Oh, Oh, Oh Olivia!

Olivia is a handful!!!  There’s really no other way to put it.  She is strong-willed; she knows what she wants and she’s going to get it; and she doesn’t take ‘no’ too well.  Maybe it's  a girl thing or maybe a 2nd child thing because we don't remember Kahn being this 'busy', but I think we have our work cut out for us with her.  We always tell people she is ‘busy’ when they ask about her, but I think that’s just the nice way of saying that she is totally mischievous, completely independent, hates to share, loves to push the boundaries, won't sit in her high chair, laughs when we yell at her but then cries hysterically when we put her in time-out, climbs on tables, hits and pushes her brother and basically loves to get into trouble--and then an instant later is the sweetest, most lovable little girl in the entire world!  Oh, and she’s only 18 months!  My dad just laughs at me when I tell him about her.  Supposedly, I was the same way when I was little.  He likes to tell me that ‘paybacks are a bitch’.  [I may be a little biased, but I think I turned out pretty damn good so maybe all this is a good thing…it’s a stretch, I know, but just trying to look on the bright side].

Here’s a few pictures of her tonight when she refused to get out of the car.  Yes, she decided not to get out of the car after a disastrous trip to Publix (that literally had me in tears and questioning (yet again), why I don't beat my children!).  It was so typical of her that I had to pull out the camera and take a few pics.  She loves throwing herself onto the ground and screaming when she doesn’t get her way, and tonight she decided to lay on the floor in the car to make the point that she didn’t want to get out, telling me ‘no’ with this huge smile on her face.  And no, she doesn't have shoes on in this picture.  She had to take them off in Publix too.  She’s seriously going to be the end of me, but damn we love her so, so, so, so much!!!