My adventurous Olivia

Olivia and I started using the backpack carrier that Heather gave us for walking since it doesn't put so much forward pressure on my shoulders. I am thinking about alternating between the bjorn and this so that they pull equally forward and back. The bjorn says you can use in until your little one is 26 lbs, but Olivia is feeling pretty heavy to me at about 21 lbs. (We'll see tomorrow at her 9-month appointment!)



Just in the past few day, Olivia has become my little adventurer in our great room. I'll put her on the floor to put away dishes, and she crawls from the kitchen through the dining room, over to the front door, into the living room carpet, and then back into the kitchen through the breakfast nook. She has lots of stops on the way to pull herself up, check out toys, and stop to sit if she needs a break. I keep my eye on her between dishes. Here she is crawling underneath the bar stools back into the kitchen. I'm so proud of her for doing this since it wasn't very long ago that she cried when I left the room.