first haircut

a week and a half ago we brought oliver in for his first haircut!! he did super good...he sat in the big chair all by himself for the first half of the haircut. and then he sat on my lap for the second half! he was growing too much of a "mullet" so we had to get that clipped off!! such a big boy!

things i've done today...

Today:

* i got to sleep in!! brandon got up with ollie and i slept in...and i got up with ollie and brandon went back to bed!

* exercised...tried out some new stretches that i found in a Health magazine.

* made lunch for my family

* washed cloth diapers

* finally scrubbed the kitchen floor! no more sticky spots from oatmeal!!

* played with oliver...he's loving little matchbox cars!

* ate a huge amount of peanut butter/chocolate frosting/granola! yummers!

* watched the closing of the olympics...until my husband decided it was too boring!!

* found a new blog i am going to follow... http://elizabethkartchner.blogspot.com/

* found my future camera bag... http://www.etsy.com/shop/bankgrrl . she doesn't have any available right now...but perhaps in the future!!

* figured out a menu for this coming week! and a grocery list!

* i am going to try to blog more often...this is something i need to try to do more often...but we'll see!

* now i'm going to go sit with my hubby and cuddle on the couch!!

goodnight!

learning to play

Oliver has a new love for Brandon's guitar! The guitar has been left on the floor a couple of times and each time Oliver makes his way over to it and starts "playing" a tune! From watching Brandon play guitar, Oliver knows just how to do it...his little fingers go right to the strings and starts making noise! He is just so proud of himself!

He likes to make sure that the guitar is "in tune" by testing it!!

so yummy

so many new things to learn...

too big too fast

This morning, after his morning nap, i found Oliver in his crib (thankfully!)...sitting up trying to chew on the side of his crib rail!! Oh, my goodness!! Of course it looked so cute at that moment because he looked up at me with those cute eyes and smiled!! But a few times he has pulled himself up onto things...so we were very worried that before we know it he will be standing in his crib...and falling over the edge! So tonight Brandon lowered the crib mattress! We had Oliver stand in the crib, just to show how low it is now!! But he was doing so well with standing there...and he has learned how to walk along things too!! He walks along his learning playground...with one of us sitting very close by! He thinks he's a hot shot while he's standing and walking! He is still fairly wobbly on his legs...but he's getting it!! Silly little guy! Just growing up way too fast!!

the grand adventures of little ollie

So, this evening Oliver has learning something new. Brandon was watching Oliver and he yelled for me to come into the bedroom. So i come in the room and where do i see little Oliver...but under the changing table!! Brandon and Oliver had been playing on the floor with a little train and Ollie's basket of socks and shoes...when Oliver decided whatever he saw on the bottom shelf of the changing table looked way too interesting to pass up! So away he went...army-crawling his way to the shelf...and then continued to climb and wound up on the shelf! Just enjoying himself! i am completely amazed at how fast little guy has learned to move! It all started a few days ago when he just took off and began moving forward! Won't be long and he'll be getting into absolutely everything!! (it's just pretty much everything right now!)

he thought about coming to play with the train again...

but then decided that the furnace vent looked way too interesting!

and then proceeded to pull it off the wall! (it wasn't up too good...for some reason!)

and i'm afraid this is only the beginning to a "very" long time of things in the house being torn apart and analyzed!! Oliver is his father's son...that is for certain!

3rd tooth and talk about silly faces!

Last night Oliver was being just so silly...so we took a couple photos of his "new" smile and silly faces! i don't know where on earth he comes up with these faces!! And his new smile...it might be in part of getting new teeth up on top. He has been into grinding his 2 bottom teeth and one upper tooth! Here you can kind of see his new tooth up top! i think the second one might be coming in too!

bath time for one dirty little boy

One evening this little man had food all over himself! He had managed to smear it all over his face, in his hair and you should have seen his clothes!! So we decided to just give him a bath! It was much easier to clean him up this way...and he is starting to really enjoy his play time in the bath! He has a few bath toys that stay in the bathroom now!

He is just growing up too fast!! We're loving it so much!

new emotion: scared

Last night Brandon, Oliver and i went to Bruce and Bonnie's house to check out the new paint colour in their old living room. Very nice colour!! And while we were there Bruce showed us a witch's hat and a mullet he bought for halloween. Brandon put the hat on and pressed the button that sang a little song and moved the tip of the hat back and forth making the bell ring...well, Oliver certainly didn't like it!! He was sitting on the floor, listening to a couple of seconds of it...and then burst into tears!! He did not like it at all!! i think this is the first time he has shown with tears that he's scared!! Poor little fellow!

Doesn't he make a great little mullet man??

My little man
so funny!

two little teeth

Little Oliver has 2 teeth!! Both on the bottom...super cute! He cut his first one a couple weeks ago and now his second one has popped through too!!

there they are!! still kind of low to the gums, but you can see them when he smiles!!

6 months old...

okay...he still has 9 days to go, but it's close enough!!
tonight i dressed him up in his new clothes and had him looking all super cute...and then put his new pumpkins around him on the blanket for some photos! yesterday we stopped at the farmer's market and bought oliver's first pumpkin!! oh, so cute!!

he was super fascinated with the pumpkins!!
he wouldn't take him eyes off them for more than a couple seconds!!

my big boy...

so interested in his little pumpkin...i love the bubbles coming from his mouth!!

these little fingers are all over everything!! he is so into reaching for everything and touching and pulling whatever gets close enough...hair included!!

his first taste of pumpkin!!

brandon came over and helped me get his attention!!

my little boy is becoming a big boy...he can now sit up all by himself, roll over from his back to his tummy, has one tooth and is working on the other, is babbling all the time, smiles more than ever and melts our hearts everyday!!