Let the Games begin!

For the Olympics' opening ceremony, we ate take out Chinese and wore our Olympic t-shirts we bought while we were in China over 2 years ago. The Chinese did an amazing job. I was so proud of them. I didn't get to watch the whole thing but I am very excited to start watching the events.

Running red lights!

There is one thing I dislike about living in Houston. People running red lights. It drives me crazy. Today I was going to pick up Olivia from church and I get into the turning lane and the person in front of me continues straight. The light turns red and he is at least 20 to 30 feet from the intersection and he runs the red light and there are police all over that corner because they help the people in Greenway Plaza exit out of the parking garages. Plus there are traffic cameras at the intersection. There were so many people upset about the traffic cameras going in and they were complaining that it was against the law to put in the cameras. HELLO running a red light is against the law. Do people not realize that running a red light is dangerous and can cause a wreck? Not in Houston they don't. When I am the lead car at the light and the light turns green I will sit for just brief second to make sure that no one runs the light. There have been times that me doing this has saved me from getting in a wreck. I wish some people would just realize that it is not always about them.

Just a rainy lazy day!

It just rained all day. The wind didn't even blow where we live. Edouard shifted in the middle of the night (they always do) so we really didn't feel it too much accept for the rain and it really didn't rain that hard. Olivia's school was closed so we stayed home and played and layed around all day.

Tropical Storm Edouard

We should start to feel TS Edouard later on this evening. When I was watching the weather this morning it was said that it will take about 24 hours for Edouard to leave but who knows what kind of damage it will leave behind. Living in SE Texas the majority of my life I have gone through several tropical storms and have had to evacuate once with Hurricane Rita. The tropical storms and even a Cat 1 hurricane aren't too bad. Just alot of rain and wind. The neighborhood I live in only the streets flood so we may not be able to get out at all tomorrow and we may lose electricity. I am not that worried about it. I am just glad it is not any worse than it is because I never want to have to evacuate again. The thought of 14 hours on the road with a 3 year old doesn't sound like a lot of fun.

Saturday drive to the country

Yesterday, we sent to see my cousin and her husband. They live about 17 miles west of Huntsville in the "country". When we turned on the road they live on it was another 2 miles to get to their house and we had to go about 15 mph because it was a dirt road. When we got to the house we realized why they live out there... it is quiet.

Jana is a teacher and she has a guinea pig for the classroom but since it is summer Squishy is living in a cage in her living room. Olivia loved Squishy. She kept picking him up and giving him to either Jana or Peter. He would "talk" to you if you scratched his hind end.

We only stayed a couple of hours but is was nice to just get out of Houston for a little while. On the way home we saw a gas @ 3.69 at a Kroger in Conroe and since we have a Kroger card we could get an additional 10 cents off so we pulled off the highway and preceded to wait around 20 minutes with the windows rolled down in 100 degree weather to get gas for 3.59 a gallon. It was worth it considering gas in Houston is anywhere between 3.85 and 4.00 dollars a gallon. The things we do to save a little money.

Nice Squishy
Here Daddy take Squishy.
Be still Squishy.
Aunt Jana, Mommy & Olivia
What is that?

Olivia Shining Mommy's Feet?

I was sitting in the recliner in our office and Olivia took off the armchair covers and preceded to "shine" my feet. I looked at Peter and he told me they saw a "shoe shiner" at the carwash today. It was so funny. Then she got a sqeaky toy and pretended to put lotion on my feet and them massaged them. I wished she would have massaged them a little longer.

Shining Mommy's feet
Be still Mommy.
Rubbing Mommy's feet

Cute Pictures

Olivia watching "Beauty and the Beast" while Mommy cleans out her closet. Olivia must of felt she needed her bicycle helmut in case she fell out of her box.
Loving on her puppy!
Wearing her helmut again just in case! :-)

Olivia having breakfast. Mommy thought she looked so cute she had to take her picture.
Olivia, Isabella, the "other" Olivia and Zoe watching "Toy Story".

Countdown to the Olympics

When we were in Beijing the Olympic counter said 826 days, 10 hours, 53 minutes and 21 seconds. Now we are less than 12 days from the Olympics.

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.

Olivia & Annabelle
Playing Chutes and Ladders.
Yum... I like chocolate!
Princess Olivia in her "castle".

Brunch with the Saksons

We had brunch with the Sakson's today at a wonderful mexican food restaurant called "Cyclone Anaya's" here in Houston. The food was awesome. We had breakfast so I look forward to having dinner there very soon. Mr. Will got a great picture of Olivia and Zoe. They were so cute and polite with each other this morning.

Sea World, Zoo and Swimming!!

This past week we went to Sea World in San Antonio and the Zoo and of course swimming in the pool at the hotel which was the most fun by far according to Olivia. We all had a great time!!

I do have to tell something very funny Olivia said last night at the hotel. Peter and I were laying in the bed reading and Olivia was in her little bed reading as well. She looks at Peter and me and asks, "Do you want to smell my finger?" Peter and I just look at each other and laugh and then ask her where her finger has been and she replies, "My booty!" I really have no idea where she got that from but she was so serious and a little put out by us because we didn't want to smell her finger.

Sweet Olivia