oh what funny things 2 year olds say!

I just had to stop what I was doing and tell you about 2 things that Olivia had done/said in the past 2 days that has cracked me and Ben up.

The first is~Last nite Ben was sitting on his couch playing a video game and I was sitting on my couch watching him and playing with my new phone while Olivia was over in the dining room playing with her kitchen. She only had her diaper on because I had already taken her clothes from the day off and just hadn't put her pj's on yet. All of a sudden she walks over to us and has NO diaper on, NO clothes on, NOTHING!!! she is NAKED!! She just stands in front of us and smiles. Before I even say anything to her I look over and Ben and we both look at each other like what in the world?!?! I then ask Olivia why in the world she took her diaper off? She looks at me and very simply states, "I wanna take a bath mommy" Well then, okay. It was so cute all I could do was laugh as I got up and started the bath water. I did talk to her about how we don't just take our diaper off and walk around. My biggest concern was her peeing all over the floor...another reason I need to work on potty training!!! UGH!!! I keep reminding myself that I was potty trained by the time I was 18 months...we are a tad behind!

Tonite Olivia was sitting on my stomach and she pointed at my shirt and said, "what's that mommy?" I assumed she was asking about what was ON my shirt so I said that's Jesus~because I am wearing a Christian tee about Jesus...She preceded to say, "Noooo, it's a shirt" Duh Mom!!

She is so funny these days. She is talking so good and in full sentences. She says sooo many words. Among those words are: Amazing, beautiful, and many more. She continues to amaze me daily. She can say her ABC's all by herself and can count to 10 all by herself. She sings sooo many songs. Her latest that she has started singing out of the blue this week is One Two Buckle My Shoe. I took her to the doctor today because she has a pretty bad cough and for the first time since she was itty bitty she didn't cry at all when they were examining her!! I was sooo proud of her. It may have been because Pop came with us or because we saw a different doctor that was a woman, but she was such a big girl!!! She is just growing up so fast!
Tomorrow we are supposed to have a playdate at Burger King with our Benton Playgroup to celebrate all of our January birthdays and Olivia is one of them so I am hoping that we both feel up to going. Olivia's is just a cold and my sinus' are acting up again so I haven't been feeling great either. Olivia needs to see her friends though and MOmmy needs to see some adult friends so we are going to try really hard.
I am going to leave you with a couple recent pics. Enjoy!!

Hello there strangers!!

Wow has it been a looong time since I have blogged!!! It's not that I haven't been on my blog website~I just haven't taken the time to write. SOrry :(

I will try to do better.

Olivia is now 2 years old. She turned 2 on January 15. Wow! I can't believe I have a 2 year old. Me?!?!

We are still active in our playgroups and I am still staying home with Olivia. We try to stay busy during the week and stay out of the house because if we don't I tend to be lazy around the house. I am sure Ben wishes I was more of a cleaning wife~but OH WELL!!! Never have been. I do try to "keep up"

That's all for now~ Please be praying for a blogging friend of mine~Scott and Kelly Stamps~She had her first baby girl, Harper, on Friday and she is in VERY critical condition in the NICU in Tulsa. She could really use all the prayers she could get. She has pneumonia and some heart problems. She was a big baby~over 9lbs and is gorgeous. We know that God is faithful and can heal this baby girl. Check out Kelly's blog at www.kellyskornerblog.com

Halloween Pictures

Halloween wweekend 2008

Well since I haven't done so good at keeping up with this lately I am just going to pick up where we are right now...Halloween weekend.

Last night was Halloween and although it was actually Olivia's 2nd one~it was her very first time to get dressed up and go out trick or treating. I ordered her costume from ebay and was expecting it this week and was hoping that it would come in on Wednesday. Reason being~we had a costume party with our playgroup on Thursday morning. Well of course her costume did not come in. Well let me take that back. It came in on Thursday which normally would have been fine since our mail runs early in the morning...BUT OF COURSE on the day I NEED it our mail runs late in the afternoon. OH WELL...Olivia was extremely cranky that day and so that made mommy even more cranky so we skipped the playgroup party.
Let me just say Olivia looked ADORABLE as Cookie Monster. Ben got home from work a little before 5 and we started getting ready. I painted her fingernails bright blue and tried to spray some bright blue color in her hair. She was having NO part of it so being the brilliant mommy I am I sprayed my hair blue to show her it was so cool and so beautiful to have blue hair!! She didn't buy it!! So mommy had her t-shirt and jeans on with bright blue hair and Olivia looked adorable without the bright blue hair!! We left the apartment around 5:45. We headed for Geyer Springs Baptist that is on I-30 because they where having a Funfest that was being advertised as "large" scale. Well we pulled into the parking lot and it was more like the FAIR!!! I swear it was HUGE!!! It would have been great I am sure but with Olivia being as young as she is we decided to not do it this year...maybe next year. We knew she wouldn't ride any of the rides and would want to be carried so we opted out. PLUS she didn't get a nap all day so we didn't want to push our luck. So we headed towards Benton to go to Ben's mom and step-dad's neighborhood. They usually have tons of kids out and so we knew that it would be a good place Olivia fell asleep on our way out there before the activities even started!! We parked our car at their house and walked around with Uncle James, Aunt Lauren, and Tyler. Olivia had so much fun!! She loves Tyler anyway so she really took to walking up to the doors with him and saying, "trick or treat" She would rather have them hand her the candy so she could put it in her bag herself but other than that she got the hang of it pretty quick. She would yell, "Thanks!" as she was running down each driveway and on to the next house. It only sprinkled a little bit on us and not enough to deter Olivia. We went from house to house for about an hour or so and then had to head back to Little Rock. By this point, it was getting dark and the older kids were starting to come out. And mommy and daddy were worn out!!!
After trick or treating we took daddy home and Olivia and I headed over to Mammaw and Grandad's. They had to see Cookie Monster before she turned back into Olivia. They of course thought she was adorable!! We played over there and watched Barney for a little while before going home to take a bath and get to bed. I think Olivia had a blast on her first "active" Halloween!!
Today was November 1st!! Can you believe it?!?! Every 1st Saturday of the month our church helps put on a picnic with the Help Stop the Violence organization. Ben usually goes and helps but this time Olivia and I went too. It was at Promiseland Church off of Geyer Springs and we had hot dogs, cotten candy, snow cones, a big jumping thing, and a talent show. Olivia loves running around with all her little friends from church. I made cotten candy for the first time and let me tell you~~That's hard work!!! I got it EVERYWHERE!!! I had cotten candy in my hair, on my clothes, on my arms, anywhere and everywhere!! My hands where cramping from twisting the sticks around the machine. It was so much fun serving everyone and reaching out to the community. I think Olivia and I might start going more often!
Tomorrow we are gonna take it easy. Sunday is our good nap day and I fully intend on taking advantage of it!! We have had a busy weekend, but it has been so much fun. I am so thankful that I am able to share all these moments with Olivia. Instead of trying to add all the pictures to the blog I am going to just do a picture blog with all of her Halloween pics in it!!

catching up and keeping up

Wow~~ So it has really been a while since I have posted anything! It's not that I haven't been online~I just haven't taken the time to write. I have good intentions but then get preoccupied!
SO I will just write about a couple of the "big" events that has happened lately.
On October 4 my grandfather who I call Papa~I cried through the whole wedding. It was such a bittersweet moment. I am so happy that he has found someone to spend his life with. At the same time it was hard to see him with someone other than my grandma. My grandma died April 10, 2007. It was very sudden and very hard for our family. So I am very happy for my grandfather. Wilma, his new bride, seems to be very nice and kind. She does remind me alot of my grandma but that is ok. I hope they are happy together. I am keeping an open mind...or trying to. So we went to the wedding and the reception afterwards~then we went back to their house for a barbeque. There was probably 50 people in and out and it was very nice to see all of my family.

October 11~my mom, me, and Olivia walked in Race for the Cure. It was my 3rd time to walk and Olivia's very first time! She loved being outside and watching all the people. It is always such a rush to see the thousands of women that come out to support the race. It still amazes me that you wait 30 minutes once the race starts to even start walking because it takes that long for all the people in front of you to get far enough ahead for you to move. I am so glad that we went.Olivia was worn out by the time we were done. But she had so much fun getting beads and all the other goodies they were handing out~!


Olivia and I spent the night with my mom that way we could just get up and go. Friday night we went to the Texarkana/Benton football game and saw my cousin Shelbi cheer. She is a junior for Arkansas High and a great great cheerleader. My aunt and Uncle were there and it was great to see them. It is my mom's brother and they live in Texarkana and we don't see them near as often as we should!!

Olivia is getting so big! She is 21 months and acting like she is 21!! She is repeating everything!! We are really having to watch what we say around her. She is so much fun!

Air conditioning, finger cuts, and Spiderman

Wow! I am not doing very well at keeping up these days. No reason really, just haven't made this a priority! Sorry! :(
Let's see...where to start?
I will start with with this past week. On Monday night I had tambourine practice. It sounds funny to call it that right now since we don't do anything with the tambourine during practice. We are still working on getting our room at the new building finished. We didn't have a closet at all so one had to be built and we still aren't finished painting the new walls. So all of our clothes and stuff are still in the middle of the room just like the first day after we moved in. There is just so much to do and trying to get it all done in between stuff we are working on and everyone's busy schedules is very hard. We are working on a choreography for a new dance. We have been asked to dance in a wedding at the end of October. It should be very nice.
On Wednesday I woke up to our air conditioner being out. This wouldn't be that big of a deal expect that it was just out the week before. So Ben called the office and they said they would call on it first thing. I tried to wait around to see if they would come but by 1pm Olivia and I were burning up so we gave up. We ran to Walmart and then went to my parents house for the afternoon. Ben got home at 5pm and it was still hot in there so he called again and supposedly the AC people had been there but left. Guess it was more serious than what they thought. So Olivia and I spent the night at Mammaw and Pappaw's on the floor and Ben went to his Dad's house and spent the night there. It was fun having a sleep over at Mammaw and Grandad's for Olivia. When I got our palett laid out she thought it was the neatest thing and was running in circles all over it! As I was getting things out of our bag I suddenly felt something not so nice on my finger~I pulled it out and apparantly the cap had come off of my shaving razor and shaved a nice little chunk off the tip of my middle finger. It bled for a long time and I ended up having to put it on ice to get the bleeding to stop. After it did I put some neosporin plus pain on it and wrapped in in gauze and taped it up. It hurt!
Thursday Olivia and I got up and went to storytime at Terry Library with Nicole, Isaac, Carder, Adrianne, and Brett. IT was really different than our Bryant storytime as it was geared to older kids but Olivia still seemed to enjoy it and so did the other kiddos. Craft time is her favorite besides singing which they didn't do too much of there. After storytime we all went to Burger King for lunch and let the kiddos play on the playground outside. We stayed until Olivia was too fussy for mommy to handle. Adrianne had to go to Tate's school so I took Brett with me and we went back to his house and played Wii. If you haven't ever played the Wii~you need to!! It is such fun!! And semi-active for a video game!!
All day Ben had been calling the office at the apartments trying to find out the status of our AC. Finally at 4 I got the call that our apartment was all cool! YEA!! So we ran by my parents house and got all of our stuff and we back home. It was so nice to be back in a cool place!! You don't realize how much you take it for granted until it's gone!
Friday I HAD to stay home and get our house clean because I am having a Premier Jewelry party on Sunday. I got my bathroom all clean, but not much else. I had a headache most of the day so that kept me from getting as much done as I would have wanted to. We stayed at home and relaxed on Friday as a family. I cooked dinner and Ben did dishes...that's always nice.
Today...Saturday...I stayed home all day too and worked on the house. Finally at 9pm it was all clean...carpets shampooed and floors mopped! Although, I hate housework, I love it when it is all clean and you have that sense of accomplishment! I am looking forward to the jewerly party tomorrow after church. Hopefully I will have a decent turnout!
I haven't taken as much pictures lately because my camera is dead and the charger is in the back of a friends car and I have a different phone that doesn't take very good pictures. Hopefully I will get some soon!
Oh and Olivia is very into Spidyman right now. We spent some time with the Stone boys last weekend aned thye have everything Spidyman so Olivia caught on!

It is funny seeing her in her pj's. She is too cute~!

She is repeated EVERYTHING now!! And even saying some stuff we have no idea where it came from!! The other day she told her daddy to shub bup!!! He got onto her while I hid my laughing. Although not nice it was kinda funny! She is now expressing herself very well when she disagrees with you too. She says, "hmmph" and crossing her arms in front of her and frowns. it was cute at first but not so much now.
Olivia can count to 10 pretty much on her own!! She stumbles a little around 5 and 6 but then picks right back up with 7, 8, 9, 10. It is amazing!! She really is smart!
Oh and my finger is doing ok...really not that bad after keeping it covered for a couple days! Dora bandaids rock!!

Wow...been awhile!

So I was looking and saw that it was like the 7th of September the last time I posted anything!!
This month has flown by and we have been super busy. I have been babysitting alot for friends and doing alot of stuff during the days with Olivia.
Olivia is now 20 months old! Only 4 more months til she turns 2! I am already looking at different ideas for her birthday party. I really want to do the Wonder Place but it's like 300 bucks for what I want!! Not too sure my husband would go for that!!
Nothing much to report as far as new things. Olivia is talking soo good and so much. She is putting her words together soo well. The cutest thing is when you say Thank you Olivia she replies with I welcome instead of your welcome...smart girl if you think about it.
We went to target today and she rode in the big part of the basket and was standing up facing out and every time we turned a corner and there was someone there she would say sorry. Like we were running into them or something. It was so funny. It was cracking up the people in the store. She talks to everyone these days. Unless I want her to of course. Whenever we are leaving a store and finish checking out she always tells the cashiers bye.
I have a tiny bit of a headache tonite so I am not going to write more. I will try to do better at posting. We have some exciting things coming up in the next few weeks that I will want to share...for example, my grandfather is getting married in a couple weeks!!