Olivia is the craziest baby right now! Everytime we turn around, she's found some new trouble to get into. Here, she's crawled into the pantry and is trying to get herself a soda.
On this particularly hot day, she snuck into her closet and wanted to unpack all of her and Henry's diapers. Don't you love that little naked back!
Since she has learned to feed herself, she is employing those skills everyday! She loves picking small things up and putting them straight in her mouth. She loves eating hair and fuzz from stuffed animals, and dirt and removing doorstops and eating those. She is good at sharing though; she's pictured here offering a bite of the piece of grass she found.
With her getting into trouble all the time, it became very difficult to get anything else done, especially take care of Henry! So we invested in a playpen, which we affectionately refer to as the Baby Cage. She loves crawling in and out, and doesn't mind it too much when we lock her in.
Olivia loves stuffed animals! We realized we hadn't posed her with her dog in a while, and she quickly attacked it with kisses.
She's always quick to share. Would you like to kiss the puppy?
And like all babies, she's obsessed with tags.
She still obsessively rubs her eyes when she is tired, it's cute.
She's also learned to clap, which she does seemingly randomly. She claps when she wants to be picked up from her crib, when she bonks her head, or when she's in trouble for yet again trying to unplug the computer. The only time she doesn't clap, is when you want her to.
For Father's Day, Bob bought Olivia a present (he got confused), a six-foot tall bear. Olivia loves attacking it with hugs and kisses and crawling all over it.
The bear is so big, you can't even see it all here!
We've been enjoying the hot days of summer! Sometimes we eat popsicles to cool down.
Or we play with Baby Henry to pass the time.
Don't forget to give the dog a kisss!
We recently went to the zoo with the whole family. Olivia liked the jaguars, giraffes, gorillas, but most of all she liked watching the children. Fascinating!
She went to the doctor last week for her 9-month checkup, and she's doing great! She weighs 24 pounds (>95%), and is 29.5" long (95%). She's started eating dairy products. She loves yogurt and ate so much cheese in one sitting that she was constipated! (We learned our lesson on that one.)
Olivia has such a great and fun personality. She is a ton of work, but we wouldn't have it any other way!
