What We Have Been Up To

Well we sold our house and have to be out by October 27th, so the last several days have been filled with packing boxes and trips to our new storage unit. Hopefully we will be able to start construction on the new house sometime in November/ December. Olivia is what I would consider officially potty trained, Jake is VERY close to crawling and is sporting two new bottom teeth! Olivia is getting slightly possessive of her things with Jakes new ability to get around.

Some funny things to note:

When picking Olivia up at school the other day she put her hand on a classmates chest and very sternly said, "No, No Kendall, that's my mama." (Apparently she is possessive of her mama, too.) She also had a potty accident the other day and I heard Greg say, "Uh oh, did we have an accident?" I hear Olivia quickly respond with "Nope, it wasn't me!"

Lastly, Olivia yelling, "I want my basketball hoot!" (after Greg took some of the larger toys to storage for the time being.)

Cinderella aka Little Orphan Annie
Brothers first shiner...compliments of Big Sis (she was "helping" him drink his water until things went sour)
Happy Boy!Brothers two teeth!Slowly, learning to share

Hanging out in her fort

Our moving box fort!

Deep In Thought

Helping to do the grocery shopping

Birthday Dinner

A few more pictures from Olivia's Birthday....we went to dinner at Cozymel's hoping they would sing to her, but instead we got free desert. Not what we were going for but whatever.

At Cozymels with Daddy

Brother enjoying his squash medley (yuck!)

Lastly, Olivia had her 3 year check up and she is still growing like a weed. She is 34 lbs (50th percentile) and 41 3/4" (95th percentile). I fogot to post Jakes stats, but I know he was 75th percentile for weight and 95th for height. You think he is following in sisters footsteps?

She is 3!

Can't believe my sweet girl is 3 years old! Time has flown by but we were so excited to celebrate her big day. We decided this year, instead of having a party, we were going to spend some time at Great Wolf Lodge for her big day. We also decided that, since we were packing up for a road trip, and for us, packing up is half the battle, we were going to also visit Greg's Grandma Stella in Longview. We spent Sunday afternoon visiting with Grandma Stella. We spent the night in an appartment suite you can rent right at her retirement community. Let me just say how I was hoping that the people living beside and below us were hard of hearing. After breakfast, we headed right to Grapevine. The Great Wolf Lodge was the ultimate place to take the kiddos! What was wonderful was that everything was right there. Kid friendly restaurants, check. Entertainment, check. Starbucks? Also check. It was heavenly.

Birthday Breakfast Opening some gifts
Story time in the lobby-in our jammies!

Overheard

A few funny things that have been overheard around here:
Olivia: "I need my microphones!" (headphones)
Greg: "Hmm, I wonder what you could do to get some help to reach your headphones?"
Olivia: "I could say the magic words?"
Greg: "Yes, and what are the magic words?"
Olivia: "Abra Cadabra!"

Olivia: (wearing her flower girl dress from Lindsay and Blairs wedding)-"I'm Lindsay and your Blair." (points to Greg)
Greg: "I'm not Blair, I'm Daddy."
Olivia: "No, you're Blair. Come on Blair, let's go play in my playroom."

Olivia: "Jake! Jake! Are you awake Jake?" (yelling at brother in the middle of his nap.)

Olivia missed school the week before last because of her sinus/ allergies. She practically lost her voice, and I knew we had a big week ahead (post to follow) so I was extra careful to make sure she was 100% and well rested.

Love These Two!

A few pictures of Olivia and Jake, finally able to play together (well, kind of). Jake loves to sit in his chair and play with Olivia. He just giggles at everything that she does...it is so sweet!

Fun At School

Here are a few fun pictures from Olivia's first week of school. She has had an easy time separating from me so far, but we still aren't napping at school. We tried to build up the nap time at school, but it doesn't look like she is going to have it. She continues to be extremely headstrong, so we are trying to work on that. She has, however, come around a little bit with the potty training. She certainly knows what to do and how to do it, she just refused to try! We reached a major step yesterday when she actually said "I need to go potty." (and went!) This was music to my ears after Saturday's outing, while we were looking at an appliance showroom and I look down to find my little lady in a full squat, peeing all over the floor right in front of the general manager(apparently our pull up was faulty). I pretty much wanted to crawl into one of the display refrigerators and die right there. Alas, I sucked it up, asked for some paper towels, and thanked my lucky stars they were smart enough to install concrete floors.

We spent most of the labor day weekend relaxing and taking it easy. We were all feeling a little stuffy with all of this weather changing-fire blazing action we've got going on around here. Also, Olivia had to get her SECOND set of stiches last week, so we couldn't even swim! She was a pro getting her stiches, she didn't cry at all. I stayed home with Jake, but Greg said she was chatting up the nurses and doctors, and they actually had to ask her to quit talking so that they could finish up her stiches. 7 total...5 on the outside and 2 on the inside. It was the craziest thing, she was sitting in her chair at the dinner table across from me, and all I saw was her chair start to fall back and down she went. I couldn't see what she hit her chin on, but we are thinking somehow she hit the tile? (that is what she tells us anyway. She also will say that she is 5 years old so there really is no telling.)