Happy 3rd Birthday Olivia!!!

At 5:57 this morning, three years ago, Olivia Amber Lee was born. We are so blessed to have her in our lives and Steve and I still can't believe we have a 3 year old. Audrey, Olivia, and I are traveling back to Wyoming at the end of this month for my grandma's 80th birthday party and while we are there we'll have a small party for Olivia's birthday with family. But today she still got a few presents, dinner, and a cake. To start it off, I let her open up one of our gifts this morning while Audrey was napping.

Yes, that's right, it's Candy Land, a game all kids must have, right? So we had mommy - livia bonding time. AND...

She beat me! I didn't even let her win.

Steve wanted to take the kids to McDonalds and let them play in the play land. Uh honey... have you met our kids. Olivia has always been timid about doing things, she is not a daredevil at all and has to have us right there by her side. Well, there was no way I was crawling through all the tubing because 1. I'm claustrophobic and 2. There were a ton of wild little boys screaming and racing through as fast as they could go bumping into each other. I don't blame Olivia but this is about how far she went the whole time...
Can anyone say hand sanitizer please?

Well, at least we got our pictures taken with Ronald McDonald. It wasn't easy to get the girls to sit close to him. Audrey cried for awhile before she finally smiled. Again, a little timid. That's o.k., I think I was like that too.
She opened up a nightgown that she loved from Aunt Lisa, Uncle Lee, and Grayson and earlier that day she opened a medical doctor's kit from Aunt Shelley, Uncle Jeff, Macie and Garrett. She played with that for awhile checking all my vitals. Thanks guys.

When we got home, she blew out candles from a last minute swing by Baskin Robins and get an ice cream cake because how can we let the day go by and not have a cake. Now that I think about it that was Steve's idea and I know how much he loves ice cream cakes, hmmm. Was it really for her or him? Just kidding honey.
Steve told me, "Well, we made it through the terrible twos." And I said, "I think it's the twos and threes." Oh well!
I'll leave you with some funny things Olivia has said over this last year of her twos:

Some of these I have posted before but here they are in lump sum:
-"You were outside and I was losting you!"
-"We're playing hiding seek."
-My dad gave her some pine cones to throw in the water, she looked up at him and said, "You're a nice grandpa."
-Me-"Who's ready to go?" Olivia-"Me." Me- "You are?" Olivia-"Yep, am are."
-Talking to another kid who was looking at her insulin pump she said, "It's my biabetus. It makes me sick in my toe."
-She looked into her Happy Meal and said, "Hey, what's the big idea?"
-To Audrey she said, "I love you baby sister. You're my best friend."
-She wanted me to read another story after I said last one. She kissed me and said, "I love you mom!" I said, "You're such a little manipulator." and she said, "I'm not a nipulator."
-October 2007, "Mom, I pooped!" Me-"O.k." Her-"Mom, I pooped again." Me-"O.k. honey, that's great." Her-"Mom, I pooped in the dryer." Me-"WHAT?" Yes, it's true and disgusting but she crawled inside the dryer after already going in the toilet and voila. I cleaned it thoroughly with disinfectant. Oooo, gross!
-December 2007 she kept saying to everyone, "What's wrong with everybody?" or "Mom, something's wrong with everybody." To myself-Ya, what is wrong with everybody? Hee hee.
-We were eating dinner and she said, "This is the worst idea I ever heard of in my whole life."
-She calls magazines, "mazagines"
-She calls strawberry shortcake, "strawberry cortcake"
-She says "hedick" instead of headache.
-This morning we were eating breakfast and she said, "Maybe we should move onto dessert."