A little play time with Dada.


A little reading time with Mama.

A little quiet (rare) time strapped down in front of her Baby Einstein Old MacDonald Farm video. Honestly, this doesn't happen much. The AAP recommends that kids under 2 should not watch any tv. But Olivia was feeling so bad with her bad cold, that this seemed to cheer her up a little. Believe me, she doesn't sit still for this when she is feeling well. I love her little mucklucks.
Here she is having a little more energy one day, but still sick, and we put on her new sneakers from Aunty Carol. They are now the perfect fit.

Olivia is walking with a little help from her toy.

Olivia just turned 10 months old this week and then today, look at what she started doing! Look out world.

Here are some stills of our new little walker on the go and enjoying it all!

And then she gets tired of the toy walker and wants one us to walk her around more.

This is a little late, but, here are some May pictures.

I am a little behind posting some of these pictures. The ones below are from May. Olivia has already changed quite a bit from then! These I call cute baby bed head!

This day Olivia was excited about the mirrors.

Here is a very nice day at the park, again, in May.

And this is the new baby gate we put up at the top of the stairs. No, we still don't have any railings to speak of. We still can't decide what we want there. So, yes, this is a really long baby gate. Twelve feet to be exact. We got it up just in time. Olivia has been very interested in those long stairs, and still is.

And today I was on the phone with tech support for our automated espresso machine - which as a side note, we use the heck out of every morning and it has more than paid for itself, AND I drink decaf AND I love the thing - back to original story - and I turn around and see that Olivia has pulled herself up to Maddie's kitty bed on the chair and is trying to get Maddie. AND! Maddie is not leaving which she normally does - RUN MADDIE, RUN! I couldn't believe it. So I go "redirect" little Olivia but she goes back 2 or 3 more times while I am wrist deep in coffee grounds. Check out her tshirt, it has my coffee handprint on the front. So I figure she is really enjoying this game and Maddie doesn't seem to mind so I whip out the video cam and can't believe I got a little on film. By the way, Olivia is usually not so "gentle" when it comes to the kitties yet. She really pats them and grabs a hand full of fur but she is learning fast! I am so proud of her. And the kitties adore her, albeit from afar. :-)

So Olivia really, really likes her Yo Baby yogurt! She ate the whole thing which is a lot for her! She just doesn't eat that much in one sitting. Yo Baby does have sugar and tastes more like a pudding than a yogurt so it is quite yum yum. Check out this video we did for her Dada who was away for the whole week in Boston for training.

Latest on Olivia

I know a little about developmental milestones for babies Olivia's age so when she does something new, which seems to be almost every day, I get excited. And thought I'd let you know what shes been up to this past week.
-she started pointing! just one morning rolled over and started pointing and hasn't stopped since.
-she started signing for "milk"; it does tend to be a sign she does for a lot of things too, but when she is having milk she does the sign and she understands when I do the sign
-she is putting things into things for example her egg rattles are going back into the mixing bowls now and then she hands them to me; she is also trying to stack her ring stack
-she loves to find things I hide in her shirt or under a blanket or under my pants leg and then hands it back to me to hide it again
-oh, and did I tell you she has started sitting up and standing up in her crib at night instead of sleeping? That has been an interesting occurrence for me, some nights way too many times. She tends to think it is funny.
I think there is one or two more I wanted to post here but can't recall at the moment. Here is a little video of her standing and signing at the same time.