Loving Olivia: Games and Blog Problems

I have been trying to add pictures to my blog for 4 days. Everytime I would click on "add image" it would ding. I was getting very frustrated. I went onto blogger a few times to try to get answers and then I finally went to the correct spot on blogger and fixed the problem. I couldn't imagine never adding pictures again. Sometime last week Peter wanted to know if my "pop-up blocker" was on and it wasn't so we enabled it and that disabled my ability to add pictures. Very strange.

This weekend we played games for the first time as a family. We received a bunch of games from a wonderful family in Beaumont at my shower 2 1/2 years ago and Olivia is finally of age to play them. We played Chutes and Ladder, CandyLand and Hi Ho Cherry-O. She sort of got the concept of the games. She wanted it to be her turn every turn. She acted helpless on Chutes and Ladder. She pretended she didn't know how to count. There are times she pull the helpless act and then others she wants to do everything herself and doesn't need help.

She has been a Momma's girl lately. If I get up to leave the room she will ask where am I going and then she will usually follow me wherever. If I am on the computer, (front of the house) and she is in my room (back of the house) she will yell, "Where are you Momma?" It drives me bonkers I hate when I am yelled at across the house. Peter will ask if she wants something to drink or a snack and she will tell him no and turn around and ask me for a drink or a snack. And she must "hold me." I must admit there are times I really love it when she acts that way but it gets kind of old. My favorite one is when I have made her mad she will ask for her daddy and then the minute he comes to her she changes her mind and wants me.

Friday, Peter and Olivia went to Ikea to get her some more spoons. I love their little package of spoons, forks and knives. There are 21 nice size utensils in 7 different colors in a package and they only cost $2.00. Anyway, Olivia saw a "beautiful princess bed". It had the little sheer canopy over the bed so of course Daddy had to buy it for her. She really likes it. We have to "open" or "close" the castle doors for her. Check out the last picture.

Her potty training is going great. The only thing is she is still wearing a diaper at night and is soaking it. So last night Peter put her little potty in her room next to a night light and told her if she need to go to get out of bed and use the little potty. She soaked the bed last night. So we are trying it again tonight. When I was tucking her in tonight I asked her if she was going to teetee in bed and she told me no that she was going to teetee on her potty. We shall see.