no longer content

wow....this is pobably the longest i have gone without posting. i apologize. you can always tell when my camera batteries die or my memory card gets full b/c the pictures stop. it's definitely not that we have a shortage of new things happening.

the youngest member of the NC gang is no longer content to lay around and take in her surroundings. those quiet days of naps and smiles have transformed into active and rewarding days as a very distinct personality emerges.

Olivia can roll from front to back and then to front again with out batting an eye. We put her on one end of her crib to go to bed and she is on the opposite end by morning. no more napping on the couch or beds...nothing with out rails to keep her in. when she's on her belly she alternates between holding her head way up high....to head down and butt up...sort of like "downward dog" in yoga. we catch her all the time trying to pull her knees up under her...so it is only a matter of time before she puts all the individual movements together and crawls.

sitting up by herself is something that has come out of nowhere. we've always sort of "propped" her up...mostly to have her fall back between the cushions on the couch .... but then one day she just sat with out leaning against anything. awesome abdominals!!! we can't just plunk her down and turn our backs expecting she will stay up...she still wobbles and with the hard wood floors.... ouch.... but she is really doing a great job. it's a lot of fun to sit and play with her.

the two things that i could not get pictures (clear pictures) of are her two bottom teeth. yup...that's right.... teeth! the drooling and the crying (for what we thought at the time was no reason) started in the middle of August. since the doctors said they would be extremely surprised if she got teeth before a year, and that the white "pearls" on her gums were common and not indicative of teething we didn't know what had our happy baby so miserable. the left broke through before the right but they are both there now. the picture isn't the clearest...you have to look close to see them....sooooo cute!

we've been working on "dadadada" .... well i've been saying it and she has been laughing wildly each time i say it. actually...eveytime anyone says it. something about it must tickle her.

one day i'll be able to report her first haircut but i'm afraid this time i can't even claim that she's got any hair. that's not entirely true....her eyebrows have come in!!! hee hee.

i hope eveyone is doing well. i better get these pictures uploaded and get the princess(es) to bed.

(that is a burp she lets out right before diving forward)