{4 Sisters}

Olivia has apparently reached the stage where she has immaginary friends, or in this case, imaginary sisters. For awhile now she has told me things about her sister, Alia. "My sister Alia does this or doesn't do that, etc."

However, she recently informed me that she has FOUR sisters.  Some of them live in Virginia. Some of them live in a different Virginia (West Virginia, I suppose?) and some live in California.

I asked her what the names of all her sisters are.... and are you ready?
1. ALIA
2. SILKY
3. DINKA
4. NINA

I got the giggles so bad and had to keep asking her to repeat the list over and over because I just didn't want to forget anyone, especially Dinka.

{BEE Grateful (for Priceless Moments)}

I hope I can do this justice and I so wish I had been holding a video camera to capture this precious moment.
Last week, as I was leaving for work, Olivia came upstairs to show me her dress up costume. She and our babysitter Kathryn were having lots of fun getting dressed up like princesses. I suddenly remembered that I had purchased a bee costume for her at CVS before Halloween. They had all their costumes on a ridiculous sale and I couldn't pass up the darling bee costume. I figured it would be a nice addition to her dress up box and was waiting for the right time to give it to her.

As I pulled it out of the sack and Olivia saw if for the first time, she exclaimed (and enunciated each word).
"OH. MY. GOSH!  IS THAT FOR ME? OH MOMMY! THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH! IT IS BE-U-TIFUL! I LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!"

She stripped off her princess dress in record time so that she could don the bee costume.  Her reaction was so much more than I could have ever hoped for.

{Master Manipulator}

A couple of nights ago, Olivia had an unfortunate accident. She fell down our (wooden) stairs! Once I got her calmed down, I had her point to which stair she had fallen from. Sadly, she took me to the top of the staircase!  It's amazing to me how resilient little kids are. A little motrin, pink blanket and some TLC and she was as good as new.

A little while later, however, when it was time for bed, she looked at me, held her head in her hand and said, "I can't go to bed, Mommy. My brain is still broken."

{Tic Tac Awesome}

Yesterday when I picked up Olivia from school, she had a darling bag of treats care of the twins who celebrated their birthdays in class yesterday.  One of the fun treats was a wooden tic tac toe game, pink and purple with flower & heart pieces (so girl - so Olivia).  Since we have about 25 minutes to kill before we pick up Will, I told her we could play a few rounds.

For the first game, I let her go first, and then the next game she let me go first.  I placed my piece on the board and she said, "I'm going to go here right next to you. Because you're awesome."

{Civic Duty}

Overheard this morning:

"Are you going to go voting with us today, Olivia?"
"Yeah."
"It's boring." (Totally trying to discourage Olivia from honing in on his time with Daddy.)
"I like it."
"You don't even know what voting is."
"Well, I still like it."

{Super Cute Transformer}

Yesterday I took Will and Olivia to the mall to have their pictures taken in their Halloween costumes.  Will is going as Optimus Prime & Olivia is the purple butterfly from PBK.

I mistakingly parked further away than necessary, so we had to march through most of our huge mall just to get to Picture People. Several people stopped to compliment or comment on the kids' costumes & I have to admit they did both look pretty darn cute.  As we were speed walking through the mall, Will turned to me and said exasperated, "Mom, everyone keeps telling me how super cute I look in my costume."

{Overheard at lunch today}

Will loves hot sauce. Yep, he's four and loves hot sauce.  Today for lunch he was enjoying a quesadilla that he meticulously dipped into a mixture of mustard and hot sauce (so NOT my son when it comes to condiments, but I'm so happy he has an adventurous pallet in at least one area.)

Olivia, who was feasting on a flower-shaped peanut butter & honey sandwich, inquired, "Will, why do you like mustard and hot sauce so much?"

Will answered without hesitation and with much enthusiasm, "Because I'm super awesome!"