Yup, our baby girl is getting bigger! She is now a whopping 17 pounds 8 ounces and 27 inches long (20th percentile on both weight and height). The downside of our 10 month check-up was we discovered that Miss Olivia has an ear infection--we knew that she wasn't feeling her best but just thought it was teething pain. So now we have the pleasure of giving a wiggly baby girl ear drops every 4 hours and trying to keep her from spitting out the antibiotics we have to give her 2 times a day.
Even when she's not feeling her best, Olivia still has plenty of energy to be curious all around the house:
She LOVES the blinds and looking out onto the balcony!
It's amazing the things you'll find stuck between your couch cushions...
Gotta explore every nook and cranny, including behind the fridge.
Dismantling her box of diapers...
...then fleeing the crime scene! But she looks a little suspicious, don't you think?
It's finally starting to cool off and feel a little bit like Fall here! When it's warm, sometimes you have to come up with creative ways to stay cool--and it just so happens, Olivia is an expert at that!
One day she decided to beat the heat by playing in the bathtub...
Or the pool is always a good and fun option...
When all else fails, standing right in front of the AC feels very refreshing!
Olivia has been working really hard lately on mastering the pincer grasp. She loves eating Puffs, and we have been trying to show her that she can pick them up and eat them on her own without us having to put them in her mouth for her (what a foreign concept!). Now we can put a few Puffs on her tray and she will feed them to herself, which is nice and convenient for all three of us!
But we gotta share this video from one of Olivia's early attempts to feed herself-- she would always pick up a Puff, get distracted, forget that she was holding it, and then drop it. She makes some pretty good faces during it too. Our baby girl is hilarious!
Olivia was so happy that her cousins Lindy and Kyla came to visit! We got to spend some time with them for a day at Disneyland.
Olivia (9 months) , Lindy (3 years), and Kyla (11 months)-- we just wish cousin Logan could have been here, too!
Lindy: "I will ride in the yellow Dumbo, and Olivia should ride in the pink one."
Not sure what to think of Donald...
Chillin' on the train
Little did we know that it was also Dapper Day, so we got to see all sorts of snazzy outfits! We sure felt out of the loop in our normal people clothes...perhaps we'll dress up for the next one!
