Santa Clause

hmmm....I want a new dolly, a dress-up trunk, a vanity, some DVDs, a Backyardigan ....hmmmm...lemme think Santa...what else?

The Magic of Christmas

Or maybe I should call this "The Magic of the Santa Clause Threat". Yes, I know. She is only two and a half but she fully grasps the concept that this big jolly man in a red suit is going to come some night when she's sleeping and leave her a dolly. That's what she wants from the Big Man, a dolly. So I've learned something about this and it's so great that I had to share. I pick up our telephone about a half-dozen times a day threatening to call Santa. Yes, I know it's awful but it works. Dammit, I wish Christmas could last all year long. Here is a perfect example:

Me: "Olivia did you just dump that bowl of dry cereal on the floor?"
Olivia: "yup"
Me: "Why?"
Olivia: "I don't know"
Me: "Well are you going to pick them up?"
Olivia: "No, mommy, I can't. I have to get my books."
Me: "Olivia, Santa's watching you do you want me to call him?"
Olivia: "No."
Me: "Well then you better pick up that cereal."
Olivia: "OH"

Sometimes she'll argue a bit more about not picking up that cereal and then I pretend to dial Santa on the phone and she flips out yelling "Don't Call Santa! Don't Call Santa!" After that she usually does what I ask. I'm telling you girls...I wish this could last all year long....better yet, I wish this would work on Jack but I'm pretty sure he gets what Santa is really about. He pretty much told me that he knows we're Santa but will not dare say that again for fear that maybe he's right and once we know that he knows the 'jig will be up' as some say and the presents stop!!

"JOY TO THE WORLD......."

What a booger!

WARNING: This post is kind of disgusting and I can't believe I'm even sharing this.

Want to know Livi's new trick? It's picking her nose. I know it's so disgusting. Since she was this little teenie tiny baby she's always had a nose chocked full of boogers. But what gets me is that she waits until we're in public to drive her finger up there. Usually when she's sitting in the grocery cart. I should know by now to always always take kleenex when I take her to get groceries because 9 times out of 10 she looks at me (and I swear I don't even see her doing it in the grocery store...I SWEAR! or else I'd make her stop) and says...."EWWWWW MOMMY A BOOGER - HERE! TAKE IT!!" - to which I have to take it off her finger with whatever the hell I can find in my purse....once it was ...nevermind...you don't want to know. If you're totally grossed out now it's your own fault...I warned you!

Hrmmmph!

69 hits on Livi's little website in the past week and 1 comment? Who's out there reading this? Don't be shy.

Tiny Dancer

....hold me closer Tiny Dancer.....Olivia loves to dance. She loves her Disney Princess Sing-A-Long DVD with the dance-along bonus features. She wants to be one of those girls I swear! Don't you love her leg-warmers? Thanks for the idea Nita!!!

Airplane!!!

I don't know what it is about this picture. I just love her wild hair in it. We were playing airplane on the bed and I took this picture. Don't you just love it too?

Livi's 'Illin

Is that a word? Anyways, tonight started off good. It was just me and Liv home tonight. I cooked supper. Nothing gourmet by any means but I had a hankering for fried bologna. So there you have it. Fried bologna, potatoes and caesar salad. WHAT? It was good! So I proceed to feed her supper to her while she's taking a bath like I do most nights because she can't run from me in the bathtub. She pretty near cleans it up. She gets out of the bath and she's pretty clingy. Lying on me on the sofa. She tells me her belly and her back hurts and I didn't clue in that her tummy was upset. Did I mention that she drinks the bathwater? Yeah, she drinks the bathwater. Tonight we were blowing bubbles. You know, the kind with the wand that's probably dishsoap. She dumps it into the tub. It was just small. I think from a wedding. Yah, definitely from a wedding. There was a bride and groom on top. Anyhooooo - she's drinking out of it. I know - ick!! It didn't even click with me. So, back to the sofa. She sits straight up and I can tell she's going to throw up so I pick her up and she vomits....on me. In my face. On my clothes. On herself. EWWW!! EWWW! I feel so bad for my poor little angel. I clean myself and her up and she's lying on the sofa again. I give her tylenol because she seems to have a bit of a fever. Five minutes later she projectile vomits on the sofa. Blech! This time I have to cut her shirt off of her because there is no way in hell I'm going to lift that over her head. I get her settled down again and call my sister and ask her if she thinks it is okay to give her tyleonol again. She suggests gravol and I immediately say we don't have any. I get the okay and give her tyleonol again and ask her if she wants to snuggle mommy in mommy's bed. That gets her every time.

Sooo......we go into my bed and I'm rubbing her back and she sits straight up and does it again. I take her into the living room where I proceed to yet again, cut another shirt off her because she's covered in it and well, it's gross. I prop her back up on the sofa and wipe her down with a facecloth and she seems to be feeling a little better when I decide to actually check to see if we do have gravol and yes, we do. I forgot we bought some for Jack when we went to the Dominican Republic. I get that into her and she drifts off....into sleep. She is now in her bed, sound asleep. I hope feeling better. I think I'll sleep in Jack's bed tonight so I can keep an eye on her. Fingers crossed tomorrow will involve no vomit.

Happy Halloween!!

Yea, I know - Halloween was yesterday but I couldn't get the pic until last night! Here' s Livi & Brooklynn. Liv was sooo excited to see her.



I wasn't sure Livi would get the 'gist' of Halloween. But she went to every door and said "Trick or Treat, smell my feet......mmmmghhh mmmh mmmmmm good to eat!!!" There were a few witches answering doors that frightened her and a BIG man dressed as a gorilla that she would NOT go near. Other than that we slept peacefully last night and there were no nightmares!! Yippeee!!

My Girl is Smooth

With a capital S. I just put her down for her nap. Albeit a bit early but she was up at SEVEN this morning and we have someplace to be this afternoon. Her Auntie Lindsey has a special Halloween treat for her and Jack and I told her she had to nap early. So, I put her down and not ten minutes later I hear her bedroom door creep open. She comes into the living room, stops to face me, opens her mouth in a big fake yawn (covering it with her hand and full sound effects too) and a BIG stretch and says "I wake up Mommy".

Ummm yeah; you got to get up earlier than that to fool me!!! LMAO

Good Morning

This is Olivia's morning look.



The picture makes her look pretty good. Her hair is usually a complete bed-headed mess and she's sometimes cranky. This was a good morning. I thought I'd capture it!

Corn Maze

A few weekends ago Bud & I along with Cindy & Kash decided to take the kids to Truro to check out the corn mazes. It was a beautiful day. We were going to have so much fun. On the way up we were going to stop for lunch at a nice place......until the kids saw the BIG FREAKING play area through the window of Burger King. We had Jack, Mikal and and Livi in the car with us and Jack & Mikal started screaming that they wanted to go there. So we gave in and went there. Needless to say it was gross. But off to the corn maze. Throughout the maze if you get a certain number of stamps on your paper you get a free ice-cream. About half an hour through the maze we said, lets get out of here and we'll pay for the darned ice-cream!! So we proceeded to try to find our way out when Jack & Mikal ran ahead. Yup, we lost them. Great parents that we are...we lost the kids. I didn't panic right away. Cindy & I hung out at the entrance with Livi & Max while Bud & Kash went back in to find them. I couldn't just stand there any longer so we took the kids to the petting zoo on the grounds. Half an hour later the guys come out.... with no kids!! I'm kind of freaking at this point and we told them to stay with the little ones and we'd go in. Cindy went in without me and I talked to the staff and described the boys to them. Another half-hour later they come out with another family. I asked them if they were scared and they said..."nah, not really - but we got SIX stamps!" little friggers - I wanted to knock their heads together!!!

Here's Livi and Max hanging out while we're waiting for the lost boys:



Very much enjoying this hot-dog:





Livi the cow:

Another New Look

....don'tcha love it? I do!

Potty Training 101

So we're in the middle of potty-training fun. It's going pretty good at home but she's terrified of the toilet. She will only sit on the potty and she won't poop in it either. Did I say it's going pretty good? Anyways, we went out yesterday and I forgot to bring pull-ups and she pooped in the one she had on. So I took it off and said, "Oh well...you're just going to have to use the big-girl potty today". Fast forward to about an hour and a half later and we're in Home Depot and she tells me she has to go potty. I thought, WOW - this is going good. We ran through the store to the bathroom and all she sees are big toilets and she completely FA-LIPS out. No way will she go on it. I thought 'well crap! what am I going to do?' - I pull up her pants and go out to the store and told her if she has to pee we'll have to go back to the bathroom and she said "I no wanna pee Mommy". Fine, whatever right? We're in the aisle looking at pot-lights for our kitchen and she's yells, I POPPED! I POOPED! I look down and she's peeing right on the floor. Proud as a freaking peacock at the puddle on the floorl. I was mortified and Bud & I kinda looked at each other and laughed. I went to a guy working and said, we're potty training and my daughter had a little accident on the floor. He just pointed to another guy and said "Tell him". We couldn't get anybody to help us with our lights so we then took Livi and walked out the store. Poor thing peed all over herself. Note to self: Don't leave the house without a pull-up EVER again.

Dear Webkinz,

....Yes, I know this has nothing to do with Olivia but bear with me.

Jack has a Webkinz. I truly think I play with the darned thing more than he does. When he goes to bed or isn't home I'll play with it to try to win him some Webkinz moolah!! Yesterday I won 1254W on the Wishing Well. Their darned server had issues so it booted me out before his account got credited. Today I did a job for him that pays 175W and the same thing happened and then I played some silly game and had racked up 172W and it happened, yup, you guessed it, yet again. It ticked me off. I know, get a life right?

The Discovery Center

This summer we went to the Discovery Center. Livi enjoyed it alot. We met up with a lady that I met on my 'expecting board'. She lives in Washington and was visiting Nova Scotia. We decided to meet up here. I must take her back. She had a great time. She especially loved the "Bubbles Room" - She got soaked!! Look at how wet her shirt is!!

Yeah Yeah - I know I know

Bad Mommy Blogger I know. Let's see now. What has Livi been up to this summer? Not a whole lot sadly. We did manage a two-night getaway to Digy Pines so Daddy could golf. That was fun. The kids loved the pool. Livi and Jack would have stayed in it until they shriveled up.




We managed to get to Upper Clements park. That was fun. Olivia didn't know what to do with herself there. She loved driving the big truck, the race cars in the arcade and the train too. It was real nice when they BOTH napped in the afternoon. And those that know Jack know that he is too darned nosy to take a nap!!! haha

I Ask You

Does she look like a two-year old? No. I don't think so. She looks so grown up. Yesterday Olivia went to a birthday party and wore some build-a-bear clothes. I look at this picture and I have a glimpse of what she's going to look like in say, eight years. Kind of freaky!

My Bud

This is my cousin Brookie. Sometimes we fight. I love her though and I know we'll be BFF. This morning she came over and we had breakfast together and watched a Dora movie. We snuggled. It was fun.

It's beginning to look a lot like summer....

Finally. I think the rain has stopped and we can spend our days hanging outside, going to the playground, running around in the sprinkler, going swimming, etc., etc. On Sunday it was beautiful out. Uncle Rick filled the pool and the kids were swimming. Not you though Livi, it was still a bit chilly for swimming. However, the Dora sprinkler was a BIG hit!!! You are too cute in your little bikini. I LOVE it!!!

Oh Gosh

....I better not find you dancing on a pole in sixteen years!!! Check it out: