Well That Was Easy

Other than when she is teething, we have never really had a problem with putting Olivia down to sleep. The family that I babysat for while I was at Whitworth, and until this last August, had children who would walk themselves to their beds after lunch, lay dawn, and take a 3 hour nap! When I asked the mother how she did it her response was, "I don't know. I guess it was just always expected. And we has a routine. Well, we have not been good with a routine but it is expected that she lay down and go to sleep when it is bed time because mom and dad need some sort of sleep. Very, very thankful parents! It is 9:12pm and she just went down. It is way past her bedtime but we were Skyping with Grandma Cole and Great-Grandma Nunes. What a ball of energy! She was zooming from one end of the living room to the other on her knees and using her walker.

Right before I put her down, I was laying on the living room floor for a moment to catch my breath. Out of the corner of my eye I see Olivia crawling towards me over my right shoulder. All of a sudden I see a little mouth coming for my eye! that's right, she ate my eye! As her little lips touched down I could not help but laugh and she pulled away and started to laugh with me. Then before I knew it, she was coming in again but this time for my nose! I am not sure where she got the idea but it was cute :) Taking advantage of all the small moments. Hopefully she will be thankful for all of the documenting that I am doing, even if it is not the most well written.

What is not to love about this face!? Loving these bright colors on her. Thank you Grandma Sheila!

Chowing down on some Mum-Mums.


Pictures from our mommy daughter date to the park :) I know that Mike has some too from when he takes her.

She LOVES the swing

Goofball!

Sweetheart

She was totally mean muggin some kids at the park! Just kidding! I just happened to catch her at the perfect wrong moment.

Eating banana pieces!

So, we decided that we were going to try making our own baby food. I opened up the baby bullet that we received at our baby shower and got to work! The first food I made was straight banana. She loved it! Then I made an avocado, blueberry mix. I was not sure what she would think about it because I do not like avocado but she liked it!So after a couple over mixes, this week I made a blueberry, banana. YUCK! She did not like it at all. So, then I tried a banana, apple thinking that maybe it was the skin of the blueberry that she did not like. NOPE! She didn't like this one either -_- UGH! So then I decided to give her slices of banana. It took a little while but I eventually got her to eat most of them. Well, on to different flavors. If the feeding schedule is even remotely close to what we should be feeding her, we are WAY behind. It is now a fight to find flavors that she likes. I do need to try some of the veggies (which she seems to like more anyway) but that means that I have to steam them and I just do not have the time or the energy right now.

Mike and I definitely feel like we need to sleep for a week. Thankfully my family will be here this weekend to help with that! Man, there are so many stores to share but I am completely drawing a blank...