Dresses, twirling and butterflies!

These days Olivia just wants to wear her pretty dresses and twirl around in them.  She has a favorite black dress with butterflies all over that we wear 2-3 times a week; it's great for twirling.  Olivia also found the bags of too small clothes and ransacked them, pulling out Christmas dresses from last year, and Insisting on wearing them and twirling.  Super cute.  She says how pretty she is.

Olivia is also becoming adept at dressing herself.  "No Mommy.  I do it."  We've been watching Disney movies and she's certainly identifying with the princesses.

Tonight is her elementary school's open house from 6-7pm.  We plan to check it out.

Olivia also stays up late these days, playing with her legos in her room.  Last night she made a symmetric castle, I was impessed!  She's just the sweetest little girl.  We do butterfly kisses at night and tonight I will start Olivia time and give her a solid 15-20 min of undivided attention. 

Need to do Something

This is one of Olivia's new phrases to try and get out of things.... "but mommy, I need to DO something."  I think she picked it up from me telling her to hold on a sec while I finished something.  She's a hoot, and is doing OK at her little dance class.  Last week a little girl told Olivia to get out of her spot.... Olivia was surprised and sad... pouted the rest of the class.  Hopefully she will dance tonight.  Olivia's been a little under the weather lately and i think she's better now.  We have flowers to give her teachers for teacher appreciation week.  And cupcakes.  The flowers are for the ones who calm Olivia down in the morning at drop off.   It can't be easy.  From my perspective,  i love that she wants to spend time with me, but I'm sad for her when she's so upset at drop off.  We'll see how today goes...