So Sad

This has been a crazy, stressful, exciting, heartbreaking, fun, whirlwind of a month. And this is why:

For those of you who don't know, poor little Olive broke her leg! We were having a lovely time at the park and I thought "I will be the cool mom that takes you down the big slide". She has been down the slide before but usually with daddy. Half way down her little leg slipped off my lap and got caught between the slide and my leg. It was horrible.

She was in a hard splint for a week until we saw an pediatric orthopedic who said it need to be in a cast or boot for 5 (yes 5!!) weeks. He talked me into the boot option. All I will say is that boot was the bane of my existence. It was torture.
She hated walking on it and would crawl most places or sit crying and frustrated. That horrible boot would just randomly fall off and always in the worst places like the grocery store where it was impossible to put it back on.
The doc said it was important that she sleep with it on so if she stood up at night she wouldn't tweak her weak leg. I tried a million different ways to keep her from taking the boot off and not one of them worked. If we did manage keep her boot on at night she could not sleep and woke up a million times until I finally went in and took it off so we could all get some sleep.

We called her peg-leg pirate because of how she had to walk. The boot was too long, and usually I couldn't get it on perfectly so she would have to swing her leg really wide to get it around.

I had to explain a to so many strangers how I broke her leg (which I found out that this is a rather common injury for toddlers, so common in fact that it is called a Toddler's Fracture because they have a weak spot in their shin)

Finally I called and demanded that we get a real cast. I didn't care if I had to sponge bathe her and cancel swim lessons, that boot was going to kill me. So then we got this:

And thankfully our life has gone back to normal.

It is kinda adorable to watch Olive walk on it because she goes around on her tippy-toes (which she already did but a cast somehow makes it cuter).

This cast doesn't stop her one bit, she is actually sleeping and napping, my arm is not breaking from carrying and almost 2 year old everywhere, we can actually enjoy the sunshine and go outside instead of watch Aladdin for the 80th time. I am not quite sure where May went but I am pretty glad it is over and I am so excited for June!

I just loved this picture. It is so Olive. She picked out her headband, which perfectly matched her cast. She is so proud of her necklace. You can just tell she couldn't be happier to be perched up on that chair like a grown up. Yep, it is perfectly Olive.

I started loading my overabundance of pictures from our trip onto my computer when a screen popped up. It said there was no room left on my start up disk and it couldn't download my pictures. When I called Scott he said that if I did something wrong it could erase my entire computer and really mess everything up. Crappers! I am so scared to do anything on my computer now until it gets fixed. I feel like it is a fragile little baby that I must not disturb at all costs. It has our life on here. The thought of possibly losing all of our pictures and movies makes me want to throw up which is serious because I have a rather extreme vomit phobia. ( There are probably tons of mistakes in this post because I am trying to type very fast). So sadly no pictures today, and hopefully I will be able to post later this week but possibly not. Ahhhh!

Location:Bummer

What is with Olive's crazy hair?

Fail. I'm sure everyone came to check my blog yesterday and didn't get a post. You must be so disappointed. (I know that none of that is really true but I like to believe I am very important)
Only one week of a schedule and I already missed a day? What if I have a good reason?

We are actually at Disneyland today! I am posting today, so there, that is dedication. Besides most of the people that read my blog are here anyway.

I really love this place. I only came a few times as a kid. But the true magic is coming with your own kids. It is so fun to see Olive love going on rides and spending time with my little family ( and extended family). Now I know why people love coming here.

This is lame I know and cheesy but true. More to come later, as in next week. I promise..

"Heh-bo?!!!"

That is how Olive answers the phone. "Heh-bo? Ok!"

She is very in love with phones. It was probably her first love. From the time she could grasp something in her hand, she would hold it to her head and use it as a phone. I loved her baby jabbers as she talked into anything she could get her hands on, it didn't matter. From shoes, spoons, remote controls, rattles, and sometimes nothing at all (she would just hold her hand to her ear and talk).

We inherited some toys from an older boy cousin and since we parents didn't realize she would have such a phone obsession we didn't really buy her any girl toys. Not to worry, Olive would improvise and scoot/crawl/walk with toy cars held to her ear. That is when we realized she might like some pretend phones. Her aunt gave her the first one and it talked back when you pushed the buttons. All Olive could say about it was "OOOOOOOOOO!" She was hooked.

Since she loved phones so much she started talking to daddy on the phone at an early age mostly because she would loudly scream at me until she had a turn. It was the only way to get a chance to finish a conversation. Sometimes she would just lay and listen silently or sometimes she would babble nonstop. She loved/s talking to dad so much that whenever the phone rings she yells "DADA!!" Since Scott is in his car a lot of the day Olive gets to talk to dad about 3 times every day and she couldn't be happier. Here is how a typical conversation goes:

Serious concentration at first. (By the way sorry about the clutter of playdough stuff and her beautiful frog bib. I guess I could have cleaned that all up for the pictures.)

Then examining the phone. When Scott calls his picture comes up and Olive is in it as well. Occasionally she will get too distracted by the picture of herself and won't talk but just stare at herself staring at herself. It must be kinda trippy. In this case the was overloaded with play dough toys that she got distracted. At one point she was holding the yellow thing up to her ear to talk instead of the phone.

Then she usually sings (screams) a song or animal sounds or answers whatever questions dad is asking about.

Now Olive is double checking that the phone is still on. Often times that means that she then touches the screen and hangs up on dad. Are you still there dad?

This is what I am guessing she will look like when she is a teenager and is annoyed by her parents listening to her talk on the phone. Ugh Mom!

Now Olive is saying "All done. Bye Bye. All done daddy". If I am not with her when she decides to stop talking to dad she comes running into the room holding the phone up. It always makes me chuckle because I can hear Scott still talking away on the other end without a clue that Olive has stopped listening. We are going to have huge phone bills someday!