Guest Blogger Margaret Visits Again

K - It's me, guest blogger, Margaret again!

I visited Olivia over Halloween, and saw her as a Lion - one that
would roar for you.

What else happened?

Well, I went to her daycare to watch her, and she came to me right
away, and started to walk out with me, when I told her that I was
actually there for circle time. Her mood completely changed, and she
was silent. Through the entire circle time. Her teacher encouraged
her to get up and sing and dance, but she sat in my lap, turned her
head and wouldn't participate. Then she said something to O in
Chinese. I didn't understand what she said, but Olivia nodded her head
and finally stood up. The teacher pulled out flashcards to quiz her
on. For some reason, Olivia loves flashcards. She was able to
identify 57 of them which was something like 80% of the cards.

Olivia loves to go to the park. She loves to sing and dance.

Another day, we picked her up and woke her in the middle of a nap. She
was silent the entire time in the car, and seemed about to cry many
times. Finally, she said --- "I don't WANT to be grumpy!!! ---"

I purchased some US children's songs from her, as I know she is headed
to preschool next year, and I thought it might help her learn American
songs along with her Chinese songs. On her last day, we played a game
where I would sing "If you're happy and you know it --- " and Olivia
would do whatever I told her to do --- "clap your hands, pretend to
cry, tap your head, make a funny face, laugh out loud" Then I started
to have fun - "wrinkle your nose" (she used her fingers to move her
nose), "blink your eyes", the best was "speak chinese" where she came
up with Chinese phrases to say.

Her birthday was a lot of fun. She had a lot of friends over, and we
had pizza and cake, and she got a lot of gifts. She was still opening
one gift per day when I left.