Olivia - 4 Years Old!

Olivia's 4 year questionaire:

What is your favorite color?  Rainbow

What is your favorite toy?  My tigers Tigressa & Roary

What is your favorite fruit?  Watermelon

What is your favorite TV show?  Jake & the Neverland Pirates

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?  Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches

What is your favorite outfit?  The dress Emma Grace gave me with the big bow

What is your favorite game?  Hungry, Hungry Hippos

What is your favorite thing to do?  Play hide and seek with mommy

What is your favorite animal?  Lion

What is your favorite song?  Get Up & Go Go (Fresh Beat Band)

What is your favorite book?  All of my barbie books

Who is your best friend?  Alyssa

What is your favorite cereal?  Maple Crunch

What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Take my puppies for a walk

What is your favorite drink?  Juice

What is your favorite holiday?  Valentine's Day

What do you like to take to bed with you at night?  My tigers

What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?  Pancakes

What is your favorite dinner? Pepperoni pizza

What do you want to be when you grow up?  A mother who has so many kid & lives in a big house

 

A few other things about Olivia at 4 years old:

She still only wants to wear dresses

She loves animals, especially her dogs (she calls them puppies)

She loves being a big sister

She is very good at entertaining herself and can play in her room for hours

She loves barbies

She loves watching movies with popcorn

She loves going to shows

She loves rides  (amusement parks)

She loves the beach

She loves dessert

 

 Personality wise, Olivia is still more on the serious side, although she can be quite silly at times. 

She has a great imagination.  When she plays, she really plays.  

She loves playing vet, or she'll have her barbies go to school or dance.  She doesn't just get stuff out, she actually has a plan for the stuff she wants to play with.  Which makes it difficult for her to play with multiple kids of her age at the same time because they are generally more rambunctious and less structured than her and usually grab the stuff she already has a plan for.  She does much better playing with older kids or one on one.

At her 4 year appointment, her pediatrician was shocked by her personality.  He said she had a mature type of sass to her that most kids her age don't quite have yet.  He said it was as if she was an older girl trapped in a 4 year old's body.  I've always felt she a little more serious and mature than most kids her age.

At a recent Monkey Joe's birthday party, while all the other kids were running around going crazy, Olivia found the empty bounce house made for kids 3 and under that has the animals inside and went in there and started making up dances and songs using the blow up animals in there as props.  Definitely isn't something most 3 year old's do!

She loves music.  She loves dancing.  She really loves just about any activity she tries.  She's very open to trying new things.  The other week she said she wanted to start doing soccer and karate that is offered at school.  I would love for her to do every activity she wants to try but the budget only allows for so much so I told her if she wanted to do that instead of dance when dance was over we'd sign her up, but then she said she was just kidding, she didn't want to do soccer and karate, she just wanted to dance!  I love that she loves dance, but we will still continue to have her try different things as well.

Happy 4th Birthday Olivia!  We are so lucky to have you and we love you so much!