My three-year-old granddaughter, Alana is quite the observer! I didn't realize how much she learned from me until I was watching her in my backyard last Summer.  This particular afternoon had been a busy one! I had several showings with different clients and many phone calls.

As we were both enjoying the warmth and she was "driving" her ride-on car (actually too small for her but she loves it!), I noticed she was talking on her imaginary cell phone. I could here her say, "Yes, that's right", "let me check on that", and "fabulous" in her own little high-pitched toddler way. At one point, she stopped and said, "We're Here!" and proceeded to "get out" of her car.

The cincher in this story is when she opened the imaginary back door to her car and lugged out her imaginary briefcase. She pulled up the imaginary handle and began pulling it around the pool. Then she pulled out her imaginary Ibox key, punched the imaginary keypad and opened the imaginary lockbox.

I never realized how many details she picked up on!