Give Me Wagon Ride, Dad!

It appears that Olivia has finally gotten her first tooth. For about 4 months I thought she was cutting a tooth on the top, but, low and behold, her first tooth is center, bottom row. The final popping out was pretty anticlimactic compared to the misery she seemed to be in those times we assumed she was upset due to teething pain. Olivia has been spending quite a bit of time outside with me lately. For those of you who haven't seen our house, we have a decent-sized yard that requires a lot of maintenance. Since Yale refuses to do any yard work except mow the lawn, and I was big and pregnant last summer, the yard is in pretty bad shape. In fact, there seems to be more weeds than anything else. So Little O crawls around exploring our yard while I am battling with the dandelions. She really seems to enjoy the breeze, the chirping birds, and especially a whole new multitude of things to put in her mouth. I am thinking I need to get her some sort of mouth guard --maybe attached to a helmet or hat -- that prevents her from putting every disgusting thing she can find in her mouth. Yesterday, she crawled over to me to do one of her periodic check-ins, and she had some black, hard chunk of something in her mouth. At first I thought it was a dried up turd, but after closer examination I was relieved to realize it was just a piece of bark. Olivia has been making great gains in taking steps while holding on to something. She even pushes her wagon/walker around. Yale starts her at one end of the room, the wagon filled with all of her favorite toys. She goes pretty quickly, sometimes half-crawling and half being dragged by the thing, until she runs into something. Then she waits excitedly for her dad to grab while she is still hanging on to the wagon and pull them both backwards back where she can start all over again. Being pulled backward seems to be her favorite part. She has her mouth wide open in anticipation before Yale even gets to her, and then she giggles the whole time he is pulling her. I guess we should get a video of it, because it is quite adorable.