Olivia is 3.................Olivia is my very lovely granddaughter who can charm anyone. Olivia is a little girl who can snatch a chocolate chip from my drawer in less than a second or snuggle in your arms and giggle about a story you just read to her. She is our free entertainment.Today she was here on the farm. She gave me one of those moments that I would have liked to capture with photos for you to see..... but it was a moment for me, that will stay imprinted forever.
Olivia was playing in the sandbox while I was mowing nearby. I keep one eye on Olivia at all times..........if you have met her , you know why . I had showed her the 4 apples growing on our very young apple tree a few weeks ago. I knew that she really wanted one but I had told her we should wait until they were red to eat them. I thought she had forgotten about the apples but later I saw her move from the sandbox to under the tree..........I saw her looking up in the apple tree at the 4 apples that hung high in the tree. She smiled at me and waved..... She jumped as high as a 3 year old can jump, but only reached the green leaves. She headed back to the sandbox but I knew she hadn't really given up on getting an apple.
I turned the corner to see her dragging her little chair under the tree.....just below the apple. She smiled at me and waved and climbed up on the chair ... she reached as high as she could ...almost tipped , but she couldn't reach the apple. Then she found a stick...climbed back on the chair and started to swing at the lovely apple hanging just out of the reach of the stick....that was being held by her skinny little arm..... She was standing on her tiptoes ..on the chair. I saw determination on her face but she got down and walked back to the sandbox. This time when I turned the corner, Olivia was dragging an even bigger chair........she smile and waved......she pulled and tugged until she had the chair just where she wanted it...climbed up....climbed down...got her stick...climbed up and began to swing it at the apple hanging in the tree...just out of her reach. I wanted to run and get the camera but didn't want to miss the moment. She gave a big sigh.......gave me her silly little grin and proceded to get just a little bit higher. I was then thinking I should put a stop to her little apple picking party when she climbed on the arm of the chair she had dragged under the apple tree.............she balanced herself with the stick in her right hand and reached up with her left handto find that she could reach it !! She looked at me one last time and plucked the apple from the branch....I heard her little voice "I got it Grandma" as the chair tipped and Olivia....the chair.... and the precious apple tumbled over. Olivia rolled in the grass........popped right up and proudly displayed her apple to me........"I picked a red apple for you Grandma..... aren't you proud of me?" it was one of those moments where your heart just kind of grabs you from the inside. "I am so proud of you Olivia" , I replied, "You are very smart".
We sat down in the grass under the apple tree........we took turns taking bites out of the apple....we talked about everything we could make with apples........we talked about how a tree grows from the tiny little seeds inside.....we talked about God and all the cool things He made....it was one of those moments I think I missed with my own kids because I would have wanted the lawn mowed first.....that is what is so great about being a Grandma...........I just finished mowing later.
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