Snow Day

Yesterday Olivia's daycare was closed due to the weather so I got to spend the day at home with her. We had fun playing all day. Sean had been out of town so he didn't get to stay home with us. It would have been nice to have all of us at home but it didn't work out that way unfortunately. I did take Olivia out in the snow for about 20 minutes in the morning. I don't really have any snow clothes or boots for her since it never snows here so I tried to bundle her up as best as I could. She doesn't have any gloves so I didn't want to keep her outside too long. She was fine until we went back in the house and you know that feeling you get when your hands are really cold and they start to thaw out - well she learned about that once we were back in the house. She ran into my room and curled up on a pillow on the floor yelling "I"m freezing!!". It was really funny. I felt bad because she was crying but I knew she was ok. It took about 10 minutes for her to thaw out.

I also thought that it would be a good day to try wearing "big girl" pants again so I showed her the new princess underpants I had bought a couple of weeks ago. She was really excited and had to try them all on - all 20 pairs of them! I tried to explain to her that she can't pee in them like a pull up and that she needed to tell me when she needed to go potty. It didn't go so well. She peed on the floor three times. She did actually go to her potty once by herself though which was good. When we got home again tonight I thought I would try again because she found a clean pair and wanted to wear them. I explained it to her again but she peed on the floor again. It's very frustrating. She's very smart and picks up things very quickly so I thought she would pick up on this quicker than she has. I started about 6 months ago and I don't feel we've gotten very far. She needs to be completely trained before June to move up to the next class in her daycare so I have my work cut out for me.