Vivikins

Vivs, Vivster, Vivikin floor walker, Vivi Kay, Vivi, Vivienne Oh how we love this girl. 

1. What do you like most about yourself? 

Giving people their toys. 

2. What do you think your future job will be? 

Going on walks

3. What do you love to eat? 

Mac and Cheese

4. How do you like to spend your time? 

Play with somebody

5. What are you good at? 

Playing 

6. Who are your best friends and why do you like each other? 

Porter, because I like him so much. (She talks about Porter all the time, cousins are the best)

7. Who is someone you look up to? 

Jack

8. What makes you sad? 

When people hit me. 

9. What is your favorite outfit to wear? 

Minnie Mouse outfit 

10. What makes you really annoyed? 

Ladybugs (We get those awful Asian ladybugs and they annoy me too)

11. What makes you feel proud? 

When people be nice to me. 

12. What makes you happy? 

People play soccer with me. 

13. What do you do when you feel sad? 

Play with my teddy bear or cry on my bed. 

14. What's your favorite thing to do with Mom? 

Clean the dishes

This girl is becoming more independent and doesn't follow me around the house as much...which is sad but not sad at all if that makes any sense. 

15. What's your favorite thing to do with Dad? 

Wash the floor

16. What's your favorite thing to do with Mariah? 

Clean her bedroom (Mariah comes up with fun scenarios that Vivi can do with her toys, making playtime so much more magical.)

17. What's your favorite thing to do with Chet? 

Clean his bike 

18. What's your favorite thing to do with Austin? 

Clean his fan (Vivi likes to say that when she grows up she's going to marry Austin.)

19. What's your favorite thing to do with Eliza? 

Make her bed (Apparently I should be giving her way more cleaning assignments, I didn't realize she was such a fan.) 

Eliza and Vivi have so much fun together. 

20. What's your favorite thing to do with Asa? 

Play (If Vivi is playing with her toys and sees Asa approach she quickly throws her body over her toys so Asa can't take any of them. Someday they will play happily together.)

21. What do you want to be when you grow up? 

A tiger, Elsa, I want to be a girl that has long hair. 

22. What is your favorite color?

Purple and blue and also pink. 

While talking to her Dad: I'm a kitty and you call me "stupid cat". Not that she has heard that from anyone in our house...ahem. In my defense, they can be pretty stupid. 

She loves being a kitty or cheetah or tiger and she gets really into character. We have to reminder her that even if she's a cat, it's not ok to lick people. 

One day when I told Vivi she should ask Eliza if she could wear her dress she said, "She'll say no so let's not ask her." And that is how Vivi gets what she wants. Better to ask forgiveness than permission. Other times she feels really optimistic, "Let's ask him, he'll say yes!" Which makes it that much harder when the answer is no. 

First time she said a prayer by herself: "Dear Heavenly Father, thank thee for Jesus, please bless the cows and the pigs that snort and the elephants. In the name of Jesus Christ Amen." She'll make a great farmer one day, already praying for her livestock. 

"Mom this is my Book of Mornin', I love my Book of Mornin" Her Book of Mormon is actually a small New Testament, but she won't be convinced otherwise. 

For a while she called snoring "sneaking". "Mom, I was sneaking like this." 

There were a few days where Vivi's excuse to not go to bed was because "it will tangle my hand". I never figured out exactly what she meant by that. But it was worth a try to get out of bed. 

One day she brought me a bug and said, "Mom! Look at this baby bug! It said (said in a high voice) save me save me!" Good thing that bug had Vivi to rescue it. 

Vivi started pretending she was going to Africa. She wasn't really sure what she was going to do when she got there, but that never seemed important. 

One day I asked Vivs if she wanted to go upstairs with me and she replied, "Yeah but, I'm dying" in the most forlorn voice. She can be a little dramatic. 

For a while she had an imaginary friend named Strawberry that went on lots of adventures with her. She also would talk about Blueberry at times. And then we realized that Blueberry was our contractor Barry. It blew her mind when she realized that was his actual name. But he is her good friend. She loves to sneak up and "scare" him and Ethan and they do a good job of acting scared. 

She also has a friend in the mirror named Anna, our own little Anne of Green Gables. Her last imaginary friend is Lydia, the Hyde to her Jekyll. "Lydia doesn't try new foods and Lydia doesn't go to bed when her mom tells her too." Good thing Vivi doesn't do that. 

One day Aunt Heather asked Vivi, "What does Eliza say?" Vivi quickly responded with, "No Vivi no!" We all hear that quite frequently. 

One day I was complaining about all the flies in the house and she said, "I'm sorry mom, we'll get you a new house ok?" If only it worked that way. 

Vivi: Eliza! Get out out of the way! Me: That didn't sound very nice, can you say excuse me please? Vivi (in her sweetest voice): Excuse me please. (And then under her breath) Poopy pants. Which is the worst thing she could call a person; you know you've really disappointed her when she whips that one out. 

"Mom, I want my hair turned and turned and turned." Meaning she wants a french braid. 

She calls germs turtles. "I didn't brush my teeth but the turtles just fell off!"

After she had been running hard in the house: "Something's patting me in my body!" She was talking about her heartbeat. Probably the cutest way I've heard it described. 

One day we were talking about a miracle we had experienced as a family and she said, "That makes our hearts get big!"

One day she came to me and said, "Mom, my heart is attacking me!" 

I came downstairs to see how Tanner's painting project was going. All the kids were telling me what their assignments were and then Vivi proudly piped in with, "And I'm a horrible painter!" 

During our tea party with Grammie, Vivi was speaking in her best British accent: "More sugar and tea please." When I told her the tea was all gone she followed up with, "Just sugar then." 

After picking up Vivi she said, "We don't want Asa to find us." When I asked what happens if he finds us she fiercely declared, "We attack him!" Just a little sibling rivalry going on between those two. 

When she's really proud of herself she'll say, "I'm a good job girl!" 

Vivi struggles with picking on her face. But with the help of "princess gloves" and fun face stickers, she is looking much better. A lot of the older generation ask if she has chicken pox...I felt like I had to tell everyone that she wasn't contagious. 

Here she is sporting some of her favorite face stickers 

She still loves to be naked, especially if she can relax by the fire while doing so. 

We are trying to transition out of naps. Which means she can get real cranky around 4. If we leave her alone too long this is how we find her...and then she's up half the night. Fun times. 

She loves making people laugh

She is the master of funny faces  

I mean, come on...

Vivi wanted a "unikitty" cake and I was not prepared as far as decorations go. Tanner decided he would take over the decor...Let's just say he was humbled. The ears and horn are flat on the top of the cake, but his decor was all edible, I was going to use paper for the ears and horn. We had a good laugh and Vivi didn't seem to mind too much. She wanted a "marshmallow cake" so I did a s'mores one. It wasn't til later that she told me she wanted actual marshmallows all over her cake. Whoops. 

We celebrated her birthday early because Tanner's Mondays are really long and it was a good thing we did because Vivi was sick all day on her birthday. She slept on the couch most of the day, sweet thing. She ended up having an ear infection and started feeling better after she got some medicine. 

The birthday girl

We are so grateful to have Vivi in our family. She is the comedic relief and either leaves us laughing or shaking our heads in disbelief, but that is why we love her. She has an imagination like no other, she loves to be with her family and we're excited to watch her learn and grow this year.