7 Months Old ... A Month Ago

Way back on July 30, Olivia turned 7 months old, and I have the pictures to prove it!

She's had milestones in leap and bounds lately.

Tuesday (August 16) she got her first tooth! You can still hardly see it, but you can certainly feel it. It has caused her all kinds of discomfort. She's waking a lot at night, and fussy during the day. However, we have discovered that ice Popsicles work wonders.

She's been pulling up for a while, but now she's learned that she can push most things she's standing on to get to new places. Activity tables, walkers, chairs, toy boxes ...

And she's finally (finally!) started crawling. She crawled for the first time almost 2 months ago. Then she got bronchitis and was sick for almost 4 weeks and didn't crawl once in that time. Wednesday, with some help from Poppy (my father), she decided to master it. She still prefers to cruise around on furniture, but if she has to crawl to get where she's going, she will ;-)

And last but not least, she's waived a couple of times. She doesn't have it mastered, and she mostly just gets a very serious look on her face and moves her fingers. Yet, she has actually gotten her arm in on the action and really waived twice now. Both times at Poppy, who I've decided is her favorite person in the world. Humph.

iPhone Update

My family, just hanging out ♥

Olivia learned to pull herself up in her crib. Time to lower that mattress!

She had some bronchitis and had to use a Nebulizer for a couple of weeks. Poor baby :-(

Toilet Paper fun in the mornings!

Music videos on the laptop will make any sick baby feel better.

Someone learned how to open the cabinets and ... make a mess.

Post bath time cuddles.

First pony tail!

Holding her own bottle for some thirst quenching water. It's hot in Texas!

Lost puppy, who is now home, but sure liked Olivia.

4th of July

We had a wonderful 4th of July weekend.

Sunday we went to a friend's house to swim ... Olivia's favorite, of course.

Monday, we stayed up and played around the house. Not Olivia's favorite, but she's easy to distract ;-)

Hopefully next year there won't be a drought and we can take her to some fireworks!

6 Months Old!

I go to bed every night wondering if I enjoyed every possible moment and fully appreciated that day with my daughter. I understand what people mean when they say, "my heart is full." It's a literal expression for how your chest feels when your heart is so filled with pride and love.

It seems like just a couple weeks ago that we were getting the house ready for the unknown, for "baby" generic. And now I have a 6 month old so full of personality, I cannot imagine my life without her.

June 30, 2011 Olivia was 21 pounds and 4 ounces, 26 inches long, and 6 months old!

Days of Our Lives - iPhone Edition

I've seen several people doing iPhone blog updates ... kind of like a week in review via pictures from their phones. I must be a horrible pictures taker, because I don't have enough pictures to do that weekly, but here's a recap from the last month or so?

Getting your feet in your mouth could be a full time job.

 Olivia was rolling through the room and come up and instead of seeing the ceiling, saw the underside of the coffee table. That's 30 minutes of entertainment right there, folks.

I can't decide if rolling over regularly is a good thing or a bad thing. She sure loves it, but she wants to sleep on her side. Great, except that usually ends in her rolling onto her back and waking herself up. It sure is sweet looking, though :-)

 Olivia celebrated her first Father's Day.

 She looooves her new swing.

 Dressing room fun (I clearly forgot to brush her hair that day ...).

 She had so much fun trying on clothes, she wanted to go shopping again right away.

 As of yesterday, she's in her big girl car seat. She outgrows the infant seat at 30", and I don't think she's quite there, but she's big enough it was getting a little silly. She took to the new seat right away.


These next two pictures obviously aren't from my iPhone, but worth sharing non the less! I finally got a new car! After three months of shopping I found a Honda Accord. My payment went down over $100 a month. In fact, it's the cheapest car payment I've had since I was 16. That alone is awesome, but better yet ... the Accord will get 23ish mpg. That beats the heck out of the FX's 12 mpg!

(And it has the all important sun roof ;-)