Olivia turned 2 and we've been married for 5 years!

Olivia (back on May 1st) turned two!  Our not so "little" girl is getting so big.  She's also becoming a big rascal.  She does these jokes all the time, like when she looks at you out of the corner of her eye with a cheeky grin.  She's even got into a very specific joke we do as a family.  It goes like this:
Person A: "Are you going upstairs?" this could be any sentence with a noun
Person B: "You're an upstairs!" just add whatever the noun was from the previous sentence to "You're a ..."
Person A: "I'll upstairs you in a minute!" a mock threat retort to the last sentence, again just inserting the noun.


Now, Olivia has learned the retort and says it right on cue but she says:

Olivia: "Upstairs you midi!!!!" with enthusiasm.  It's freakin adorable.

Now for me to use my "potty" mouth.  On Mar 10, Dan and I were in the kitchen and Olivia was in the fireplace room. She started making a few noises, so we went in to go see, and she had her pants and diaper off on the potty. When she was done I checked, and no pee. A while later I saw her in the fireplace room again, having pulled her pants up as much as she could, looked at me and said "pee!" sure enough, she peed in the potty for the first time!  On Apr, 20 Olivia pooped on the potty.  She's wearing pull ups and getting more potty trained every day.

Robin and Olivia are tending to like "girly" things such as dresses and painting nails, being princesses and brides.  Olivia even stopped on the middle of the stairs to say "paint my toes!"And Olivia is in the stage right now of loooooving pink.  Robin got past it and realized there are more colours in the rainbow, and so Olivia will too.  Not that pink is that bad, but a little variety doesn't hurt.

They have many battles of late, mostly over possessions.  Toys, books, pieces of lint, hunks of garbage, an specific infinitesimal part of a room, whatever.  Sometimes things that are so absurd, they have to be written down to ensure they actually happened and my brain was going into hallucination mode:

Robin: "Daddy, there's five boogies coming out of Olivia's nose!"

Olivia: "No, FOUR boogies!!!!!"

Robin: "No FIVE!!!"

Olivia: "FOUR!!!"

Daddy: {they go to bed at 8; I can have a Scotch then}

I guess when Olivia's nose is running for almost 2 months straight, things start to get specific.

More recently, Robin wrote her name clearly on father's day!  She did it with Grandma early in the day, and it looks pretty good to me!  This happened when Grandma and Grandpa had the kids overnight while Jen and I stayed over at the Inn at the Forks.  Since we got married there 5 years ago, it seemed pretty appropriate, and it was great. 

I'll end with this quote by Robin when we were watching the playoffs.  I was a little disappointed I won't lie, but I'll win her over yet.

Robin: "when is hockey over? I want to watch commercials!"