She's a HOT mess!

Okay, so everyone who meets Olivia will say, "Omg! she is beautiful!" then they will go on to ask, "What's your name sweetie?" Most kids will answer in a soft shy voice or some may even proudly state their name loud and proudly... not Ollie. She closes her eyes (to make herself invisible) and turns away. She will continue to ignore them, with her eyes closed, until I answer for her and they leave. Olivia doesn't talk much and the few words she does say are, "Mine! 'Cause! What? No and sometimes Nice!" She says "nice" to Raymond and I when we are being mean to her.

To top all of this off, I get a call at work from my mom. We normally talk around 2pm, I call to check in with her and the kids. So this call seemed no different than any other ones.

"I am going to strangle your daughter!!"

Me, "What? Why?" (at this point I am already laughing)

My mom, "I am going to walk around Santa Ana and find the tallest tree and hang her from her feet." My mom used to say this to me when I was younger so I knew it had to be bad.

"What did she do?"

"She locked me out of the house!! All 3 kids (Roman, Olivia and Natalie) were in their high chairs. Olivia needed a diaper change so I brought her down. I ran to the garage to grap some buffalo wings from the freezer and when I tried to get back in, the door wouldn't open. Olivia had locked the door! I opened the garage door but knew there was no way to get back in since everything was locked, so I ran across the street to a neighbor's house. I am pounding on her door... no one is home! I go to David's (another neighbor) and ask him if I could use his phone."

Our neighbor David is busting up laughing, he knows Olivia well too.

You can hear the kids screaming their heads off, well except for Ollie.

My mom is panicking, she is frantically trying to dial my dad's work # and can't remember it and she keeps getting the wrong number. Finally she remembered it, tells my dad what is going on, my dad leaves work burning rubber to unlock the door for my mom. Roman and Natalie are screaming even louder!

My mom, "It was the longest 30 minutes of my life!!"

She walk in the door, Roman and Natalie are crying but relieved that they see an adult and of course Olivia is just sitting there with a little smirk on her face.... (sigh)... I can't wait until she is 13!!!!!!