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My beautiful, sweet, loving, funny little girl,

How could this be baby? You are halfway to a YEAR?! I don’t believe it, it feels like just yesterday you were a brand new wrinkly and squishy little newborn that I held in my arms all day long. You are such a different baby now, its amazing how fast time goes!! I know I say this often, but watching you grow is so bittersweet, I love cheering you on as you reach each milestone, but each one that passes sets in the reality even more that you will grow up, and there is nothing momma can do about it. I always joke around when friends ask how you are doing, I usually start with telling them a milestone like “She has two teeth now!” and follow that with “I may as well just send her off to college!” Silly, I know, but each day that passes, makes me miss and remember the first day I spent with you.

You are so special to your daddy and I, every day we talk about how incredibly lucky we are that God chose YOU to be OUR baby, it really is a miracle. (We think he chose the most perfect baby in the world by the way).

You are so loved and spoiled by your family, they love you so much! Grandma Val and Papa Kent, Auntie Bug and Uncle Haris (lovingly named Uncle Harry which I am sure he just loves) live here in Arizona and we try to see them as much as we can with our hectic schedules. You get a real kick out of how silly Kent can be, and you love when Grandma Val sings you songs. Grandma Suzanne and your Bumpa are still in California, but we see them all the time, and you love to see them on the web-cam and hear them on the phone (although all you ever want to do is eat it). Auntie Bean and Uncle Jose are in California too, baking your baby cousin who will be here in a little over 2 months. They all will be here on Christmas morning this year to celebrate with us. (Mommy is still plotting for them all to move here to be with us, lets hope before your one year letter they live down the street!). Speaking of Christmas, it will be our first year all celebrating together and we are so excited. You have been such a sweet girl this year and I know Santa is going to bring you lots of fun things

This month you are: yelling/screeching like crazy, loving eating your pureed foods (especially prunes, carrots, pears, and sweet potatoes), have learned to “buzz” your lips which you think is so funny (and it is, except when we are feeding you, makes for one HUGE mess!), starting to sleep on your tummy with your face nuzzled right into your crib bumper, any other way and you just wont sleep. Still love when momma rocks you to sleep, still up twice in the night to eat, loving picking up toys and throwing them, and you also learned to put a toy from one hand to the other (a milestone according to your pediatrician). You just love your daddy, whenever he is in the room, your eyes are glued to him with a huge smile on your face, I think we have a daddy’s girl on our hands. Kobe is just about your favorite thing in the entire world, you could just stare at him all day and especially love when he gives you kisses (when really all he is doing is looking for any food or spit up, gross), you still love the jumperoo and exersaucer, you love falling asleep to classical music (you loved that when you were in Mommy’s belly too), and love when we sing you songs. You are showing a big interest in crawling, you have scooted quite a few times and have the right technique down, I think you are just extremely determined to get to your toys that we make sure to place out of arms reach. You are starting to not like being confined, whenever we try to hold you you immediately turn the other way to see whats going on around you, I think you are very observant, especially when we are out shopping, you just love people watching! You really love toys that are bright and colorful, the more noise the better. You will hold your own bottle now, but only if I am holding you. If I prop you up with the bottle, you are flipped over and scooted 3 feet away from where I put you in about 2 seconds. The morning times are your favorite, you are so funny and playful and full of laughs, mommy and daddy really get a kick out of it. You still take about 3 naps a day. Still loving bath time, we got you a cool new bath chair and you still are unsure if you like it or not. Your hair is still long and crazy just like when you were born. I think there are some ringlets coming through, which makes momma SO happy! Lately I think your hair will be a light brown/red color, but that could always change. You are just about the best thing that has ever happened to us and we love you more and more every second!

I know that in the coming months, you are going to start really crawling, furniture cruising, talking/babbling, walking…I just want to freeze us in this moment in time, today, at 8:32 am on Wednesday December 23rd, because I love the baby that you are at this moment so much, I hate to think that you will change so much. I thank God every day for the blessings he has brought to our lives with you, we are so lucky to be the parents of such an amazing little girl.

I love you baby girl,

Momma

Happy (almost) December, almost end of 2009, wow, seriously?! What a crazy, crazy year it has been! We are so super busy over here, between work, the business, O, trips to California, the holidays, etc etc., my poor blog has been so neglected! One of my goals for 2010 is to be a better blogger, its so therapeutic for me, I just need to make more time for it!

I have some 5 month pictures of our sweetie, sportin not one, but TWO little teeth, just about the cutest two teeth you will ever see in your life! I have no piggy picture to go along with, now that she is so busy it is darn near impossible to get her to sit still. I had to get daddy to bribe her with toys and sing silly songs for these few shots! We attempted our Christmas photos today, she never even made it into the dress, this girl does not want to be held down whatsoever. You will notice that on a couple of the pics, you can see the logo on her onesie underneath the ’5 months’ sticker, I could not find a pink onesie in the monstrosity I call her wardrobe, so this ‘I love my Lakers’ one had to do…I only photoshopped one out (for her baby book) and then I got lazy. I have a couple photo sessions to edit, among many other things so I skipped prettying them up, please forgive me!

Without further adieu, the princess herself

Is it just me, or does having teeth make her go from baby to infant in 2.5 seconds? We put her high chair together yesterday and put her in it for the first time, I almost cried but resisted, this ‘watching your children’ grow thing is so rewarding, but so heart breaking at the same time!

Thanks for peeking! Up on the worlds longest ‘to blog’ list…three photo sessions, O’s first Thanksgiving, our holiday blog-letter (going green this year!), some yummy recipes, and other randoms I am sure

I thought I would pop on while Miss O is napping this morning and write her 5 month letter. Wow, the last month she has changed so much, she is growing leaps and bounds, and I am just so proud of our little girl!! I will post her 5 month pictures (that I have not taken) tomorrow I hope!

Dear Miss Olivia,

You are one month away from being 6 months old…really?!?! How am I so lucky to have had the chance to spend this many blessed days with you in my life? I must have done something right somewhere along the line, because you are the greatest blessing I could have ever recieved. It has been so fun to watch you grow, you are turning into such a cute little baby with so much personality. I think you changed the most from 4 months to now, so much that I cant even remember you as the little baby that just lay there and didnt do much (although my heart longs to be back to that first day you were born, the first time and held you and never wanted to let go). Me and you went on our first road trip solo, Daddy stayed home and we drove to California to see mommys family. Although the car ride was rough, it was so good to see everyone, and to get to show them how much you have grown. Everyone says you are gorgeous, just like your mommy

At 5 months you are

*Loving playing with toys

*Grabbing at things and holding them tight

*Able to take your binky out of your mouth and actually put it back IN!

*Learning that you can scream with your voice, and you do it often, especially when you want our attention

*Growing out of your fussy stage (The first 4 months were rough little girl!)

*Content sitting in your bumbo chair or rainforest swing

*Still LOVING your swing, you take all your naps in it, and lately your morning naps have been about 3 hours (yay for mommy!)

*Going to bed every night around 7 and up for the day around 7 (although still up twice each night for a bottle)

*Starting to notice Kobe (our dog), letting him lick your face, and grabbing for him when hes close by

*Not afraid of strangers, you love when anyone holds you (for the most part) and will laugh and smile at pretty much anyone (especially men!)

*Not quite ready to sit up, but working on it

*Able to roll from tummy to back (you did that at 3 months) and now are rolling from back to tummy. It is pretty funny to watch since you have not figured out how to free your arms when they are underneath you.

*Are about 11 and a half pounds, and 25 inches (still soo skinny and long!)

*Barely fitting into your 3 month clothes, can still wear some newborn carter onesies actually

*Love listening to music and Daddys crazy songs, he never knows the words so he makes up his own tunes

*You listen to classical music during naptime and love it

*You have started opening your mouth super wide when we lean in to kiss you, its so slobbery and cute

*You still love baths, especially with the “this is the way we wash our…” song

*Still cry in the car seat from time to time, but are slowly growing out of it

*Love playing in the new exersaucer Ella’s mommy loaned us

and the biggest milestone this month….(drumroll please)

*YOUR FIRST TOOTH POPPED THROUGH!! (you have been teething for a long time so I am glad to see that it may bring you some relief, but makes mommy so sad to hit a milestone that means your growing bigger!)

Olivia, I love you more than the world. I am so happy to be your mommy, and so lucky to have such a special daughter. I hope our bond grows stronger with each passing day, and as you look back and read these one day I hope you know how much I loved you from the very start. Some nights, I rock you in your rocking chair and just snuggle you for what seems like forever, knowing that someday soon, you wont need or want me to rock you anymore. Someday you will be trying to push me away because you learned to walk and walking is always better than having to be held. Someday you wont need me to hold your bottles. Someday you wont need me to give you baths and to brush your hair and get you dressed, so for now, while you still DO need me, I plan to soak up every single second, even if it means putting off the laundry or forgoing my shows on TIVO, because right now at this moment in my life you are 5 months old, and I want to enjoy every second of it!

Love you baby girl!

Love,

Momma

It has been a seriously BUSY three weeks over here at the Fazio house, and to top it off I am working this whole weekend, even a further delay on some good ole’ blogging, boooo!

Me and Olivia took our first solo trip to California, yes thats right, me and her, alone, in a car, driving 400 miles…8 hours each way and 20 stops later, this momma was beat! I think next time I will be sure to bring hubby along, we really missed him and I know his heart ached without O.

I need to get to bed, its 10:32, laundry needs to be done, I need to shower, and put my dog to bed. Why does life seem to just fly by these days?? My little girl is 5 months old and I can hardly believe it, and I am sure I will be saying that until she is 55 years old….she is still (and always will be) my baby and its been so much fun watching her grow!

 

 

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