Olivia: 4 years old

It's such a strange feeling. On the one hand, it seems like it can't possibly have been that long ago that she was born, but on the other hand she's already seemed four to me for a while. Looking back at pictures of her from a year ago, you can see a huge difference. When she was newly three, she still had something that looked "baby-like" about her face. She's grown a few inches and stretched out this past year and now really looks like a "kid" instead of a toddler. Here's a little bit about Olivia these days:

-She is very smart, which we already knew of course. ;) She knows all her letters and can write many of them legibly. She writes her name by herself very well.

-She vacillates between being very emotional and cranky to being very sweet and loving - from being logical and mature to being irrational and immature. She could be growling at me one second and telling me she loves me to pieces and smieces the next minute.

-She's really enjoying preschool this year. She has a very nice teacher and according to her teacher, does very well in school.

-Even though her little sister drives her crazy sometimes, she is very sweet with her and protective of her.

-She is learning more Japanese every day.

-She has an amazing memory and imagination. 

-She doesn't like to have her picture taken most of the time, which is why I have pretty much no pictures of her from her own birthday party. Not worth the fight.