Highchair Time!

Here are some recent pics of Olivia and her start with solid foods!


(This was her first time with rice cereal! She looks a little out of it!!)
This one, I think she's saying, "Who... me??"

I realized when trying to decide which pics to post, that I really need to take more fun pictures of her with food on her face :) What can I say?! We're pretty clean! AND - it's challenging to feed her and take pics!

We started rice cereal about a month or so ago. So far, we've tried rice and oatmeal cereal, sweet potatoes, carrots, peas, bananas, and applesauce. She hasn't had much of an appetite the past week (I'm guessing that we might be seeing a tooth soon!!) but tonight we had sweet potatoes and some banana for dessert and she looovveed it!

I can't believe my girl is SO big! Where have the past 6 months gone!?

Side note - at her 6 month check-up last week, Olivia weighed 17 pounds and was 27.5 inches tall! (She's off the chart in height .. in the 102nd percentile! and close to the 55th percentile for weight.)

More Crawling Practice!

"Oh, hi Mommy... You wanna see my new tricks again??"

"Here I go!" "Are you ready?"

"Woaaahh, I'm a bit wobbly!"

"That was close!!"

"Here I go again!" "Are you getting this on film??"

"Not too sure where to go from here!?"

"That's it for now!"

"Come play :)"

"What's in here?" "I better look quick - I usually don't sit up too long before I tip!"

TV ..

She was bouncin'.. playin'.. oblivious that the TV was directly behind her. It wasn't even possible for her to see the TV (or so I thought!!) Not two seconds after I turned it on, this happened :
She's a little stinker...

No TV for Olivia = No TV for Mom. Duh!

Oh - and just FYI - it was even on MUTE.. and she still wanted to watch! Guess I'll wait 'til nap time :)

She's A Rockin!

Olivia is up on her hands and knees... rocking back and forth!! My baby, my tiny baby.. she's getting so big... Wow - almost 6 months old?! I remember when she started smiling, grabbing, reaching, giggling, rolling... All these 'firsts' and she's not quite half a year old yet. These snapshots in my mind are wonderful - I can't journal enough to save all the memories and milestones!

Almost crawling!!? I can't hardly believe it! For now, we are enjoying watching her learn this new skill of rocking. I hope it lasts a while. I'm don't know if I'm ready to chase her around everywhere - but once she starts something, she goes all for it!

She's so proud of herself as she scoots all around to grab a toy. Rolling, scooting, and now rocking! And, oh, the sweet little beaming smile as she realizes how proud of her we are. Even this small, she knows. She's gonna be a little performer.. And it makes my heart melt..

Lazy Day

Today we spent lots of time playing on the floor with the shape puzzle bucket...
The lid is her favorite!

She is scooting all over the floor!


This cute face cracks me up! Mom, really? More pictures?

I was laughing as I posted these pics! She's one busy girl with all her activity centers - floor mat with hanging toys, bouncing jumparoo, etc! As you can see in the background, we installed the safety fence around the stairs.. Hard to believe that she's soon to be full out crawling. She worked really hard to scoot over and knock down the tower of shapes I built!