Four Months

Four months old and Olivia is developing such a personality!

She loves to play with her toys and putting them into her mouth. She'll hold onto her pacifier a lot of the time and, when she accidentally pulls it out of her mouth, she looks so surprised.

Bath time is so much fun! Olivia loves to kick the water and every time we put her toys in the tub, she does a little dance.

Every morning, I get her out of bed around 7 a.m. and then we go see Daddy right away because Olivia loves to grin at him in the bathroom mirror as he shaves.

She coos and babbles and shrieks a lot! It's like she is telling us the most elaborate story and, if we get distracted, she says, "pay attention!"

She hasn't rolled over yet but she can get up on her side and hang out there for a while... I think she doesn't want to roll over because being on her tummy decreases the amount of the room she can see by a lot and we're definitely at a very observant and inquisitive stage right now.

Her eyes are still super dark blue and her hair keeps getting longer and thicker. It has come in a little bit like a mohawk... my baby is such a rebel. :)  

She still loves to eat and will now happily take a bottle from her daddy. Yay! She's eating every four hours during the day. She'll sleep most nights with a stretch of 8-9 hours and then another 2-3 hours. I love our bedtime routine, it has her asleep in her bed most nights by 8 p.m. and Russ and I are in the living room hanging out.

By my guess, Olivia weighs 14.5 lbs. She wears all clothes in 3-6 months, we'll see how long it takes to outgrow those because she is such a long baby (long coming from me, hehe).

Happy Baby

I may have jinxed myself with this title because, as I type this, Olivia sounds like she is winding up to be fussy.

But, she was very happy earlier in the day when she was playing on the play-mat. :)

Turkey Mountain

This past weekend, we took Olivia on her first hike. We went over to Turkey Mountain, a well known path in Tulsa.  Russ must have a sixth sense about him because, without knowing it, we were there at the same time as a mountain bike race. (p.s. Those folks are crazy and my husband can't do those races because they look scary.) 

Olivia enjoyed the race so much that she chose to take a nap on her Daddy's chest.

Blast from the Past

While I was at my parents' this last week, I went through my baby photo box and pulled out some of my favorite photos.

Here I am with my Papa Schoeb - isn't he handsome?  I love this picture because I can really see Olivia in it.

And, I love this photo because it shows my baby thigh rolls in all their glory.

Blessed!

This past week, Russ had to travel for work quite suddenly. So, Olivia, the dogs and I went to my parents' for the two nights he was gone.  It just made it so much easier because it's really hard for me to take the dogs out (on a leash because we're in an apartment) with Olivia.

Anyway, that would be why I didn't manage to get a blog post up last week. Sorry to my three or four loyal readers, here are some pictures taken at the beginning of the week. :)

Olivia using her Daddy's belt as a step. She really likes to "stand."

Skyping with Aunt B. (The orange blanket on the couch is for my dogs that like to lick their paws incessantly.)

Happy girl playing.

Playing

Something new and awesome has occurred over the last few days - We like to play. 

fuzzy phone pic

We love the mirror toy so much it is covered in spitty finger prints.

Olivia has really started to notice her toys and she is intentionally touching, batting, playing with them. 

fuzzy phone pic: this look is telling me that those arches won't be stopping her escape.

fuzzy phone pic: we were trying out our booster seat for the first time, it was a hit!

It's awesome! This is also when she will frequently start to shriek because she is having so much fun. :)

Holding my baby a little closer

I'm certain we've all heard about Lisa Irwin who was taken from her home during the night a week and a half ago.  This morning, Good Morning America showed some home movie clips of Lisa cooing and babbling just like my Olivia does and it broke my heart. 

I was so grateful that I was nursing her right then because all I wanted to do was hold her. Sending tons of prayers out to the search for baby Lisa.