Babies . . .Babies. . . and more Babies!!

Hello again! Well, Olivia turned 5 months old this past friday! Can you believe it! Anyway, Grant and I took some time off to have a long weekend to maybe go up to the mountains, but the weather was pretty bad so we decided to go up to Lenoir to surprise his family for his cousin's 3rd birthday party. It was really fun to see everyone again - there were 4 babies born on that side of the family just this year! Here are all the babies:
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Left to Right: Paula holding Gracie (2) and Sawyer (10 months); Sasha holding Karlee (12 weeks); Becca holding Drew (9 months), Me holding Olivia (5 months) and Jason in the back holding Triston (3) the birthday boy!

Here's Becca and I with the baby cousins, Drew and Olivia:

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And Nana with Olivia:
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We had a lot of fun hanging out with everyone, but unfortunately, I think Olivia must have gotten a cold from one of her cousins because she has turned up sick. Poor little thing has a runny nose and the sneezies - her first cold! Oh- well, babies will be babies and share their germs with each other. No big deal, she'll be fine. She still acts just as happy as always, just with a runny nose now.

Here are a couple of funny pics of Olivia. Grant was playing with her on her little blanket before we left town Saturday morning and all of a sudden Olivia just fell asleep mid-play. How funny!
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We also did quite a bit of shopping this weekend. We had a big coupon for gap this weekend and did some shopping for us, and a lot for baby - we couldn't help ourselves! Here she is in her new baby gap sweater. Isn't it adorable:
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She looks like a little elf with that hood! Such a fashion-ista!

We also took some cute videos of Olivia that we wanted to show you all. The first is of baby beating up her daddy. It is pretty funny - she is really letting him have it.
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Here is a video we took tonight of her playing and having a good old time. She's so happy and smiley these days. It is getting more and more fun with her.
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This last video is an update for you all to see her progress with sitting. She has been working on sitting and has been pretty good about staying up if you put her in position by using her hands to support herself. But this video shows that she can now start to not have to use her hands to support herself and still stay sitting for a bit. She still falls over here and there, but she is making great progress.
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We also went over to Randy and Sara's (though Sara wasn't home) to visit with them Friday night after our shopping spree, to hang out for a bit. I had a great time hanging out with the girls (Gracie and Olivia). They are getting to where they can interact more and more and Olivia is starting to catch up to Gracie in size, too! Gracie is sooo mobile now, she crawls and cruises everywhere and can stand up in the middle of the room for quite a while.

Well, I got Randy to take a couple pictures of me holding the girls. This first one came out pretty cute and they were doing really well:

.Then . . . Olivia scratched Gracie . . . Gracie started crying . . . then Olivia started crying because Gracie was crying . . . oh my goodness!!!

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Well, that's about all for now. I hope you enjoyed the new pictures and videos of the little one. I can't believe she is already 5 months old! Wow, time does fly! Until next time, have fun!