The Top Ten List of Months Six and Seven

Wow What a couple of months it has been!  We are finally done with the school year after a very extended length of time, and now it is time to kick back, relax, and enjoy our time with each other!  We have very few plans for the summer.  A couple weeks at the beach and some tutoring dates sum it up.  We look forward to many more updates this summer with our free time!

So much has happened in the life of Olivia Grace! I thought making a Top Ten List would help sum of the changes, firsts, and growth that has happened in the past six weeks! Here we go:

1. Olivia is rolling over officially!

She is starting to become our little mover.  She loves to sleep on her stomach now and is starting the army crawl in a 360 motion!  

2. She is eating solid foods three times a day!

We have only found a few foods she dislikes and that includes peas and any mixed veggies.  Her favorites include carrots, green beans, pears, and peaches! I tried to make my own food, but she did not like my carrots.  Then we became so busy I put it on hold until this summer.  So look out Olivia I am starting to make it again!

3. Olivia spend three days with Gram Puryear while mommy and daddy were at Outdoor Ed!

It was the first time away from Olivia, but she was in good hands.  Jean came and stayed with Olivia and what adventures they had!  "Olivia" created a whole journal of the time we were apart. They went out to lunch and a trip to the store topped the list.  Gram and Olivia left early on Friday and Dan and I met them at the beach that afternoon.  We missed her terribly and was so happy to see that smiling face again.  It was great though that Olivia could spend time with Gram, I know Gram had a blast with her granddaughter. 

4. Olivia had her first trip to the beach and loved the sand and water! 
Did we have any doubt since she is our child, but she visited the beach on Memorial Day weekend and she loved it! She sat in the sand and ran it though her fingers for a while.  Then figured out she could put it in her mouth.  We moved her to the center of a blanket at that point!  She loved the water too, especially knocking over the buckets we would bring to her.  The nap was not successful, but we will try again.  We have all summer to figure out how to get her to sleep under the pop up tent!

5. Another weekend she spend a whole weekend with Daddy alone while mommy was away!
The weekend of June 18th, I had a bridal shower/bachlorette party for my friend Shannon. So I headed out for NY early Saturday morning and Dan had Olivia all to himself for a day and a half!  Dan and Olivia played in the pool, read books, played with Hurley and hung out with Aunt Laura. 
I was sent text message updates and missed her so much.  I had a blast in NY though and it was nice to see the Keuka Soccer girls again. Dan is such an amazing father and it is fabulous that he spends time with her!

6. Now she holds her own bottle! 
Well the other day I tried to nurse Olivia before she went to bed, but she was having nothing of nursing! So we heated up a bottle for her and sure enough she laid on the bed and sucked the bottle down, holding it herself the entire time!  When she was with Dan he also made the comment that she likes to hold it for herself and on Saturday night she would only drink it on the changing table.  So our baby is becoming so independent.   It is very adorable to see her lay there feeding herself.  

7. She can sit up all by herself!
Shortly after she turned six and a half months, she was sitting by herself.  It was a Monday and usually we set her down on the floor to play, propped up with something.  For several weeks she was sitting by her self for a few seconds.  On this Monday in May,  I was sitting behind her and I realized she was sitting by herself for more than a few seconds!  The seconds became minutes and we realized she reached the sitting milestone! Since then she prefers sitting up to play, and watch what is going on around her.  There have been an occasional bumps and knocks by Hurley, but she rebalanced herself and stays upright.  The few times she has fallen over she clap and shout "yeah!"

8. Is always babbling, screaming, and laughing.

"DADADADA"  "BABABABAB"  "ABABABAB" and various others can be heard thought the house and car! Just this morning it sounded like she did say "MAMA," but we will see.  She is so loud though.  (I have no idea where she gets that from!) Just laughing, screaming, and babbling.  It is so much fun to listen to her talk! 

9. She attended several parties! 
The Spring time and especially the end of the year brings many parties!  Olivia attended several this spring, including Monica's Bridal Shower that was at our house, Kate's graduation party, two retirement parties, and the end of the year annual happy hour!  She was an angel at all and let anyone hold her.  She smiled at everyone and loved every second of the new faces.  We feel so lucky because we can take her places and she does not have the stranger anxiety.  She is also a good little adjuster too  She will roll with the new places, eat her food, and fall asleep easily on the way home.  We just have to hold her for a few minutes when we get home and put her in the crib.  Dan and I had the whole party system down cold.  We knew exactly when it was time to leave!  I know you are surprised we have a child that loves to hang out and party!

10. Finally, cut  two bottom teeth break through!  
 After many months of drool and endless items in her mouth, Olivia cut her two bottom teeth!  The left arrived first around June 14th and the right bottom arrived a few days later.  She was a trooper!  She was not sleeping as well, but stayed a happy baby.  I was waiting every night for her to cry out in pain, but it never happened.  We lucked out with the bottom.  She is very protective though and will not let us near those new teeth!  We can tell now that the top are making there way next.  The toothless grin is soon to be no more!

Well this pretty much sums up the events of the past six weeks!  It was an extremely busy months of May and June.  There are over a hundred pictures on the Picasa Web Album, including the beach trip and out pool time!  Please feel free to link to those on the right column.  

We promise to update sooner!  

Love to you all