Year One Look Alike Contest

It's been a year and out come our old baby pictures for a year one look alike contest. So compare Erik's and my year one pictures with Oliver's and vote on who you think it is.

Oliver

                 Erik- 1 Year                                                                              Heidi- 1 Year

Happy Birthday Oliver!

We'll a year has passed and of course it is hard to believe. On Oliver's birthday Erik and I talked about the day Oliver came into the world and it's hard to believe a he has grown so much. He is now 25 pounds and a very tall little man.

We had a small birthday party with close family which was really nice. Oliver was his usual show off self, performing for all the relatives. We tried to give him so cake but he wasn't very interested. He would rather have some blackberries and raspberries. I guess that's a good thing.

Oliver is really close to walking and has added several words to his vocabulary. His new words are truck, tractor, ball, and maa (When you ask him sound a cow makes or he sees a cow). Oliver is able to understand most of what we tell him. Yesterday Erik had his feet kicked up in the recliner and Oliver stood up next to them and I said tickle tickle. Oliver sits down on the floor and starts tickling his own feet. It was the cutest thing I have ever seen.

Happy Easter!

The Little Man

Oliver sure likes to keep himself busy. He loves to lean up against the windows and check out what is going on outside. Erik was out doing some yard work and Oliver was glued to the patio doors watching Erik walk back and forth across the yard. Every once and a while Erik would pop out behind the Blue Spruce tree in our yard and made laugh with delight.

 Oliver is going to be one next weekend and he is sure becoming a little man.Today was his first experience with spaghetti and boy did he love it. The picture above is of the beginning stage and the following pictures are the aftermath. I had to take him straight up stairs and to the bath but boy did we both have fun in the process.

The Busy Little Man

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.

Happy Valentine's Day

                                                     Happy Valentine's Day everyone.

Weekends With Oliver

I always look forward to weekends for multiple reasons but spending time with Oliver is on top of the list. Erik and I soak up all the time we can with Oliver and take in all the little gains he is making. I have went  into Oliver's nursery lately and found him sleeping on his side and stomach! This is a definite growth but it leads to diaper leakage issues. :) I can point the wiener down every night but he still wakes up in the middle of the night wet. Erik and I are now looking into nighttime diapers which hopefully will solve the leakage issue.

Oliver also loves to stand and play with some of his toys. He will play with his Incrediblocks toy and watch the blocks spin around on the turn table and then he experiments with all the little attachments and of course tries to eat everything.

We read to Oliver during the day and every night. I guess it's the teacher in me that knows how important that is to the learning of little ones.  Now Oliver  hauls books around the house and flips through the pages and babbles to himself. It's too cute.