Firsts... and lasts...

Olivia's cries are already changing... she is about 7 weeks old now. Instead of the 'Ah-wah Ah-wah' cries, she has a hungry cry and an "I'm warning you" cry... she even has one that covers everything else. She has begun cooing now and she had her first smile on the 5th of July. She smiled for my aunt LeeAnn. My parents were here last week. We went to Ikea and my dad was carrying her. She was watching over his shoulder and saw my mom come up, and she lit up and started smiling at her. In the mornings we play kick mommy and climb mommy mountain. Then we watch out the window and practice standing and bouncing. She loves bouncing and today when I was bouncing her, she started trying to bounce herself - another first. Then we went and took a shower, and she made faces at me and we cooed back and fourth. Yesterday we played in the bath, and she practiced kicking in the water. She used to make this adorable, yet pitiful little face before she began to cry. She pulls her upper lip in and her lower one sticks out and she would make one "Wah" and then do it again. It was heart wrenching, but SO sweet too. She doesn't do it anymore really, and that makes me sad, because I never got a picture of it. She is growing SO fast!