Oliver has really had some big gains in the last 3 weeks. He pretty much eats all solid foods now. Erik and I decided it was time to teach Oliver the word no since he loves to feed Gunner while he eats. So the first attempt at teaching him no, I held down his hand as he was about to throw the food and I told him "No". Oliver just looked at me and threw the food. So when he was about to do it again I grabbed his hand and lighted slapped the top of it and said "No". He responded to this by laughing. So I figured since Erik and I never yell or raise our voice I would raise my voice when I said "No". Well boy did this work. Oliver was a blubbering mess. I don't know who felt worse me or him. I have been working for 10 months to keep him from crying and now I'm making him cry. It's heartbreaking but in a sense nessary. So later that day I put Oliver in his jumperoo and Erik said to Oliver, "On your marks. Get set. Go!" Well GO sounds like NO and we had a blubbering mess of a child again. Long story short, he knows what the word no means now.
Oliver is off and crawling these days and is everywhere and into everything. He also finds the stairs a fun place to play. The word no and lots of tears happen on those stairs now. He also loves to crawl over to the bookshelf and pull off his books and flip and babble through them.
Oliver has also graduated to a new carseat. He started to become like a stuffed sausage in his old one so it was time to move on. We have to still face him backwards until he is a year old but at least he has more room. It's hard to believe it has been 10 months since he was born. It's sure amazing to see how much he has grown and changed in such a short amount of time. It's hard to think of what he will be doing in another 10 months.
