Showing posts with label Olivia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olivia. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Happy 7th Birthday Olivia


Outstanding
Loving
Imaginative
Vivacious
Intelligent
Athletic


I can't believe that yet another year has gone by already and now our Miss Olivia is 7 years old. Our little sweetie pie, Olivia, was born 7 years ago on May 13, 2002 as our smallest baby weighing 8lbs, 7oz., and has been a total joy to have in our lives ever since. She is a very sweet, loving, cuddly, passionate, caring, kind-hearted and energetic child that always has a smile on her face (with the exception of being woke up as stated in the bathroom post)!

She truly is a princess..
Happy 7th Birthday Liva Duece!!!
WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH OLIVIA!! We are so very proud of you and so thankful to be able to call you ours!!!

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Self TP'ing

Update: So just a short time ago (12:05 am to be exact) the princess struck again. I was in the dining room covering 24 of the 72 cupcakes I made today (another story for another time), and I hear banging upstairs. I hear Don from the living room say "what the hell is that" and I reply with "oh no, she's at it again"! I run upstairs to find her in the bathroom that is under construction (hope the toilet's working) sitting on the pot. I hear that she finished and instruct her to "wait!!" while I get toilet paper. I get back, help her clean up, and out she walks to her room. But as she's leaving the bathroom I notice wet footprints...oh good Lord no she didn't, I thought. I demand her to stop and wait (thank GOD there is still plastic outside of the bathroom because of the demo) while I get something to clean her and send her back to bed. Off she goes and I turn around only to find a GINORMOUS puddle of pee all over the floor in front of the toilet (yes she got pee in the toilet too...I even heard that part)! 

Did someone give this child a few IV bags of fluid today? I hope she is done for the night...I think we've she's had her fill for the day!
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Miss Olivia has been known to wake in the middle of her slumber with the need to use the restroom. Now I know this is a normal need for many people but for this child it involves drama! Every single time she gets up she is completely disorientated and CRABBY (just like her mommy).

Let me set the stage for tonight's episode:

It's 10PMish, I'm talking on the phone with a friend about school stuff and I hear grumbling/whining coming down the stairs. I look up to see Liv rushing past me, through the kitchen on her way to the bathroom. As she's rushing past me I say, "honey what are you doing"? Liv, "unhh" and some form of babble/moaning/whining after. "Honey, do you have to go to the bathroom"? To which I get the same response, "unhh" babble/moan/whine. "Honey why didn't you just use my bathroom"? Again more of the same response. 

Let me remind you that their bathroom is still under construction so I get that, but the master bathroom is on the opposite wall as theirs. So she climbed down her ladder, out the room, rounds the banister, down the stairs, through the foyer, past the family room, through the kitchen and into the bathroom. Or the other option would have been climb down the ladder, out the room, take a right and a quick left into the bathroom....yeah I can see how her option would be easier or not

She finishes up and walks out of the bathroom, through the kitchen, and into the family room while whining, moaning & groaning. As she's walking I notice something trailing behind her like a tail, not dragging but flapping in motion. As she approaches the family room and is throwing herself down on the couch I realize exactly what that was flapping behind her....yep you guessed it...Toilet Paper! Not only was it trailing behind her but wrapped around her and stuck in her PJ bottoms in various locations...like she had TP'ed herself! 

I was laughing so hard and called Don in to help me with her because there was no way I'd be able to get her upstairs by myself. As he's coming into the room I start unraveling her only to find out that the TP was not dry...'nuf said. We were both laughing and wishing I had taken a photo...that would have been a good one for graduation day! :)

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

8.85!!!

We most certainly had a lot on our platter this past weekend kicked off by Nico's game which kept us out unto 9:45PM. Once we got home the kids were sent to bed because we had an early morning ahead of us...early by weekend standards that is. I was up by 6:30, and if you know me at all I AM NOT a morning person, but I did well (yay me)! I had all the kids up, fed, out the door by 7:45 and on our way to Moberly for Liv's 2nd gymnastics meet ever...we had to be there by 8:30AM for warm-ups.
Warming up...

Here team's 1st event was the Vault which is her best event. She did awesome on her Vault, she scored an 8.85 earning her a blue ribbon. Her second event was Bars...just about every girl struggled in this event this weekend, but she still managed to get a score of 7.30 earning a white ribbon. These are the two events that she competed in in the last meet and if you'll note she brought her scores up in both...WAY TO GO LIV!!

After some encouragement by her Coach C and us she decided to compete on Beam and Floor. Liv was worried that she wouldn't remember the routine (she only goes 1 night a week and most of the others go 2 nights...so she doesn't get as much practice), but Coach C assured her that she could stand by Liv and coach her through it without Liv losing points...so that's what they did, and she did GREAT!
Liv waiting on the judges to begin...

Warming up for Floor....she is in the process of doing her back walk over 
(note the tongue - she gets that from her daddy)...
She scored a 8.00 on Beam earning her a red ribbon and a 7.30 for Floor which is a white ribbon. Then at the end of the meet they had a fun little handstand competition and then they all got a scrunchie for participating.
Posing for mom after the meet ended...

Daddy was busy with the Spring game which is why he wasn't with us.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Gymnastics

We just got Olivia's gymnastics pictures back last night...

This photo is part of a small collage...the part that is cut off is the team photo...

The pictures aren't the greatest quality since I had to take a picture of the photo to post...our scanner doesn't work.

Isn't she sweet though??? Her next meet is on April 18th and she is excited for that!

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

First Meet

This past Saturday Olivia had her very 1st gymnastics meet. She has been in gymnastics since she was about 2 years old...we started off in a parent/tot class with some friends and she has worked her way up to level 4. Liv goes 1 night a week for 3 hours (her coach wants her their 2 nights but we said no for now), and she has come along way in her skills since school has started. I think this girl is on her hands doing handstands more then she's on her feet...it's obvious that she loves it!

This weekend Liv decided that she only wanted to compete in two events for her 1st time and opted for the vault and bars. On the vault she scored an 8.5  & received a blue ribbon (the best
 you can get), and on bars her score was 7.0 & received a white ribbon (3rd best ribbon you can
 get). In addition to receiving her ribbons she also got a cute sling back back-pack and a lanyard with gymnastics written on it...gifts that they all got for entering in the meet. We took video of her and if I can figure out our new video camera I will post the video...it's so cute!

The girls are stretching (Liv is the one with her back to the camera)...
The girls lined up waiting for their turn at the vault (like I said in the basketball post, no action shots because the turn out blurry with my big lens)....

Way to go Olivia, we are so proud of you...you did an AWESOME job!!

Crazy Busy Weekend

This past weekend was FILLED, FILLED, FILLED with lots of exciting and draining events for us. Here is a taste of what our weekend was like:

Thursday:
  • 11 Am - Pick up dad from airport 
  • noon - Pick Bella up from school 
  • 12:15-12:45 PM- Grad lunch & shove it down throat
  • 1 PM - Pick the older ones up (early out & no school on Friday because of conferences)
  • Come home and work on auction stuff
  • 3:30 - 9 PM - Don at work (football practice, laundry & whatever else they take care of post practice)
  • 4-5 PM - go to the older 3's parent-teacher conferences (BTW they were, for the most part, good)
  • 5:30 -  Dinner @ Ruby Tuesdays with Dad, the kids, my sister & her new beau and then all back to my house
  • After dinner and chillin' for awhile at home worked on auction
  • Went to bed!
Friday:
  • 8:30AM - back up and gone for the whole day working on the auction
  • 9:00AM - Picking up stuff at CCS for the auction
  • 9:45AM  - dropped Bail off at Humane Society to work their Open House for the final zootoo push (which we ended #1 in the 1st phase...YAY!)...she worked until 8PM!
  • 10 AM - 10PM - was at the fairgrounds setting up for the auction
  • 10:00 PM - came home and chatted with dad and then went to bed and watched the end of the Mizzou game
  • 11PM - CRASHED
Saturday:
  • 6AM - 3PM - Don at football
  • 7AM - wake up and head to Nico's final Basketball game
  • 8-9AM - Nico's Game
  • 9:30 - Pick up the girls and head out again
  • 10-11:30AM - Bail & Grandpa are on campus for Bail's history day project (get results and tips on how to better their project for state)
  • 10:30-noon Nico has 1st Baseball practice @ CCS
  • Work on power point intermittently throughout morning and early afternoon
  • 3PM - I'm all clean, dressed & ready to go. Head out to fairgrounds to drop off my stuff for the event, and Bail as she is helping a friend babysit for the evening
  • 3:30Pm - head to Gymnastics Meet
  • Meet from 4-6PM (Don & I only get to stay until 5 because we need to get back to get ready for the auction)
  • Auction from 6:30 - 12:30AM
  • Home & CRASH
Sunday:
  • 9:30 - noon -Back to the fairgrounds for clean-up
  • Rest of the day - I DO NOTHING & TAKE A NAP!!!
  • 6:30PM - Don & Ang made an awesome Italian Dinner for us
Monday:
  • Back to the normal rat race and Dad headed back home
Are you tired yet?? This is the reason that this was my last year co-chairing the Auction. I have been involved with it for 8 years and it's time for some new blood to have fun with it!

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

(Mostly) Wordless Wednesday


So Sweet!! The girls were watching a movie together on a cot in our room and this resulted!