Olivia's Thoughts....

I love four year olds and the way they think, especially this little four year old!  She is way to observant, she is the Princess of this crew, she is the Lil' Mother of her brothers, she is a little "spit fire" at times, and as sweet as they come at other times.  Our Olivia is talented and way to smart for her own good! 

One thing I enjoy about four years olds is watching them try and figure out life and what it has in store for them and what it all means.  Her preschool teacher commented the other day that she is for sure the "Sparkle" in her preschool class, I could only imagine what that means!

She loves school, she loves to dance (although I have to stay and watch her!), and she loves going to Primary.  Her Primary teacher this year is my sister's mother-in-law.  Sister Joan made all of the kids scripture bags to hold their scriptures in.  That whole first week her scripture bag went everywhere with us, it went to dancing, rides in the car, and grocery shopping!  I feel so fortunate that there are such great teachers in her life right now that will help guide her and help her have positive moment that will help her in the future.

~The other day we were talking about dancing and I told her about one of her dance teachers and how she had 8 kids and told them all of their names to see if she could decide what they all had in common.  I could tell she was taking it all in because she had that "thinking" look on.  Her response was, "she must of had a big car!"  What the???!!! 

~One morning Carson and I were both in the kitchen getting things ready for the day and Payton was in there doing his usual things...making a mess!  Olivia walks in and say so matter of fact, "oh, child of God!"  I said to her, who is a Child of God?  She responded, "Payton, he is making a horrible mess!" Really we do teach her that she is a Child of God in a good way.  It was a quick reminder to me that she tries so hard to talk big, even if it makes no sense at all!

~A couple of days ago Olivia very concerned asked me if there were "Handy-cats" in the road and why.  I confused asked her "Handy-cats"?  She said yes, "you know where you park."  Poor girl, I am not sure what she was thinking was happening to those cats, but I quickly explained to her that it is "handicap" and what that means.  We both giggled and then she was on her way!

Over the Christmas brake we were visiting my Simmons side and my cousin Jenny was there visiting from going to school in Colorado.  She had the cutest feather extension in her hair, I loved it.  I thought for sure it would be forever until it came to Utah.  Well a couple of weeks later there was advertising her in town at a local beauty store that was doing it and it was cheap!  At first I thought colors would be fun, but then I decided that I wanted a more subtle look.  So Olivia got two that are similar shades of her hair and I got two that I similar shades to my hair.  It is kinda fun, Olivia loves it!  She really would like her Nana or Aunt Molly to do it as well, she even explained very well had to drive there.....(It the photo above you can see one of her feathers)

We sure do love our Eia Beans and the joy she brings to our home!