14 and a Half Months because Mama's Lazy

Well my little nugget....you are now 14 months and 2 weeks old.  It's still hard for me to believe that you are 1!!  One whole big year old.  And seriously kid...you crack us the hell up!  I know I'm your mom but you might be the cutest 14 month and 2 week old I've ever known!!!  

You finally have more than 2 teeth!!!  You have 3!!!  And a half maybe.  I'm pretty sure I see that other top toofer coming in.  You are a little behind on the teeth growing thing but I'm cool with that because I feel like once you get more I'm going to get the shit bitten out of me.  Just don't do what your sister did and chomp a chunk of my leg out!  That was so not cool.

 You are still a great eater and Dad and I have decided that you are your father's daughter!  If you are hungry and don't eat you turn into a giant monster crabby asshole.....just like your Dad!  You will stand in the kitchen and pretty much yank my pants down until I feed you.  You scream and stand at your chair in the hopes that someone will put you in it and there will be food waiting for you!  And on the other hand you are your mother's child too.....you are a fantastically wonderful little mooch!  You see someone with food and you are on that shit!  You love love love fruit, watermelon, strawberries and cherries are your favorite.  There isn't too much you won't eat and if you don't like it it comes shooting out of your mouth quite quickly!

You and your sister have the most amazing heart warming bond that I forever hoped for!  It is so much fun to watch the two of you together.  You are getting to be such a big girl and try so hard to keep up with the big kids and Mia is very good about including you...most of the time.  The two of you can make each other laugh and cry but it's all good!  There will be many moments like that because unfortunately kid you are the little sister and tend to piss your big sister off sometimes.  Especially since the whole hair pulling has starting.  That shits not cool little one....it hurts!! Bad!!!

 You are obsessed with digging in the pantry and pulling out anything and everything which goes back to you loving some food!  It's a disaster in there and I'm just not bothering with trying to keep it organized because the second I do it will be all over the floor again.  Pretty much any cabinet in the kitchen has been destroyed by you and is a complete mess but whatever!

You have the most hearty little laugh and raspy voice like your sister.  And I could listen to it for hours. Your babble is hilarious and it almost makes me a little sad that words are soon to come.  You say mama, dada, nana (this word pertains to a ton of things) and baba.  You don't have a ton of words but you know what things are when we ask for it.  Especially blankie!  You love your blankies!  Like Love Love Love your blankies!

You love being outside and running around in your bare feet!  It's so cute to watch you with all the neighbor kids and how you try so hard to keep up.  You eat dirt and rocks and I just wish you would stop putting so much shit in your mouth!!!  Like seriously....STOP!!!  It's gross and I don't want to keep digging shit out of there!

 Your hair is finally getting long enough for me to put in little midget ponies!!!  And it's damn adorable!  It works to keep the whispies out of your eyes!  Plus if I tried barrettes you would just yank those damn things out!  So ponies it is!

You've grown out of the lots of snuggling stage so when you do decide to crawl up and sit on my lap I take it all in and let you sit as long as you like!  You are still a mama's girl which I love.  Although one of the cutest things to see is your excitement when Dad gets home from work.  Mia and you both scream and run to him.  You have so much to say to him when he gets home and I know that he loves it as much as I love to watch it.  You've also started to back your little butt up into our laps when we are sitting on the floor and you usually start backing up like 4 feet away!  Kinda cute....just saying!

Now that you've started sleeping thru the night you are a pretty awesome sleeper.  It's never a struggle to put you up for your naps or bedtime.  You get yourself to sleep and it's fricken wonderful!!!  Bed time is usually about 8:30.  Wish it was a little earlier but when we did that you were getting up at like 5:30 in the AM and that was not cool with me.  You now get up anywhere between 6:30 and 7 on a typical morning which isn't horrible! You still have 2 naps a day which is great for me!  I'm just not ready to give up that second nap yet.  Mama needs you to take 2 naps!!!  Now if only we could talk your sister into napping!

Besides your sister, Carter and Ella are your two most favorite peoples!  You get so excited to see them and I know that they love it!  Elle takes extra special care of you!  I think she likes taking on that mama roll since she is the baby too!  It's still a little hard for you to keep up and play but I give you another year and you'll be giving them a run for their money!  

So sweet girl.....you are getting too big too fast and I want you to just stop...stop it right now!  You crack me up on a daily basis and although there are times I want to rip my damn hair out I really don't know what I'd do without you.  It's hard to remember what life was like before you and your sister.  All I want is to be the best mom I can be because Lovey, you deserve the world and so much more.  I know you are going to do great things and I love that I get a front row seat to watch it all!!!  Love you to the moon and back and then some!!!

The 13th Month

You my sweet dear are already past 1 and into this next month.  It amazes me how so much can happen  and you can grow so much in just 30 days.  

It's been a busy month with birthdays and celebrations and family get togethers and cabin trips and 4th of July celebrations and so much stuff that mom can't keep up with it all!

You are becoming quite the walker!  You still look like a little mini Frankie but it's so dang cute how you balance yourself with both arms sticking out at the sides and you run!  Run.Run.Run with your little flat feet!  Now mom just needs to start putting shoes on you more regularly so you really don't end up with flat feet!  You are like me though and would much prefer to run around barefoot!

We went up to Al and Roxie's cabin a few weekends ago and it was your first road trip!  Actually I think it might have been Mia's first road trip too!  You both did really well with the drive.  I would say the last half hour each way you got a little antsy but being stuck in the truck for 2 and a half hours makes anyone antsy!  We actually hauled our boat up so you got to experience your first boat rides.  You loved the ride.....hated your life jacket!  Which again I can totally understand since you could barely stand correctly because you were so top heavy!  I will say you looked mighty cute!

You still have not gotten any more teeth!  The only ones showing are your two bottom two!  I know your sister was later in getting hers but I think you've surpassed that!  I'm figuring any day now so lets see some more of your little toofers!

You my love have finally figured out the joys of not waking in the night!!!  Yay for mommy and daddy!!!  Although the alternative to that is you now find it necessary to wake anywhere in between 6 and 6:30.  IN.THE.AM!!!  What the hell kid!?!? I'm grateful for the nights and not waking up but come on dude......6 in the AM?!  I guess I'll have to compromise!

You're babbling cracks me up!!  Like seriously....I could listen to you all day long....except for 6 in the AM when I wish you would be sleeping!!  You have this way of enunciating your "words" and sounds and your facial expressions and how your jaw moves is wonderful and hilarious and I don't ever want it to stop!!  I try to record it as much as I can because I know that in no time you will be saying real words and whining and sassing like your big sister and I want to hold on to the innocence and cuteness before I want to chuck you into the other room!!

You are busy! Busy.Busy.Busy!!!  You pretty much refuse to snuggle with me anymore unless you have your bottle and blankie and even then it doesn't last long!  I miss the snuggles!  I can't wait for you to hopefully get back to the sitting and snuggling stage!  I'm holding onto hope cuz your sister went thru the same thing and she's once again an excellent snuggler!!!  So Liv, come back to your snuggling ways, will ya?!

Bath time for you is still bath time for everyone else!  You are crazy and splash and try to do everything your sister does even putting your face in the water!  MMMM....yum....dirty bath water!

You are getting better at catching up with the big kids but you are still such a peanut that it's hard.  They will play with you for a few minutes but then they are off and leave you wondering what the hell just happened and where did they go?!  It's ok Love, soon you will be right beside them causing all the trouble in the world!  But for now I'm happy to keep you by me!

You still are an excellent eater!  I don't think there is much we've put in front of you that you won't eat. Although fruits are your favorite!  You can take down some strawberries, watermelon and cantelope!!! Like take down!  You are your mother's child and are a complete mooch!!  Everybody else's food always looks better than your own and if you see someone eating something or with a plate or a bowl you are up their ass in 2.2!

You still find it necessary to say "Dada" more than "Mama"?!  Not really sure what the hell that's all about since I'M WITH YOU 24/7, ALL DAY, EVERY DAY!! I mean come on kid?!  Give mama a little credit here and say my damn name!!  Just like once a day will be fine!!  Just once!!

You, my little love, have proven to be quite the little character and I love watching you grow and develop and gain your independence and play with your sister and giggle and babble and all of the wonderful things you do on  a daily basis!  I wish I could bottle you up and make you stay like this a little bit longer but knowing I can't I'll just keep cherishing you every day and cheer you on as you grow more and more into this whole little wonderful person!!!  Love you Livy Girl!!  Til next month!

My Baby Girl is 1!!

One June 6th, 2013, you my sweet baby girl, turned a whole 1 year old!  What.The.Hell!!??  I will admit that I had a little bit of a hard time with this one.  You are our last and our baby and this past year has just gone by in a flash.  I wish I could slow it all down but I know I can't so I'm trying to hold on to whatever I can when I can.

I feel like so much has happened this past month.  You are this whole little human person who walks/tries to run, babbles constantly and laughs with all your tiny little being!

You are quite the little peanut!  At your 1 year check up you weighed in at 19 pounds and 3 ounces which I think might be almost 2 pounds smaller than your sister was at this age and even she was a peanut!  And you are 29 inches long!  You checked out perfect at your appointment!!

You are such a happy girl in the mornings and I love hearing you babble away in your room!  You usually yell for Dada which completely confuses me because I'm the one home with you all day!  I'm the one that feeds you and changes your shitty diapers during the day.....one would think you'd call for me?!  I'll remember that kid!!  

You have attempted the whole sleeping thru the night thing.  You aren't quite there yet on a nightly basis but we've made some improvements.  But Kid....speed this up, will ya?!  

You are a straight up walking machine now!!  For a few weeks you were consistent with taking a few steps here and there and we could tell how badly you wanted to go further because once you took those first 2 steps you tried running and then it all went downhill from there!  But while Daddy was in Canada the first weekend in June you decided you were ready and took off like a bat out of hell and haven't slowed down since!  You think since you've turned into this total bad ass walker you can now run!  Well....you can't!!!  Slow down dude!!! Slow down!  I will say one of the cutest things to witness is a new walker!  Your Antie calls you Frankie because you walk around like a little Frankenstein.  I think you just look drunk!

We have finished with the formula and have moved onto whole milk which is quite the little person milestone!  You are a great eater!  You are like mama and a total mooch!  You LOVE fruit especially strawberries and melon.  I honestly don't think there is much we've given you that you won't eat.  I hope this stays the case because it really does make life so much easier when you'll eat what we eat!  

You've also learned how to drink out of a straw and think yourself to be damn funny!  Because along with learning how to drink out of it you've also started doing what your sister used to do and that's spit it right back out!  And apparently that shit is hilarious in little people world!

You are obsessed with climbing up onto Everything!!!  You've figured out how to get yourself up on the couch and when you can't quite make it you get super frustrated and scream like a dinosaur until someone helps you and then all is right in your world again.  You manage you sneaky little ass up onto the ottoman by way of floor poof.....then you stand and laugh because you know you aren't supposed to be up there.  But apparently second born children don't really give a shit what you tell them....you do what you want!

You are a very serious little lady when you are around people you aren't familiar with.  Everyone always comments about how serious you are.  I don't think your serious I think you are cautious and just assessing your situation which is good Liv.  You assess your heart out!  Because in reality you aren't serious.....you are a crazy, hilarious, fun spirited little lady.
And by about 7 at night it turns into the witching hour around the Westbrock house.  You and your sister literally go bat shit crazy!!!  And not in a bad way at all.....I love it!  You two laugh and talk and play and laugh some more and run around and laugh even more!  I could listen to the two of you laughing all day long.  I want to always remember that sound.  I want to bottle it up and never ever forget it.

You are going thru a little bit of the whole stranger anxiety thing with is ok.  It's mostly strange men that you are leery of...which is ok kid....I'm leery of strange men too!!!  There are pretty much 3 guys you go to....Dad, Uncle Joe and my Dad.  Everyone else gets the stare down for quite some time.  You are usually good after a little while but you still make sure that we are in your eye sight!

You are definitely completely in love with your sister.  You want to always be by her and doing what she's doing.  And unfortunately kiddo I think you are starting to reach that annoying little sister stage.  I know all you want to do is play with the big kids and usually they let you and when they don't I will always be here to play with.  Just remember that and remember that just because they don't always include you doesn't me they don't completely adore you.  Because you truly are that adorable!!!

You love being outside!  And by far your most favorite thing to do is go for walks!  It's the one time that you don't hate being restrained!  You sit back in your seat with your feet up and just take it all in!  Sometimes you babble other times you just sit and chill!

You are extremely ticklish and daddy can get you going just looking at you!  Like I said before I could listen to you laugh for hours and hours!  It really never gets old!  

You love bath time and bath time for you usually means bath time for mommy and daddy!  You splash....A.LOT!!!!  But that's ok....you have fun and it is quite funny!  

My beautiful baby girl....it has been an amazing year!  When you entered this world so very early on that Wednesday morning I could never have imagined how much you would change our lives.  I knew I would love you but I couldn't begin to imagine just how much, I knew you would change things but I didn't realize that things would be so much better, I knew you and your sister would have a bond but I didn't realize that it would be so strong so soon and all along I knew there was something missing from me and I quickly found out that that something was you!!!  You have filled all of those missing parts of our family.  You have made us...US!  You, my baby girl, are a beautiful one of a kind whole little person that we could not imagine our days without!  Happy First Birthday Olivia Rose!!!  Mama loves you to the moon and back!

11 Whole Big Fat Months

It's really hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that I'm only going to have an infant for 1 more month.  You are growing way too fast and maybe it's because you are our baby and our last but holy hell....time does not slow down whatsoever!

* You, My Child, are a fricken riot!  You don't sit still.....like EVER!  You've mastered standing all on your own and are trying so very hard to walk!  The most you've done is about 5 steps but you usually get so damn excited after about 2 steps that you start clapping and then try to run so you pretty much just fling your body down!  It's quite comical yet I can tell super frustrating for you because you just want to go and keep up with your sister!  I'm pretty sure that in a few weeks you will have it down pretty good!  Which in a way I'm excited for because crawling can just be so dirty at times.  Plus with the weather finally getting nice it'll be nice to bring you outside and just let you go!

* You are STILL NOT sleeping thru the night!  I will continue to document this until the glorious day that you decide that sleeping is flipping amazing!  You've pretty much mastered naps which is great but this whole middle of the night shit is getting old for mom and dad!  Figure.It.Out!!!

* You love big people food and feeding yourself!  We still do a little bit of baby food but you've pretty much graduated to what we eat.  And honestly, you are like your sister and will eat pretty much anything.  You love yourself some noodles for sure!  And like your sister you are a food hoarder so we limit how much we put in front of you because you end up looking like a chipmunk with all of your stored food!

* While mom and dad were in Mexico the weather was actually beautiful here and you got your first feel of grass which apparently didn't go over to well.  According to your Nani you were not a fan!  Like not a fan in the sense that you were clinging to whoever for dear life to get you out of the grass.  You've now become used to it and LOVE being outside!  Grass is totally cool now!

* You have a little bit of stranger anxiety and it takes you a little while to warm up to people.  Which is totally fine with me.  I'd rather you be cautious.  Plus I love that you still need me!  Because I know in just a short amount of time you will want nothing to do with me!  So I'll hang on to that for as long as I can.

* Your chatter has reached new heights!  I love listening to you and can't wait for you to start with your words!  We get Mama and Dada and Nana (which I think is Mimi).  You have the same little deep raspy voice like your sister and I love it.  You've also mastered the fake cry which comes out often when you want attention or you don't get something you want.  It's hilarious!

* At 11 months you weigh 18 pounds and 6 ounces.  You are our little peanut!  You are still in 9 month clothes slowly getting into some 12 month stuff.

* You are obsessed with the iPad!  Actually you are obsessed with most things that you shouldn't be playing with.  And remember that fake cry we were talking about....well that usually shows up when I take said things away from you.  It wouldn't be so bad but instead of playing like a sweet little girl you usually just bang the shit out things and try buying things from the app store!

* You love bath time!  Like so much that  you will try to crawl your little ass in before we are ready to put you in.  And usually your bath time means mommy and daddy receive a bath fully clothed!  It's like tidal waves in the tub with you in there!  We are drenched by the time you are done!  But you love and seeing that crazy little smile on your face is worth the flood!

Liv....you bring a light to this family that I can't put into words.  You are our little Lovey and everyday I'm so very thankful and grateful that I get to be your mommy!  It's amazing to be able to see the world thru yours and your sisters eyes!  It makes getting up every day worth everything!  I love you midget!!!

10 Month Old Baby Girl

You my little dear are only 2 short months away from being one whole big year old!  I don't know that I'm quite ready for that yet.  These last 10 months have flown  by way too quickly and it makes me a little bit sad.  I love watching you grow and learn and discover new things but you are my baby and I would really like it to stay that way for a little while longer!  But clearly you don't really care to listen to your mom so why should this be any different?!

* You are crazy!  I mean cray....zee!!!!  I love it!  You have such a personality on you!  One minute you can be the most serious little person just trying to figure out the world and people around you.  You get such a serious look on your face and make no kind of expression whatsoever.  Usually this happens when you've just woken up or your around a lot of people.  And then on the other hand you can be absolutely bat shit crazy!

* You are a chatter!  And your chatter has reached a new level....it's so damn cute!  You can tell you want so badly to talk or say something.  You also like to scream and yell like a damn dinosaur.  Not for any reason except to get our attention or just to hear your own voice.  Don't worry....we've recorded it!!!

* You are fast and into everything!  You've started walking behind your pusher which I'm totally not ready for and you've decided that you now want to just go ahead and stand on your own!  It's not going to be long before you just take off and then god help us all!

* You finally have 2 little bottom toofers!  It feels like it took forever for those bitches to pop up and now they are here so I'm hoping you decide to not be a biter!  All of your babyness is slowly going away.  COME BACK!!!!

* You want so badly to be able to keep up with your sister and Carter and Ella but you're still a little munchkin so it's hard.  But anytime they sit and play with you, you love every minute of it!

* You are still a terrorist and seem to get yourself into everything!  Or under everything. Or on top of everything.  It doesn't really matter.....if you can reach it then it's yours!

* You still DO.NOT.sleep through the night.  I'm thinking it's time you figure out how wonderful sleep really is?!  Don't ya think?  I DO!!!

* You are a beast to change....like literally a beast!  Especially after baths.  It takes two of us to pretty much pin your ass down and wrangle you into your diaper and clothes.  Not cool kid.....just calm down!

* If you are even a little overly tired you tend to go crazy!  It usually happens at night at about 7:30 when the craziness starts!  It's not bad crazy it's fricken crazy crazy!  It's actually quite funny because you and your sister will just roll around on the floor like a couple of lunatics, laughing and flinging your bodies wherever!  Usually it's on top of your dad, which I think is hilarious!

* You are a food mooch!  Anytime you see anyone with food you are on it!  You are eating lots more big people food and you think you are pretty hot shit!  I'm still a freak about choking so I'm not even sure how much you actually taste since the pieces I give you are minuscule but whatever!

* Everything still goes into your mouth!  Like everything!  If it's on the floor you will find it and it will end up in that mouth of yours!

You are starting to become this whole little person way too soon and way too fast!  I know there is nothing that I can do to slow it down.  All I can do is cherish each of your many milestones and accomplishments and hold on to the memories of them because they are just flying by.
I know I say this in every post but you really make this family complete Lovey!  You are a beautiful one of a kind little girl and I love you with all of my heart and soul!  I often look at you and your sister and wonder how I got so lucky and thank God each and every day that he chose me to be your mom.  I would do anything for you and do my best each and every day to be the best mom I can because you deserve the world and nothing but the best!
I love you my beautiful crazy little Love!  Bring on month 11!!!