Sweet Little O!

Happy 5th Birthday Olivia!! It seems like just yesterday we celebrated her 4th birthday. Where does the time go?  We have been extremely blessed with such a funny/crazy/weird little person, who is now 5 years old! I don't think there has been a day go by that Olivia hasn't said something funny or something to put a smile on our face. She is an extremely picky eater but with our encouragement she is getting better with eating and trying new things. When asked what she wanted for her birthday dinner she said peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I'm fairly confident that she could eat pb&j sandwiches every day of the week. She is also quite the challenge for us as parents. I tell her all the time she is going to give me gray hair or no hair. I think it's an understatement to say that she is quite a character.

(She had a piece of rice stuck on her nose)

Just some things I would like to share with you that Olivia has said recently:

Samuel was sitting on the couch next to me, Olivia came into the room and started laughing and laughing. So I asked what was so funny and she replied, "Samuel is sitting on the couch like a human!"

Olivia was learning scripture and part of it was Luke 4:44 which says..."And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee" We were going over it and I asked her if she could try to say it on her own and she said of course...." And he preached in the Galliglogs of Salilee."

We were visiting with Steve and Sherri Vaughn a while back and had just been teaching and talking to Olivia about treating others the way you want to be treated. If I recall the situation right she was asking Sherri if she could help her do something and said that "I just want to treat you the way I want to treat you" to which Sherri was kind of concerned how was she wanting to treat her. It was kind of a confusing moment but after I realized what she was talking about had a VERY good laugh!!

Both girls went to wash their hands and when they came out of the bathroom I asked if their hands were all clean and Olivia replied with, "Yup cuz I used hanitizer." (I think she meant hand sanitizer)

I was boiling some eggs on the stove for hard boiled eggs and Olivia was helping. After looking in the pan with the eggs with a questioning look on her face she asked, "Mama why do you have rotten eggs in boiling water?"

She has been helping Samuel learn how to walk and one day she was walking around with him and let go and said, "Mama hurry and look, Samuel is walking like a human!"  (maybe one day we will tell her that he is a human, lol)

Ok just one more....the other day Olivia was using the bathroom and called out that there was no toilet paper in there and she needed someone to bring her some. So I said "Ok, Lilly is going to go get you some", then Olivia calls out and says "Nevermind!!". I'm thinking to myself nevermind?! So I asked if she found some toilet paper and she said, "No, I'm just going to use my hand!" To which I replied with a "NOOOOO!" and ran to the bathroom to stop that from happening!!!

We had ice cream cookie cups...

(chocolate chip cookie on bottom, scoop of ice cream

on top of that with whip cream and chocolate syrup)

Dress up with her cousins on a trip to Texas a couple weeks ago.

From top, left to right: Sophia as Blue M&M, Olivia as a Bumble bee, Lilly as a Fairy

Gia as a Bride Princess and in very front none other than Jerry as the Hulk