Our Girl and Minnie

I just took Olivia to her Well Child check up. Here are her 2 year old stats: Length: 33 1/4in 30th percentile. Weight: 26lbs 45 percentile. She's definately little compared to what her brothers were. But she sure is cute!
Olivia has a love almost as big as her love for her bear and it's Minnie. She has a Minnie Mouse shirt and she loves it. If she see's it she has to wear it. If her jammies are clean she has to wear them. She tucks Minnie into bed with her next to her and Bear. I have to admit I think it's pretty darn cute. Here are a few pictures of her and her Minnie attire lately:)

This is one of my favorite faces she pulls. The surprise, shocked look!

Her purse full of her princess dolls is another favorite these days.

This was when we were trying to head out of the house one day. She had to have her minnie drink, bear and a gogurt. Then she was ticked that I was trying to take her picture:) This little girl brings so much fun to our home. I love having her as my little buddy.

Heavenly Father Answers Prayers

Last sunday we came home from church and Brandon realized he didn't have his keys with him. He had used mine to drive home. We searched the house and couldn't find them. He thought he left them at the church so he drove back over there and searched everywhere. After about an hour of searching he called me and said he couldn't find them. I started to search the house again and had no luck. So I got the boys together and explained that we needed to pray and ask Heavenly Father to help us find Brandon's keys. We said a little prayer and after a few minutes the phone rang. Brandon found his keys. They were in the parking lot at the church in the snow.
I was so grateful to Heavenly Father for giving me the opportunity to teach my boys this simple lesson. Ask and ye shall recieve, knock and it will be opened.

Party Like You're 2!

On Monday was our beautiful little girls 2nd birthday. We spent the day playing with balloons while we waited for our boys to get home. That evening we opened presents, ate pizza, and had friends over for cake and ice cream. It was simple and fun and she loved it. Grandma Bishop gave Olivia a box full of dress ups. She loved it! She wanted to put every dress on and every pair of princess shoes on. There is a purple tutu that she wore every day this week, pretty much the entire day. She also got a pack of princess dolls that she absolutely loves, all except Aerial. She kindly sets her to the side and will play with the other 6 princesses. If she has to share with a friend Aerial is the first one to be given away. Kind of funny!

Saturday we had a combined birthday party with "Ti-Ti" whose birthday is the first week of february. We just had 3 little girls from nursery come over and we just played. We had boxes they could play with, balloons, and bubbles. We had all the kids decorate little minnie mouse ears. Then had cupcakes and called it good. It was cute seeing these two little girls who are such good friends have a specail day together. It's moments like this that make me sad though because in a year they probably won't remember eachother. Maybe they'll come to Ohio too:)

As far as I could tell Olivia had a great birthday. She is full of 2 year old sweet and sass. She has learned how to say "No!" and loves to say it. She pulls all sorts of funny expressions with her cute little face. She loves her bear still and Minnie. She is obsessed with her dolls being "poopie" right now and is constantly changing their diapers. (In the first collage that's what she's doing with her little princess doll in the top middle.) She loves shoes and if she sees a pair she has to try them on. She is busy! She's constantly getting food out of the fridge or cupboards. When she plays she dumps everything out of the bucket or bag and usually only plays for a minute or two and then moves on to the next thing. She loves to "help" empty the dishwasher, or unfold, I mean fold clothes with me.
Olivia is truly a JOY to have in our family. Brandon and I get a kick out of her and love having a little girl come and soften these boys in our family. Her brothers adore her and love to play with her and take care of her. We're so glad she's in our family.

Loosing Teeth

Porter lost his first tooth on tuesday. He was VERY apprehensive about getting it pulled. He wanted to know for sure that it would grow back and that he would still be able to eat all the food he loves. I finally had to just grab it and pull it out, the anticipation was killing us both. After it was out he had a shocked look on his face and said, "that didn't even hurt!" He was very proud of himself and was excited and ready to go to bed so the tooth fairy would come. Lucky for him the tooth fairy almost forgot but as she was ready to go to bed for the night remembered. At 7 the next morning he came running into my room saying, "mom look what the tooth fairy brought me!" He was very excited and I don't think loosing the other teeth is going to be that hard to get them out. Later that night he asked me, "mom can I go to the store with you tomorrow?" I was shocked because this boy NEVER wants to go to the store. So I asked him why. He said, "Because I want to spend my money!"

Another reason why Porter is going to be a heartbreaker!

This little boy is smooth! This little boy is sweet! This little boy will be a heartbreaker!

The other day we were riding in the car and the song, Amazing came one. It goes, "girl you're amazing, just the way you are!" Anyway he sang his little heart out to it. When the song was over he said, "you know who I think is amazing mom???? You!"

I said to Brandon you could learn a few tips from your son. He then complimented Brandon on something and he said you could too!

We love this boy!