Olivia at 10 Months

Our big girl is 10 months old and Sofia is just one month shy of her 5th birthday today! Olivia certainly has changed in the past month and seems to be growing up and changing on a daily basis. Olivia is now 27.5 inches and weighs 20 lbs even now! She still doesn't crawl, but is getting closer, although she tends to get onto her hands and feet rather than her knees and then moves backwards. She does love to explore her movement options though and especially loves standing up and holding onto something and can do so for a very long time. She's good at resting her forearm on a table ledge and playing with a toy, so she's pretty stable on her feet.

Olivia has four top teeth and two bottom teeth and loves feeding herself completely, so despite how hungry she might be, she will basically not eat all that delicious homemade baby food off a spoon from me and instead prefers finger foods. She will literally eat any and everything except for avocado, which she acts like it might be poison once it's in her mouth. Not only will she eat anything, but she eats a lot - more than Sofia probably! One of her favorite "starters" is peanut butter or hummus spread onto rice crackers. She will do a good job eating it, but it will also be all over her face and hair by the time she's done. She's obviously very proud of feeding herself though.

Like Sofia, she's very good at mimicking sounds and has said "Mama" since she was 5 months old and "Papa" since 8 months old, although she also says "Dada" at times. She loves to clap and click her tongue and will respond with the correct noise when CK asks her what sound a monkey makes. It's very cute.

She's a very social little gal who tries to catch other people's eye when we are out and about and is very liberal with her sweet smile. Except when she's very tired, she's generally in a happy and relaxed mood and is such fun to be around.

Sofia is excited for her 5th birthday and wants ladybug cupcakes and a pool party. She loves horses and spends a lot of time "trotting" around on all fours and neighing like a horse. Although she's not as into trains and Thomas as she used to be, she does still set up her train track and haul her little plastic horses around on the train and still loves reading Thomas train stories. She also continues to have a very vivid imagination and makes up interesting and detailed stories of horses. She's such a fun, happy girl and is very social, although she's becoming a little more conscience of herself, especially around adults. Our girls are growing up so fast and we are loving all the milestones, but sometimes which it could go a little slower....

OUr 10 month old

Not so sure she wants to smile, which is pretty rare, especially when there's a camera around!

Our BIG girl!

Sisters!

A happy smile, thanks to her big sister

This is how Olivia eats and drinks....

Olivia puts the food in her mouth...

...then makes sure that it made it all the way in!

Just a little messy but so happy to feed herself!