5 Months Old

Olivia is 5 Months Old Today!! Wow!

She's grabbing stuff so much better lately & can kind of pass things in between her hands.

She rolls all over & around when we play on the floor.

When a toy falls from where she can grab she's starting to get pretty upset.

She only takes about 3 30 minute naps each day lately.  (She needs more!)  & has made her bedtime earlier to make up for the lack of sleep.

Her hair is getting a little bit longer.

She tends to flip on her belly lately at night when she's sleeping, or if she's fussing & rolls on her belly she'll fall asleep quickly.  She stopped rolling all around for awhile but is back to it when she's awake or throughout the night. 

She cries when daddy has 'weekend whiskers' & gives her kisses.

She's showing an interest & watches us when we're eating.  & loves to grab at my coffee cup while I'm sipping it.
Cabrinha is very interesting to her!  I can't get her to look at me most of the time, but if Cabrinha is sitting or walking near by she turns her head & she smiles! :)  (Fortunately, Cabrinha is starting to show a bit more interest in her & 'kisses' her a lot more now, but I'm not convinced she's loving having a baby sister around yet.  Wait until we have Cheerios dropping to the floor D. always says.) :)

I'm terrible at these weeks/months pictures.  there are about 10 weeks out of 22ish that are missing.  Ooops.  ... and it only gets 'worse' as you have more kids??  Oh dear, I'm sorry future kids!  I just forget.  or am too lazy.  or the time just slips past faster than a banana.  ?! I don't know.  Either way, at least we'll have some to celebrate with if I ever make a scrap book for her. :)  Think I might definitely switch to just 'months' from now on & wish I would have done that from the start.

Cheers!

-L-

Toys & a Haircut

Toys

I ordered a few toys for Liv last week - I originally was going to buy eco-friendly blocks made in Grand Rapids, MI but bought a few little things instead. ( She really doesn't have any/many toys. . . . (I should go take a pic of that)) So I know I need a few new things for her to see & play with once in awhile. We're trying to be *somewhat* minimalistic as far as baby/toy stuff but we know they still need things!!   Anyway, ALL these toys for a total of $?$?$?$ shipped.  Can you guess how much?

I bought a deal from eversave.com back in November.  It was a $35 gift certificate for $12 but with sign ups I got it for $5.  After an email code for 15% off & the gift cert. I paid an addt'l $1.96 for a total of $6.96
It would have been: $43.48  Wowzas! :)  ($35.98 with $7.50 for shipping)

Haircut!

Before - Yuck -Can you tell I haven't had a haircut since LAST spring?!  Being pregnant was still 'new' the last time I got a haircut.  ECK!  It just goes into a ponytail almost all the time....
I've been losing hair by the *handful* every day.... It was long past due.



                                    

                                             After!  I'm not in love with it - but it's so nice not to be so thick & blah.



Having a snack with daddy before he went to work tonight! :)



                                          

                                               Mommy & Me - we have sooo few pictures together. I had to grab one!

Cheers!
-L-

blocks in case you're wondering about them:

http://www.unclegoose.com/products/classic-abc-blocks/

Mon

This morning I met Dave after he was done giving a lecture & went to the Dr. to get Liv's vaccinations.  Two big painful ones with some pretty big cries & then she was quiet by the time we walked out of the room. 

We traded cars & I ran out into town to browse around, & did some shopping.  Also grabbed two delicious coffee drinks at our local coffee shop which offers 50% off drinks on Monday for Military. yum!  yes, please!  Dave came home with O while I went out.

Had a very lazy day together afterwards that went by quickly.  Next I knew the Red Wings were on & it was quickly evening.  Not quickly enough for Livy though since she has reallllly been fighting naps lately.  Like...by an hour. ...sometimes two. or more.  Today she was up after a 45 minute nap at 3:30.... and wouldn't sleep again til we put her to bed 'early' at 7:30pm. 

She's been telling us lately that she's wanting to move her bedtime from 9pm to much sooner - 7:30ish on average.  (mostly by refusing to sleep in the afternoon until she's just so tired & goes to bed early getting up once to eat before we go to bed & then still sleeping through the night after that time.)

Just figure a lot of it out one day at a time....

Cheers!
-L-

Our Week & Weekend

Thursday I spent all.day.long. cooking & baking up a storm!  I delivered two full meals to two friends & also some treats to another - all who just had little girls in the last couple weeks!!!

All packed up & ready to go!

I made Roasted Vegetable Penne Bake, homemade Ciabbata bread, & a big salad for dinner & Cookies & Cream Brownies for dessert.  I also made Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins w/a side of fruit for breakfast, because I remember that post baby - as awesome as it was to get dinner, something yummy for breakfast would have rocked!!

David & Livvy & I spent two hours delivering our meals & then came home to enjoy some ourselves!!  (A little bummed though b/c the recipe calls for it to bake at 450* & even though it seemed a bit too warm I did just that & so it was a little dry - which unfortunately means it was the same for our friends!) :(  Oh well....


Friday we just hung out, had leftovers for dinner (but I made french bread since I didn't make any for us Thurs.), we randomly ended up watching a comedian online & who knows?

Saturday - Liv had us up around 6a or so & D couldn't sleep anymore so he grabbed us a caramel coffee drink at the local shop & some donuts from across the way. yuuuuuuum.  I tried to sleep in a bit later & then a beautiful little girl came to wake me up about 9a right after she got up again. :)

I spent the morning finishing up some VIP - very important projects/packages.  & then we went out to town to the Post Office & Lowes (which took about an hour and a half.  Seriously, can any get out of there in less?) & the grocery store.  There we picked up a bottle of champagne & some steak for dinner.  We enjoyed it outside on the backporch on a warm evening with a slight breeze.  Hot tub was great too - minus the fact that every neighbor seemed to be in their back yard last night - ha. awkward.  we could whisper and probably still hear each other. 

Excited that we got a clothesline yesterday to hang up in the backyard so now I can dry & sun the diapers more often! yay!  I just had them laying on a towel on the hot tub the last couple times. 

Today - we watched church with some muffins & fruit & coffee of course.  Dave's been doing a bunch of stuff in the garage & around the yard.  Liv's taking a couple tiny naps.  & I'm in the mix of doing a ton of things & relaxing.  Next up is folding a ton of laundry that's accumulated over the last week.  Salsa Chicken is in the crockpot for dinner, so that's a beautiful thing! Oh, and I'm surprising Dave with some of his favorite cookies too - Chocolate & Mint Chip cookies!

Cheers!
-L-