Olivia started sitting up over Christmas break. That's her rain stick that Uncle Paul gave her. She loves it.. when she doesn't bop herself on the head with it. 

Ah... someday she, too, will live in the small, un-air-conditioned, wonderfully odd-shapped Gerig Hall. Look out, Lounge, here she comes! 

This is Olivia's first day in cloth diapers. (We couldn't afford both Pampers and food... something had to go!)

edit: Josh wanted me to clarify here - the above statement is an exaggeration. We are not starving. :) 

Olivia has learned a new trick! She sucks in both her lips and and makes a smacking noise! (We call them kisses). 

Kisses!! 

Eating just got messier... Did we mention she has TWO teeth now? (On the bottom). 

Party on Uncle Noah's head! 

Olivia's favorite present. Isn't she cute in her Christmas dress? 

This is her first Christmas morning. She's even wearing Christmas pajamas. Doesn't she look so genuinely grateful? Thank you Auntie Sassa! 

Crazy baby! That's not how you're supposed to sit in the bathtub! 

Yummy rice cereal! (Actually, she doesn't like it as much as this picture makes it seem). 

Olivia learns to play Eukre. Or is she teaching Great-Aunt Susie? 

We gave Olivia a practice Christmas present to see if she's ready for her December 25th performance. Oh boy, was she ever! 

The package somehow leaped to a new location. Confused, Olivia paused briefly for redirection.  

She's learned to use her most developed tool to her advantage here. 

But she eventually gave in to Daddy's insistance that society will one day expect her to operate this way. 

These pictures really don't do her justice. You can't see the fury with which she is working here. 

"At last! I've freed the wrapping paper! Now I can eat it." 

Special delivery! Actually, the postage would have cost a fortune. So we decided to keep her. 

Olivia's first 'real' food. She had a love/hate relationship with it. She would have loved it... had she not hated it.