little monster!

on saturday morning liz, jenny and i went shopping at the medford outlet mall!! lots of really good deals on super cute clothes! i think i bought 5x more than oliver really needed!!
here are one of the pajamas i bought for him...little monster jammies!

in size 18 months too!! i can't believe it...they fit pretty darn well! and i have to admit that i didn't wash them first...i didn't have any clean jammies for him to wear...so i just pulled these out of the bag and put them on him. so after they are washed i'm sure they will shrink a bit too!

he looooves playing with his toes! lay him on the floor or try to change his diaper...and his toes go up and his little hands grab them! even at 5 in the morning when he wakes for a little snack...i change his diaper first and with his eyes closed still his little leggies go up and his little fingers grab a hold of his toes!! silly little monster!

ollie

just chillin' with mom in his bedroom while brandon and patty were recording songs in the livingroom. only wearing his cloth diaper...the best way to be!! such a serious little guy!!

just me and my monkey

lil' ankeny

his shirt finally fits him!! while i was still preggers with ollie, i bought a little onesie for him that says, "i'm a lil' ankeny"!! super cute!! we were in ankeny, iowa...and i had to buy him something that said our last name!! if you look close enough it really says "ankeny hawks" for their town sports team...but, hey, it says our last name!! cool beans!

sitting up all by himself!! he's getting sooo good at this!

a little drool monster!!

great-grandchildren

For Makayla's baptism all of the great-grandchildren were together...so we had to get a photo of everyone with grandma lois.

david, oliver, makayla and samantha

Makayla's Baptism...

Last Sunday was Makayla's Baptism.
Very beautiful and sweet!

Brent, Chrissy and Makayla

Godparents: Bryan and Theresa
Brent, Chrissy and Makayla

Makayla really wanted some of that tasty cake!!

super cute cake!

toes...

Oliver has found his toes! He loves to lean over while sitting up and grabbing at his toes! And when he is laying on the floor he loves to pull his leggies up play with his toes!
so sweet!

learning new things...

Often at work i will give Oliver a drink of water from my cup...mostly because he is grabbing for my cup!! He loves drinking from the cup...yes, most of the water winds up coming back out and running down his chin! but he does drink a little bit!! So, tonight after dinner i put a little water in his sippy cup and gave it to him! Well, first i attempted to hold onto the cup and help him drink from it...but his little hands were all over the cup and he wanted to hold it!! He did alright with it! He managed to put it in his mouth...but it flowed waaay too fast for him and he wound up choking over it a couple of times! And the majority of the water was soaked up by his shirt!!

His new way to hold his mouth!!

Sippy cup going up...

and out...

look how wet his shirt is!!
but he had fun!!

oh, my!

well, brandon found a way to be on the computer while watching oliver!! i walked into the living room the other day and found oliver sitting on brandon's shoulders!! super cute!! he was having so much fun just sitting up there watching the computer screen! a new angle to the screen perhaps?? ollie is growing up sooo fast!! he's looking so much older than he really is!

food!!

PEAS!!

YUM!!

my sleeping babe

for ollie's naps while we are at work...i have been laying him on the floor-model beds! not the most ideal place for him to take a nap...but he won't sleep in his pack-n-play lately! he sleeps on the bed that is closest to the frame shoppe's wall...so i can just peek over to check on him! i took this photo the other day...i thought he was sooo cute...his lips were sticking up funny like because he was laying on his arm! (i usually have him laying on a blanket...but my preggo brain has not gone away, in fact i believe it has become worse!! so...i had forgotten to bring a blanket that day!)

my little sleeping angel

who's that other little boy in the mirror??

this is how i found brandon and oliver when i came home from a photo shoot last night. i think brandon was desperate to make oliver stop crying after he woke up from his nap...so he took the mirror off the wall from the entryway and leaned it up against the couch. oliver was having fun looking at himself and daddy in the mirror! oliver would push himself up, look at himself and start to smile!!
he must think he looks funny i guess!!

yes, brandon is really getting into playing with oliver...making silly faces in the mirror too!!

i forgot to add this photo to the last post...
here is oliver just staring at the stage watching the lights and listening to the band!!
he's such a cutie (i can say that...right?!)

saturday night's concert

on saturday night we all went over to houston to listen to the red lipstick band! a long drive...but it went alright...oliver slept for awhile and was super good! the band did an awesome job singing...brandon did a great job with his two songs too!! after brandon's songs oliver cheered "yeah...daddy!!"

a fun night!

little smiley guy

two evening ago i took these photos of little oliver just smiling away! most of the time when i get the camera out he puts on the most sober looking faces!! well, this time he decided he would actually smile!!

what a silly little man...he has changed sooo much in the past couple of weeks...it's been fun to watch him sprout!

little guitar playing man

a couple of night ago brandon and oliver were playing guitar together...here is oliver's turn at the guitar!! sure made brandon smile when ollie put his hand on the guitar like this all by himself!!

ollie and his pod

yesterday ollie and i went to fairmont to buy a larger size of diapers...and while shopping at shopko...we found this cute little "bebe pod". we had been looking at one online...but decided to buy this one in town! and ollie loves it!! super soft and helpes him sit up and see the world!

brandon polishing his truck tires...ollie watching (and playing with his book!)

love this shot!