Little Strawberry Dress, Oil on Linen,40x50cm, 2014

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While on vacation I began to think that Olivia has grown so much mentally that she might be able to begin sitting for me for longer periods of time like she did before she began to sit up or walk.  We were back from the States only a couple of days when I put her on the bed with an unopened box of toothpaste.  It took her long enough to open that box that I was able to paint her, and when she stood up, she knew what "sit down" meant and humored my requests.  Didn't take very long, this one.  Just long enough.