Tears, Potty Training, and Swimming!

More photos and updates! I had to snap this picture of Olivia just throwing herself on the floor and crying in hysterics for being told "no" a few weeks ago. This is only one picture in a series of many, but you can see best from this one how worked up she got herself. She is so pathetic and cute at the same time. I am definitely getting my payback for my childhood now!

Olivia has been doing well with potty training since last summer, but we hadn't really focused real hard on it yet. So over Midwinter break, Olivia and I had four straight days together where we just potty trained. She took to it very well, until the first accident where she just cried because she did not like being wet. She immediately demanded a bath, to which I obliged. She then wanted a diaper back on. To prevent any loss in our efforts thus far, daddy and I took Olivia shopping to pick out some big girl underwear herself. She had fun debating through the many animated characters available these days, and decided on Elmo. She now wants to wear Elmo daily. She has been doing great since, with very few accidents!

We aren't quite sure what happened in this photo. We heard Olivia running, then a thud, and then the wailing. She quickly stopped crying and was calmed down and playing with me, when about 15 minutes later I noticed the blood across her eyelid. I nonchalantly tried to get Andy to look at it, but he mentioned blood. She had to then go look in a mirror and the tears started again. She cried the next day too, when she could no longer see her boo-boo. She has been very accident prone lately. A trait I am afraid she gets from me. Aunt Jennifer came over to play with Olivia one evening this past week and she was flipping her around. Well, Olivia lost her footing and didn't quite hit her landing and fell flat on her face. This in turn caused her first nose bleed. Blood was gushing everywhere, and tears were flowing almost as fast. We were trying to keep her to tip her head back, because it stopped bleeding when she did, but she kept tipping it forward and it would gush all over again. We eventually calmed her with a bath and some Cinderella temporary tattoos that Jennifer had brought for her.

Olivia has been spending a lot of time at the pool with daddy lately. Now that I am teaching the reading class after school Olivia heads to practice with daddy for the first bit. She usually stays for the whole practice one day a week. She has so much fun being with the big kids and swimming. She has even gone down the big water slide in the diving pool and gone under water. She was so proud when she did it and had to call and tell me about it. She just loves Melanie at the pool too. Melanie is so great with kids. She used to babysit for my sister and I when we were little and now Olivia gets to have her be a big part in her life too! It looks like she has inherited daddy's swimming gene!