Monday, October 11, 2010

Happy 8 Months, Livvy!

What a fun couple of months this has been with Olivia! She is revealing her sweet, happy, serious, and super fun personality to us more and more every day!

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Here she is peeking over her crib - time to move the mattress down!
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There is no doubt about it - Livvy LOVES Rocky! She gets so excited when she hears him meowing and looks everywhere until she finds him. She pets him, and as you can see, he loves her, too.
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Livvy is moving all around. She can get across the room - backwards! Not officially crawling, I guess she is scooting on her belly. She can also scoot on her bottom when sitting up. She is pulling her legs up, though, and is definitely working toward crawling! She is also trying to pull up.

She still loves peek-a-boo and will grab any piece of material she can get her hands on and hold it in front of her face until we realize what she is doing and ask, "Where's Livvy?" Then she giggles and giggles when we say "Peek-a-boo!"

Everybody loves Olivia's one long piece of blonde hair in the front that is perfect for bow wearing. But, without a bow, it provides for lots of fun hairdos! She usually has one big curl right on top! I can count at least four times that Livvy has been told she looks like a Cabbage Patch kid (in a good way)!

Olivia looks like she wishes she could just jump in and play with the big kids. She watches them like crazy! Kiran and Ellery really play well with her, and Livvy loves it!

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Livvy gives Jeff the biggest smile each night as I'm walking out of the room to carry her to bed. They BOTH love that!

Olivia has a very serious look on when she is first getting to know someone. Once she gets to know you, she gives great big smiles. She is pretty quiet around strangers. She talks to me when I whisper to her. And, she talks most when she is chewing on her toys - sometimes, it seems like she is chatting about all that teething (you can see those bottom teeth under the gums) she is doing. She doesn't mind being held by others, though she certainly prefers Mom and Dad. However, I go at least once a week to the gym, and she has cried a lot the past 4 times. She just doesn't know what to think about it, but the childcare workers there are wonderful! I hear my name being called to come to the childcare center at about 50 minutes into the workout. Luckily, I have no interest in working out longer than an hour!


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Livvy loves her telephone and will play with it for long periods of time.
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With Rocky again!
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On a fun family hike!
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We took some pictures in the UT Gardens!
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Go Purple! :) We decided to show support for Uncle Keri's team, and Livvy happily sported her accessories.
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On a playgroup outing taking a little nap
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Her latest favorite way of sleeping with Giraffy under her arm, fingers in her mouth, and on her belly! Too cute!
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Here are some sweet videos!







1 comment:

Natalie said...

We loved seeing all the pictures of sweet Olivia and hearing what she's up to! What a big girl!