Olivia forward motion

All Tricks, No Treats

Today I was a good girl for mommy and daddy.  I like to show them my new tricks.  I am becoming quite a daredevil.  Mommy soon thinks the bouncy seat will have to be put away because I like to reach out of it and today I almost got stuck sideways and half falling out.  I can go from sitting to my tummy.  I sit in my bathtub (picture coming soon- hard for mommy to take while bathing me).  I sit while mommy blow dries my hair.  I ate 3 Puffs after dinner today and drank lots of sips of water from the sippy cup tonight.  I surprised mommy the most tonight when I started scooting forward before bath time.  Each night we have sing and swing time, story time, then play time on the floor (rolling, sitting, stretches, tummy time) and then my bath.  During play time I scooted forward to reach a book and then to reach my piano.  Mommy was so proud of me.  She didn't want to disturb me and take my picture and just let me play.  I also got a special present yesterday for the upcoming holiday season- Thank you Santa. 

Showing off for daddy

See-food

Happy girl

My Christmas Stocking =)

Changing

Not only are the leaves starting to change but so is Olivia.  She is doing new things every day.  Today she did more transitions from sitting to her tummy.  Of course when I wanted to get some pictures she wouldn't do it.  Also today our neighbor Kristy came over to babysit for awhile so I could go to my faculty meeting at school.  Kristy and Olivia did great! They were both happy campers when I got home!

Funny faces in the exersaucer

Check out my John Deer tractor outfit!

Probably the best tree in our backyard

Tried to get a night time shot while she was playing with her doggy

Kristy and Olivia!

Olivia's 1st shopping cart ride

Columbus Day

YAY! Happy Columbus Day.  Today was an extras bonus day...well almost of family time...will explain later.  This morning Brendon got up and went hunting.  Olivia slept until 7:45 a.m.  Wahoo! By 9:00 a.m. I had a load of laundry in the dryer, Olivia fed, Jake fed, and myself fed.  Olivia has started transitioning from a sitting position to her tummy.  Yesterday she did it a bunch of times but today she needed some help to get her legs the right way.  While Olivia snoozed this morning I got some other housework done.  It feels good to have a somewhat clean house! After lunch today we went shopping.  We took Olivia to Target to get some diapers.  We let her ride in the shopping cart and used the shopping cart cover.  Little did we know we had it the wrong way.  I had the directions in the diaper bag but didn't want to look like an idiot using it.  Oh well we will get it right next time.  She did great in the cart.  We brought some toys so she could play but she just liked looking around.  We then went to Dick's Sporting Goods for some toys for daddy.  Then Brendon got the call of doom and he had to go into work tonight.  No one was happy about that... So hopefully he will get some extra time off later this week!  Olivia ate like a champ today and was talking up a storm this afternoon.  She did not want to nap after the shopping trip so it was a LONG afternoon. But it was fun!

Sitting- look at my cute pot belly!

Starting the transition

A little bit more.... and she quit after this stage today.

1st time in the shopping cart at Target

All the stuff in the cart is for me!!

My First Pumpkin Patch

Today I had so much fun.  Mommy woke me up and fed me and we played.  Then mommy left and went shopping with Karson's mommy.  Mommy was there when I woke up from my morning nap. We played at ate and I watched football with daddy.  YAY the Bills won again.  I of course slept through most of the 2nd half and watched the last few minutes.  Then we ate dinner and went to Corn Dawgs.  We just went to the pumpkin patch and walked around since I am too little for most of the activities.  It was very bumpy in my stroller.  I did not want to smile at all when I was there.  I think I was a bit nervous with all the bumpiness of the stroller, but mommy and daddy took my picture anyways!

XOXO

Olivia

The faux farm building

Looking at the goats

Daddy and I

Daddy and I on the straw

Pumpkin House

Daddy and I in front of the straw tractor

Pumpkins...I don't know what to think about all of this

Mommy and I and touching my first pumpkin

What is this thing?

YAY! Go Bills!!

Change is Difficult

Everyone knows that change is difficult and that it takes time to adjust.  Today was one of those days. Olivia graduated from the Level 1 Play and Learn class at Gymboree because she can sit on her own, so today was our first adventure to Level 2.  I admit I was a little apprehensive about it.  I really enjoyed my Wednesday class and made some friends with other mommies.  There was just three of us in the class today.  There was another mom that was in the Wednesday class that came so I felt a little better. A lot of the activities involved crawling or crawling motions and Olivia is just not there yet.  She could do all the stuff that involved sitting, so I felt today was a little bit hard and even questioned my choice of starting her in the Level 2 class.  But I remember feeling this same way the first time we went to Gymboree and seeing all the other babies doing more stuff than Olivia.  I also have to remember that Olivia was 4 weeks early! She was 20 hours late of being considered a premie.  So I have to keep that in mind, and that her development may or may not be what a typical baby is doing.  We are so proud of all the milestones she has mastered so far.  We know the crawling and everything else will come when she is ready.  Even thought our schedule was all out of whack today she did great and hardly fussed at all.  Even though she took a catnap on me about 5:15 p.m. after her dinner bottle.  I think she finally gave in to being tired. 

Playing after Gymboree today

This morning she managed to scoot herself underneath the Pack and Play.