I am 7 months old today!

I went for a new strategy this month with putting the sign behind Olivia since she can't grab it if she doesn't know it's there. But, I had other problems this time trying to get her 7 month picture, like keeping her still!

Although Olivia isn't crawling yet, she is all over the place. She rolls to get to where she wants to go and she can go from a sitting position to her stomach and she can turn herself in any direction once she is on her stomach but the only way she has mastered actually moving distance is by rolling. She also does not sit still at all, she has to be moving at all times whether it is flapping her arms and legs or doing her "bounce" that she has going on. I'm not sure where she got this move from but she has some rhythm (definitely did not get that from her daddy)! I will capture it on video one day hopefully soon but she now knows what the camera is and when she sees it, she will stop what she is doing and look at it. She hasn't discovered she is supposed to smile for it, but instead reaches for it.

I was able to sneak a picture of her doing her bounce before she caught me and she's got her arm involved and everything!

And...it didn't take her long to find the sign.

Looks like the 7 month pictures are now over.

Besides being insanely active, Olivia is also very talkative. She now makes da's, ga's, ba's and ra's which sound like barking noises that I'm pretty sure she got from the dogs. She also blows very slobbery raspberries in the air that crack me up every time. I was actually able to capture some of her "talking" this morning before leaving the house. My favorite is how she "talks" with her legs.

We have also reached another milestone - the big girl bathtub! We have put away the baby tub now that Olivia sits very well. She loves the big girl tub and loves bath time even more now.