Firstly, it seemed like she would be slithering on her belly. But it somehow didn’t impress her and she began to crawl. And after a week, when I thought she would crawl faster and I’d chase her around the house, she began to stand up (she is a bit in a hurry, isn’t she?). When she is very interested in something she can get to it very quickly, but she has more fun with searching for things that help her to stand up.
Holidays finished and all our activities started again. Today we learned to jump/fall into the water and to swim with a swimming board. Olivia crawls nicely and moves quickly where she wants, especially when she is interested in something (like the laundry basket or slippers). We also started course for children. For the first hour, we took daddy with us to conclude his parental leave. In July, Olivia was one of the last ones, who began to rolled over and now she was the only one (except the one month older baby boy) on her knees and she crawled among the other children and put everything what she found into her mouth.
Last two weeks, we were really active and we took advantage of the last summer days. Beside swimming and crawling in the grass on the hill behind our house, we went to see animals in the forest. Olivia looked at a family of a wild boar and deer and then she looked up and watched trees. And then we traveled toward grandparents. Olivia gained allattention and she started eating incredibly lot.
Olivia managed another growth spurt (together with us). From what I read, we bore this quite well. She didn’t lose her appetite, quite the opposite. She didn’t cry too much, just started to realise the distances and occasionally gurgled, when she saw me going away from the room. But she slept less. In the evening, she always woke up after one hour of sleeping full of energy and ready to play.
Our little baby already weights 7kg. She smiles a lot and watches all carefully. When she hears me but doesn’t see me, she raises her head high and looks at where I am. Then when I suddenly peek out from behind the door she smiles from ear to ear. We taught her to blow, so now we can hear ppfff and fffuuu from the crib and when I look at her she is smiling at me with a questioning look in her eyes and four fingers in the mouth.
Last week, we travelled with Olivia abroad for the first time. She was doing very well. She slept, played a bit, we had a little break on a blanket under the trees as well, just at the end she had enough, but so did all of us. We all dreamed about a cold shower. I was only worried whether this trip does not disturb her sleeping, but she slept even better than at home.
Olivia began to roll on her belly a week ago. After an intensive weekend training with her grandfather and grandmother, she didn’t do anything else just tried to roll over and she was angry when it didn’t work. The next day she was rolling over and over on both sides. Rolling back to her back is more difficult, we train it but she rather falls than consciously rolls back. Basically it doesn’t matter, Olivia likes to be on her belly.
We celebrated the Olivia’s firstname day. On her behalf, thank you for all the congratulations. She spent the morning playing with her peers (they talked with their own language, they pulled and sucked together one long chain and some of them already were able to roll and the other watched them with interest :)) In the afternoon, she played at home. Andrej brought her wooden baby gym and she was really happy about it.
Our little one already weights 6110 grams and so she more than doubled her weight, which she had at birth. She began to play with her feet and clap them. Previously, she already managed to turn on her side, but that was more or less by accident. Now, she is trying it consciously and when she fails, she is angry with herself. The result of her effort is that she rotates around her own head in a circle.
We complained that it’s raining and cold and so on Wednesday it was suddenly about 15 degrees warmer and the sun is burning and we can only go out in the evening. But the great is that we don’t have to dress Olivia so much, she just needs to get used to the higher temperature. So far she only drinks a lot and is tired of it. Since Monday, she has been having fun lying on her belly again and so we encourage her to rotate.