The Little Mermaid

Like the iconic Disney movie, it's a tale of both land and sea (actually it's more like pool and grass) where our Princess starts out in the water with her father and fish friends

But since flippin your fins you don't get too far, she wants to be where the people are, walkin around on those, what do you call em? Oh-feet!

And like Ariel, though still wobbly and only taking like 2 steps at a time, now she's up where they walk, up where they run, up where they stay all day in the sun! (actually not all day, just a few minutes then we moved to the shade). And here's Olivia playing with a thingamabob she's got twenty!

Thanks to Jake and Christy for letting us hang out at their building's urban oasis!

Sunday fun day

Nothing beats a relaxing Sunday off with my favorite two people!

Eleven months

 
You'll be walking any day now, and we can tell that when you do it'll be fast! You crawl like it's a race, you cruise like someone's chasing you,  and when we hold your hands you want to take off right away! You're still as sweet and smiling as ever but we can see you have a Little Miss Sassy in you that comes out when we tell you not to do something.  And if we're not looking at you, you keep peeking at us with your head tilted to the side in the cutest way that we just have to pay attention to your adorableness. I can't believe you'll be turning 1 year old in a month and how much you've learned and grown, but what's more unbelievable is how much we've learned and grown as well.

First time on a swing

Olivia's first swing went great. At first we were afraid she was still too small and might fly out, but after initially resisting to get into the seat (she fights getting into anything) she had a great few swings. Then the motion must have gotten her sleepy because her eyes got heavy and it was time to go home for her nap.

Duckface...literally

I can do b(re)ad all by myself

Sung to the hook of the 1997 R&B slow jam G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T by Changing Faces:
No more mom saying "too soon"
Waitin for me to chew my food
No more starin at the spoon
Cuz I can do bread all by myself

Ten months

 
You're cruising now (like your grandparents, haha)! You pull yourself up and take steps while holding on. You also like to pull yourself up and then let go and balance for longer and longer every day, and it's so funny how you hold your hands up as if to say "tada! I'm standing!" You wave hello and bye bye, and know to clap for yourself when you do something amazing (toot toot, that's your own horn). You grew 2 teeth like a champ, and I didn't think teeth could be cute but you somehow made it happen! You're in the two-digit months now baby, woo hoo!