Olivia is five months old already.  That is insane to me.  I feel like she was just four months old yesterday.  In one more month she will have been with our little family for half of an entire year.  Time is going too too too fast.  

She has become a very easy cheesey baby.  I'm knocking on wood and I feel scared even putting that out there into the world because its just like I'm tempting karma to come and bite me in the butt and turn her into a monster.  But oh well I guess I'll risk it.  Also this might be the longest post ever because I have tons of pictures that I want to use.  I could take pictures of her all day. And sometimes I do.  So you've been warned.

Because look at this precious face.  Who wouldn't want to take pictures of it all day long?

Also I like to take selfies with her.  Because that's fun.  And only sometimes scary.

So at 5 months little Livvy is still sleeping through the night.  Usually.  There are some nights, like last night, where she'll wake up and talk and play and then have a hard time falling back to sleep.  If she weren't in the same room with us it probably wouldn't be a big deal.  She could whine a little and then eventually drift off to sleep.  But since I don't trust the crazy boys and I don't want to put her in the room in the front of the house. . . she is stuck in our room.  Which means there are nights like last night where Brice huffs off to the other room and then I just listen to Livvy play/cry/yell until she falls back asleep.  Sometimes I get up and give her the pacifier.  But I don't want to get her used to getting picked up and rocked back to sleep.   

In the morning if she wakes up before the boys I pull her into bed with me.  And cuddle her on my chest.  And I'm so glad she still small enough to do snuggle with like that. 

She also has moved from her bassinet to the crib.  Because she loves shoving her face into the side of things to sleep.  And after one night after three times of waking up and seeing her face smushed against the bassinet I made Brice get the crib set up.  And no bumper pads for her.  Because she tries to suffocate herself.  

She is pretty good natured during the day and loves loves loves the boys so much.

Here she is laughing at Jace.

She can sit pretty good in her little seat now.  And we have just started to try rice cereal.  Not sure how much she actually eats but at least we're attemtping it.  She also is so nosy that if there is any noise around her, especially the boys, she will not eat her bottle.  She squirms trying to see what's going on.  I have to force feed her sometimes. And she likes to play with toys now.

 

Here is more from our little photo shoot.

As always she was a good sport.  But then she got hungry.

And then she got mad.

So then I fed her and we tried again.

She is always raising her eyebrows up.  I think she might have forehead wrinkles before she hits 2.  I love this picture.  Partly because she looks like she either has a) four eyebrows or b) one insane uni-brow

 

Yay the cousins are here!  And as always when they come there are sooooo many pictures. And if I wait to look through them I usually don't end up using even a quarter of them.  So in an effort to not overlook or forget some of the pics, here are a few of my favorites so far.  In no particular order.

Livvy and Kimbrie finally meeting. Yay!  They are both little cuties.

Aunt Melanie and Livvy.  Livvy loves her Aunt Melanie.  She can pretty much always make Livvy giggle.  Also sometimes I think that Liv's hair looks like it could be a little reddish.  Kind of a little in this picture compared to Mel's red hair.  

Daddy telling Cam to tell me, "Peace, woman."

Bow making his cousin smile.  He's pretty sweet with her.  Probably sweeter than he is with his own little sis. . .

Jace covering his eyes to count for Kick the Can.  Cam quickly following suit.


Cam running to kick the can.  I love how much fun they had. 

Bowman emerges from his hiding spot, cookie in tow.

FREEZE TAG!

And meanwhile, in "slinky world". . .

Sweet little McKeanzie doing her own thing.

What a sweet pair!

The boys really got into the freeze tag and kick the can.  

Papa with little Livvy


Bow and Jace know the only way to get into a freezing cold pool is to jump.

Love, love her eyes.

A cute one of Bow and Keanz.  Jace and Cameron were too grumpy to pose for me.


My sweet baby girl, almost 5 months!

An attempt to get one of the six cousins.

Love Cam in the upper left one.  Something got in his mouth.  Which is why he looks so grumpy in the first big one. 

Love these six kiddos!!

For some reason, Jace didn't  believe me that spraying his face would lead to 

this, and then

this, and then. . .

this.

Also I finally got some pictures of Livvy loving her bath.  She loves having a bath.  So much so that I moved her out of her baby tub because she acts like such a spaz and gets water everywhere when she's in it, even though she hasn't grown out of it yet.  She just loves to kick in the water so much.

So I filled the bathtub a couple of inches and let her kick to her hearts content.  

And just for fun I'm throwing in this random picture of Cam Spam.  Who, in this picture, is almost a full month younger than Olivia is in her picture.  And probably almost twice her weight.  

She loves loves loves the water.  Also her hair is kind of crazy.  And getting longer on top, but nowhere else.  So I'm not quite sure what to do with it.  I know I need to start trying to comb it down.  But it looks weird when I do.

And also the part on the back of her head where she rubs her head back and forth when she's falling asleep had started to grow in again.  But I discovered to my horror that her ten minute bath time adventure rubbed it right back off again.  Whoops.

I love when she lets me cuddle her to sleep.  She is almost to the point now that since she can self soothe herself to sleep, she'd rather do that. When I'm holding her she just wants to laugh and talk to me and she gets mad if she thinks I'm putting her to sleep.  I have to wrestle with her sometimes to get her to sleep in my arms.  But it is worth it.