In addition to the teething, Olivia is steadily improving her ability to grasp things and generally use her arms and hands better. A good example of this is when Amanda aspirates Olivia's nose (i.e., when Amanda sucks the boogers out of Olivia's nose). As you can imagine, babies are to happy when this is done to them and Olivia has learned how to push Amanda's hands away. She'll sometimes even grab Amanda's fingers and try to pull them away from her nose. To say the least, Olivia's new skill has made the task of nasal aspiration much more difficult.
Amanda did go out and buy one of those small chairs for Olivia to sit in. You may have not seen this little gadget before, but it's actually pretty cool. It doesn't tip over and is contoured so that as long as the baby has decent head control, they can sit up and look at the world around them very easily. Here's a picture of Olivia's new blue seat:
Something of interest to notice with this picture...note the teething ring up her arm and one of her other toys hooked over her foot. We did not put those there. I swear Olivia is going to grow up to be some sort of trapeze artist...she's always catching stuff with her feet or flipping stuff onto her arms. Here's another demonstration of her "talent":
Other than that, there's not too much new to report. Amanda is doing well, I'm doing just fine too. Fiona's leg continues to heal...she's walking on it a lot more, but she still heavily favors it and will occasionally resort to using just three legs.
Without further ado, her are some pictures from the past week:
One final note...Olivia is not the only one celebrating an age milestone today, so is Olivia's cousin Clare! Clare Victoria Dueweke (my niece) turns two years old today! Happy Birthday Clare!!!
3 comments:
What a little doll she is growing up to be! I think her new chair is terrific and I love the fact that she can put things on her hands and feet when no one is looking! She'll be our little magician with her "slight of hand" ability. Yeah Olivia on her 4-month milestone!
What a cutie! And a very cool chair. I bet she loves sitting up in it.
This may not be what's going on with you, but my daughter started all that right about four months too, and didn't get any teeth until seven. We couldn't figure out what was going on until our pediatrician said that their salivary glands kick in full force at four months and that's why they drool. Just FYI. :)
happy birthday, olivia! you are too cute. i love your chair. wish my kids had had one of those. and i gave up on that nose cleaning pretty early with jack and never even did it with mia. they made it seem like it was pure baby torture! :)
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