We had an epic day...

with taking videos. Livy was at her best for performing today and so out came the camera time and again to catch her in action.

Here she is dancing.



Playing with the Receiver - at least the knobs she can reach...



Here's a clip of Livy signing away (with a bit of encouragement from myself and Livy's cousin).

A few more pics of the Bug

Here's a few more pictures of Livy. She's growing and getting more adventurous - taking the odd unassisted step (though not even close to walking) but she is pushing her boundaries and as of a couple of days ago she's back to standing (voluntarily rather than mommy making her) on her own unassisted.

Here she is being daring. She climbed on her bike backwards the other day and though my first instinct was to get her off before the bike took off from underneath her, my second thought was to grab the camera to get a shot because its hard to believe she was able to climb on the bike (backwards nonetheless) without it rolling out from under her. By the time we got the camera ready she was already trying to dismount.























Here's a few more shots of the new set of teeth (making our lives more of a challenge as Livy decides to bite everything to test them out). She tries to bit our hands/arms while we're changing her, bites when she's feeding and bites our legs when she's roaming around. Her new name - Chomper.

























She's also doing this tongue thing (finally caught on camera) where she sticks her tongue off to the side in what we're only guessing is a spot where her new sharp little teeth aren't scratching it. Its somewhat disturbing to watch her crawling around with her tongue hanging off to the side for so long.
























Here's a pic of Livy and Daddy hanging out way past little Livy's bedtime.

























Here's Livy in her "little" outfit made by her auntie Heather...it finally fits and is one of the few pants she has that are big enough for her to crawl around it. Yes, our 23 lb'r stretches the limits of her 18 month clothes and she doesn't fit jeans/pants too well so usually she's limited to wearing dresses with leggings (and even the 18 m leggings look too small).

A few more videos & pics

Here are a couple more videos and photos of the Bug.

Here's the teeth shot (finally) and at least now, a few days after they broke through, you can actually see the teeth.














With mine and Dwayne's genes Livy is predispose to wearing glasses. Here she is trying on Grandma Val's glasses. She does look smarter.













This video of her standing was taken at the beginning of the month (~May 4th). Livy had been balancing on her own for a couple days when we finally got around to getting the camera out (and realizing it wasn't a fluke). She still doesn't like to be "forced" to stand but will do it voluntarily every once in a while. Still, I think its going to be another couple of months before we have to worry about her walking.



Here's a video of the Bug doing her farting noises (and a little bit of assisted walking) again, taken around May 5th or so. Sorry, its a long one.

These are a few of my favourite things...

A few more tidbits to share. Both pictures and stories.

- Livy is walking with a walker now. When she's not on her 'matt' area she has to wear a helmet. She's pretty good about it but only lasts about 10 minutes before she's done with it. We have video too that we'll put up.






















- Livy is sticking her tongue out and blowing making farting noises. Super cute on a 9 month old...hopefully she'll grow out of it before she's 10 (I think I can put up with it for that long...).

















- she's also biting. With her new 5 teeth its rather painful...cute (the little monster that she is) but painful - she thinks its funny (that and pulling my hair). She'll go for the collar bone, knee, arm but her favourite place is the chin.

- Livy's dancing has improved (or at least it now looks like she's dancing). I've been slow to get a video of it but we have a short clip or two before she begins 'touring'.




















- When I feed Livy soup, if a little bit dribbles on her chin she will take her hand and try to shove the rest of it in her mouth. While her efforts are commendable, it makes for rather messy dinner time. Still, the little bug is learning and growing and while this trivial piece of information may seem unimportant to you, its one of the many things that keeps me laughing so I'm writing it down so that I won't forget it years from now.

Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear...

A few more sleepy nights - a few more teeth. 3 of them to be exact.

Two days ago I noticed that Livy's top left tooth had broken through (we had been waiting and watching it for quite a while) and today I noticed that two more to the right of it had broken through as well.

So as of today, Livy has 5. Count em, 1-2-3-4-5 teeth!!

Some of the other fun things that Livy has done over the last 3 weeks include:
- playing peek-a-boo (she'll use blankets, curtains and cover her own head and poke her head out. She has the "duhhhhaaa" part down but not the "peek-a-boo" part quite yet.
- she can move on her Pukylind bike (not very far and not very well but she's got some forward motion figured out).
- she can stand on her own and sit down unassisted (she's doesn't like standing on her own too much as it requires her focus and balance).

Here's a few photos taken waaayyy back in April. Teeth pictures to come when we can get her to open her mouth long enough.

Too cute for words.














Livy hanging on her "second" bike. This one fit her first though (only now she's only allowed on when she's wearing her helmet).



















Goofy Girl








































Daddy's version of putting Livy to bed....nuff said.














Trying to figure out why babies smell so good (most of the time).