Olivia is 3 1/4 Years Old

Time is flying!  It's getting difficult to remember when I have to do an update on each child...

Olivia is now 3 1/4 years old.  She continues to grow, both physically and in personality.

She weighs 33.8lb and is 40.5" tall.  She wears size 4 or 5 clothes and size 9.5 shoes.

She can act like a older preschooler, but she can also act like a young preschooler :).  She really plays the baby in the family role quite well.  You can tell she is used to being around older kids because she can play alongside them really well, but she can also be really whiny and babyish.  I really see this when we are out in public and she doesn't want to walk anymore.  Even if my hands are full of bags/bins/clothes etc, she will stop walking and will refuse to continue unless I pick her up.  I've really buckled down on this and I refuse to pick her up.

Olivia is behind where her siblings were academically, but I know that's okay and everyone catches up at one point.  There are probably only a handful of letters she could recognize.  She knows her name begins with an "O", but that's about it.  We've worked on spelling her name a couple times, but that's about it.  I really need to be more intentional about sitting down and working with her on it.

She can sing the ABCs up until the letter P, and then starts all over again.

Olivia loves having (store-bought) waffles for breakfast.

Her favourite thing to have for lunch is a slice of bread with chocolate icing and hagelslaac.

She loves oranges, candies, and chips.

Olivia's favourite thing to have for dinner is french fries.

She prefers to watch YouTube videos on the iPad over watching cartoons/movies.

She loves riding her bike at the greenhouses or on Auntie Candice's old scooter in the backyard.

Olivia still idolizes Kayla.  You can always hear her trying to get Kayla's attention to show her something she's done.  She enjoys sharing a bedroom with Kayla.

Nathan is definitely Olivia's protector and comforter.  If he is not pestering her, then he is giving her hugs and kisses and sticking up for her.

She is definitely left-handed when it comes to printing/colouring.  It will be interesting to see if she is left-handed for sports.

Olivia doesn't naturally say the 's' in s-blend words (ex. 'school' is 'cool'), but when you encourage her to correct herself ("What is cool?  Do you mean sssss-chool?), she corrects herself effortlessly.  She can now say "Nathan" instead of "Mathan".

Her hair curls the nicest when it is dirty and has been wet and dried.