"This is Olivia. She is good at lots of things. She is very good at wearing people out."

Ian Falconer, the author of this adorable book must know Lia personally. Olivia is jumping, hopping, running through the pages of this book. A lively and high-energy girl (lets ignore that she's a pig) who knows 40 very loud songs! (Sounds extremely familiar). And on rainy days she likes to go to the museum.

Guess where we took our little girl last time it rained? Right!

Lia in front of the 'Landesmuseum Hannover'. We spent a day at the museum. And it was not at all boring! There was lots of space for jumping, hopping, and running around! There were fish, and dinosaurs, apes, and art to admire.

Animals, dead and alive, to look at with Daddy and Ben,

and a nice game to play with mom. We were given a detail of a picture by Sandro Botticelli, an angel holding a white lilly, and had to find the original painting. Exciting and eerie to run around the museum in search of angel.



When Olivia gets home from her day at the museum, she is reproducing a piece of art by Jackson Pollock on the walls of her home. I half expected to find Botticelli angels on our walls, too, but if Lia is as artistically talented as Olivia, I somehow prefer our walls to stay white. And there's enough talent to admire in Lia's performance of her 40 very loud and very invented songs.