1. Olivia LOVES to day dream, this occurs a number of times on a daily basis.
As she dreams she races back and forth between between the windows and couch, this activity has been know to go on for over an hour stretch. If you want her attention you almost have to jump in her path, because repeatedly calling her name has no effect, she definitely enters her own little world. When I do get her attention, I will sometimes hear her say "Mom can I please finish this dream." or "Mom can I dream for 5 more minutes."
2. Olivia does not like things to be thrown away, she is a saver on the verge of a hoarder. I have learned that it is better to not ask Olivia to thrown anything in the trash for me, because not only will that item not make it into the trash, but a few other items will be taken out of the trash. Olivia thinks everything should be saved, strawberry stems, scrap paper, rotten food, broken things, pretty much everything. To her credit when I explain to her that that certain item should not be saved she immediately comes up with an explanation of what she plan to do with it..."I'm going to use that in a concoction, I'm going to make an art project with it..."
3. Olivia loves cook books, they really bring her alot of joy. She frequently asks us to get some down for her to look through.
For a while, every night at bedtime she would ask to look through cookbooks with us instead of read stories and would even request that she sleep with one in her bed. That habbit was quickly stopped when we realized she wanted to keep the cook book in bed so she could try to look at it in the dark.
