Winter weather in Summer!

Olive is already a Seattle baby.  She's either bundled up:

Or wearing practically nothing at all:

It seems like there's barely been anything between those two extremes this summer! 

Somebody's smiling!

Exactly 1 week ago, I came downstairs to greet our little girl and she smiled at me for the very first time.  It melted my heart.  Since then, the smiles have been few and far between.  There was this attempt to capture a smile, which resulted in 2 yawns, a sneeze, and case of the hiccups:

Later in the week, I managed to capture this brief smile followed quickly by a little girl bored with the sound of her mom's annoying voice (smile happens about around the 40 second mark):

But this morning was a totally different story!  Olive was a smile machine!  She smiled at me, she smiled at her Dad, she smiled at the little woodland creatures hanging from her bouncy chair, she smiled at the air.  The bummer for you is that you'll have to trust me on this one since I decided to live in the moment and not take any photos. 

Bath time!

Olive loves bath time!  We've only been giving her a submersion bath about once a week but we might have to start doing it more often because she loves it!  Unfortunately, Olive has a bad case of infant acne right now.  I've been obsessively smearing her face with breast milk.  Did you know breastmilk is like the ultimate panacea?  Acne?  Check.  Eye infection?  Check.  Stuffy nose?  Check!  Matt and I keep laughing about how it's slightly cruel that we're rubbing her food all over her face! 

Growing and Changing

Olive is changing every single day.  She already looks so different than she did just last week!  She's making much better eye contact and sometimes I think she's getting ready to smile at me (so far, no cigar though).  These little changes are so rewarding!