Month in Review

This past month has been a pretty busy month especially with our trip to Michigan, the kids starting day care, and Ben getting ready to go back to work. But Alex and Olivia have been keeping us busy and are growing so much every day. It is hard to believe they will be five months old this Thursday. I suppose when you are so busy the time seems to fly by so quickly.

Here are a few highlights from the last month:

We decided to bring out the highchairs in preparation for feeding the kids baby food. Although we won't start feeding them baby food until they are 6 months old, we thought it would be a good idea for them to get use to their highchairs. So every night when we eat dinner the kids sit at the table with us in their highchairs. Olivia does not seem to mind the high chair, while Alex does not like it at all. I am sure once he learns that he will get food while sitting in the chair (he loves to eat) he will like it much better. But for right now, he typically does not last more than 5 or 10 minutes in his high chair without a meltdown.

Alex and Olivia have discovered that they have feet. They love to play with them every day and Olivia is even starting to figure out how to get them in her mouth. The picture below is not the best, but here is Alex hanging out in his crib one morning fascinating himself with his feet.

As mentioned in a prior post, Olivia now sleeps on her belly most nights. And she even scoots around her crib while sleeping. We decided to take the bumpers out of her crib in fear that she would push her face up against the bumper and would not be able to breathe. However with removing the bumpers comes consequences.....she flings her pacifier out of the crib (I once found it underneath the middle of the crib), and she gets her limbs stuck in between the crib rails (check out her feet below).

Olivia has also developed the habit where she likes to sleep with her butt up in the air. Ben and I are constantly discussing how it just does not seem like a comfortable position.

Finally, the kids have started taking a liking to Dudley. When Ben plays fetch with Dudley, the kids watch Dudley and laugh at the whole process. And as of late, Olivia has started to reach out for Dudley and try to pet him. Unfortunately, we don't have any pictures or videos of this yet, but stay tuned!