Olivia

Next week Olivia will be 6 months old! Seriously I don't even know where the time has gone.

What I do know is man she is growing up fast!

She has been crawling since 4 and a half months, sitting up since 5 months, and she has begun to pull herself up on things and climb shallow steps. It is funny to see her around other babies that are older than her and not yet crawling. She is so small compared to them but she can crawl right up to them and grab their face and all they can do it lay or sit there crying because they can't move yet. (Yes this has happened a few times at the library...)

She chews on EVERYTHING! We were at church on Sunday and she kept leaning over to chew on the pew, then she had a friends travel brush during Sunday School and she was just chewing it and kind of throwing it around.... she actually ended up somehow pulling the two sides apart. She's crazy.

We have started giving her solids. Her first food was a baked sweet potato. She pretty much demolished it and was shoving it in her mouth. She's tried a few things (Sweet potato, avocado, banana, grapes, green beans, peach, asparagus, potatoes, black beans, chicken) and it turns out so far she really isn't a big fan of fruit. Which I think is really weird, but I think her favorite food so far has been black beans, avocado, and chicken. She was using the spoon to shovel in the black beans all by herself and going crazy. It was awesome. Letting her feed herself is SUPER messy but she seems to love it so it's definitely worth the mess. Also, I love not giving her the typical gerber baby food and just giving her some of what we are eating. She seems to enjoy eating what mom and dad are eating. It's fun and I don't have to worry about buying baby food. woohoo!