Monday, January 24, 2011

Ten Months {Crazy}

Did I really just type that?
Is he really in the double digits??
Do we really only have 2 more months until our baby is ONE???
Noooo!!!!!!!
It's unreal.
He looks way too little to be almost one.
Birthday party plans are underway! Just have to decide on a location and I am super excited about all I have planned.

He had a very eventful 9th month full of all sorts of new tricks and kicks. 

Starting with getting onto his knees this day.
He's always on them now but refuses to actually crawl like that. You can see him thinking about it (like in this picture) and even wanting to but he just lays down and starts off with his one arm, one leg wounded soldier army crawl ahaha.

Getting onto his kness lead to sitting on his knees, which I think is so cute.

Which lead to CLIMBING!!
 and he climbs onto everything!
These are also his two favorite 'toys' The crayola box is his favorite thing to climb on and the Batman Cave he plays with more then Wesley does. He LOVES it! 

And then that lead to him standing using just one hand!.

Before long he'll be walking and we'll really be in trouble O_o

He had 3 teeth pop through out of no where! Which means there has been no shortage of this...
and this...

And since he's been teething pretty hard core he won't sleep unless he's in the same room as me so he's mostly been sleeping in his swing turned chair


He started clapping which is just so adorable.

And he started doing the little 'Indian call' where he says "aaahhhhhh" and pats his mouth. 
Adorable.

He is SO in love with Wesley. As in love with him as Wesley has been with him since he 1st found out he was going to be a big brother. 
Wesley carries him all around the house. He loves to take him into the play room to play (which usually ends up with Oliver screaming b/c Wes has trapped him in the ball pit & he can't get out). Wes watches him like a hawk so that he doesn't put something in his mouth or fall off of anything. Every morning he comes in our room and any time Oliver moves on the bed he grabs him and says "mommy! Oliver's trying to fall off the bed again!" Oliver fell off the bed last month and ever since Wes has been on high alert.

1-13 he pulled up in his crib for the 1st time! He had been following me all around the kitchen crying b/c he was beyond exhausted so I put him in his crib to go to sleep. Well he wasn't having that, so he was in there screaming. When I finally got to a stopping point in cooking I went in to check on him and he was standing there screaming. I started yelling "YAAAYYYYY OLIVER!" and Wes came in clapping and saying "YAY!" but it didn't really sooth him any lol.




He gives High 5's. Sometimes he gets excited and gives High 10's lol.


He's started saying "Bye bye" and he says "Ugh uh" and has impeccable timing with it.
But his favorite is still the dada song. 


He gets into everything and puts everything in his mouth.

 He's such a mama's boy.
He's so sweet and loving and full of smiles and has the best laugh. 

I just love me some him.
Happy 10 months Ollie Ollie oxen-freed! 

Monday, January 17, 2011

The boy's monthly tree {January}

A couple of years ago I bought Wesley his own Christmas tree for the bedroom.

After Christmas I went shopping and saw all of these ornaments on clearance and got the idea to decorate it every month with the holidays or seasons. I bought lots and lots of different ornaments during the Christmas clearance that year and was SO excited to decorate it every month. During each new holiday I bought some things to add to really bring out the holiday of that month like heart pics for valentines day, some clover garland for St. Patty's day and some fun Easter eggs that I bought on our trip to Indiana. I ended up with two small totes full.

Well it only last a couple of months and we started running out of room for it. Then we moved and definitely didn't have room for it. 
Then when mom moved out and the boys went from a bedroom with their toys in it to a playroom and bedroom separate there was more then enough room in their bedroom for the tree AND they needed a night light so it was perfect!

It's been set up in their bedroom since November and they both love it.

Their January/winter wonderland tree is in there now.

It's in shades of blue, white and silver with little snowmen... not that it snows much here lol




 

 Here's to hoping I can keep it up :)