.
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She is just so thoughtful and I love to watch the new ways she comes up with to show her love for her family. LOVE THIS GIRLY GIRL!!

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Chirstmas (So I'm a month late...who cares)

So the holidays kicked my butt this year. Between a million places to be and tons of orders for Ankle Biters, I was stretched a little thin. One of my New Years resolutions this year is to blog more. So I am back tracking a little to Christmas...a blog must!

The Christmas season was so much fun this year. The kids are big enough now to really enjoy the whole thing and noticed every Christmas themed thing everywhere. Olivia and Toby learned "Jingle Bells" this year and it was a must before bed every night. The also were obsessed...I mean OBSESSED with the "Nutcracker theme song" Both were sung at the top of my children's lungs the whole month of December. Another new thing this year was Christmas movies. I tivo-ed a whole bunch and we must of watched at least two every day. Their favorites were Prep and Landing, The Polar Express, and Nightmare before Christmas. We enjoyed going on walks and looking for Christmas lights. The kids "ooooohhhhs and ahhhhhhhhhhs made it very fresh and new. We made cookies for Santa this year on Christmas Eve and the kids made sure to leave the cookies out with chocolate milk (because who really likes plain milk with their cookies right?)And also made sure to leave a carrot stick out for each of Santa's reindeer.
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Christmas morning was crazy, actually opening presents was crazy all together. The kids would just rip the wrapping paper off of the gift, pause for a millisecond to see what it was and ask for another present to open. If the present was in a box, forget it, they would throw it aside and ask for another one. Made me a little annoyed but I have to remember they are 2 and 3 and I can't expect much more.
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My FAVORITE moment by far though would have to be openeing Olivia's present to me. We were at Target a few days before Christmas with my sister Lacey and she had taken Liv to go and get something. She told my sister that she wanted to get me something. When my sister asked her what she wanted to give me she told her scissors. My sister thought it was pretty random but went over to the scissor aisle and she picked out yellow ones "Because Mommy wikes wewwow" So they came home and wrapped them up. So I open them up on Christmas and just start balling crying. So here's why: About a week before that my craft scissors had broke. She was in the room when it happened and told me "It's ok mom, maybe Santa will bring you new scissors for Christmas" I didnt think anything of it but she remembered and wanted to get them for me. HOW FREAKIN SWEET RIGHT? So thoughtful for a 3 year old. I love her thoughtful heart.
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