Oliver the Elf

Merry Christmas from Oliver....

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Oliver and the Christmas Tree

Oliver is much too curious, mobile and precarious for us to get a big Christmas Tree this year. Instead, we opted for a "tabletop tree". Oliver's first word is "ball" and he cant stop saying it whenever he sees the decorated tree with the ball ornaments.

Oliver Walks!

Oliver took his first steps tonight!

We saw it once or twice and then we pulled out the video camera to make it official. Watch the video, the fourth time's the charm!

Oliver Walks!

Happy Halloween

Oliver celebrated Halloween with his friends, Isla and Piper. Giraffe Oliver, Ladybug Isla (16 months) and Cow Piper (3 months) all had a great time dressing up for Halloween!

Oliver 12 Months

Oliver's first trip to a farm

Pictures from Oliver's 1st Birthday Party

Letter to Oliver - Age One

Letter to Oliver- Age One

Dear Oliver,

You have brought so much excitement and love into our lives and we are so grateful that we have you as our little boy.

Some things we hope we’ll always remember about you at Age One:

You are a very happy little boy who’s developing a wonderful sense of humor – you laugh and smile all of the time. Sometimes you laugh so hard your eyes shut tight with excitement. Sometimes I’ll be walking down the street carrying you and I’ll look and see that you’re just smiling at the person walking behind us. You’re so friendly.

You love to be read to, your favorite stories are Yummy Yucky, Quiet Loud, Mommy Calls Me Monkey Pants, Where’s Baby’s Pumpkin and Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do You See? Whenever you are sad, we can read you a book and you calm down. You love to turn the page on the books when we read them.

You Love balls, wheels, Tupperware and opening and closing doors. One of your current favorite things to do is walk around with the Tupperware in your mouth so that the colored plastic covers your eyes and see the world in a shade of blue, red or whatever color the Tupperware cover is. You’ll laugh hysterically because we’re laughing too.

When you first learn how to do something, you won’t stop doing it until you’ve got it mastered. The stairs are your latest conquest. Walking behind a walker wagon seems to be your next surmountable challenge.

Sometimes you just like to be held.

Whenever your dad walks into a room, you smile.

Your favorite foods right now are cherry tomatoes, grapes, blueberries and mac and cheese.

You have blankets that need to be available at all times, whenever you hold them, you automatically start sucking your thumb. Your dad’s renamed them “Harley’s” because he thinks you’re too cool for “lovey’s”

You have lots of friends and though you don’t necessarily play together when you play side by side you are always checking to make sure they’re seeing what you are and they’re having fun too.

Happy First Birthday, Oliver! May this only be the first of many, many wonderful years!

(Picture of Oliver on top of Mount Washington on October 1)

Oliver in Wisconsin

I'm working on getting our pictures from our trip to Minnesota up but I thought I would post some fun ones from Oliver at his Grandpa's cabin in Wisconsin. He loved it.

Oliver Coming and Going

It has begun, Oliver has learned to walk using his walker wagon. It's only a matter of time before he's running up and down our hallway.

See for yourself:

Oliver coming and going

Oliver Found the Monitor in His Crib

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Oliver has a playdate with Zola

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Oliver 10 Months

How is Oliver ten months?!?! Time flies!

Notable things from this month- Oliver has two top teeth in addition to his two bottom, has started officially crawling and much to our dismay, his faux-hawk has fallen and his hair now lays flat on his head!

Oliver Crawls!

So we finally got a good video of Oliver crawling! Only problem is it's too big to post on the blog. He's very into his blanket these days as you will see in the video. Fifty-one seconds of your viewing pleasure:

Click here to watch Oliver crawl

Look what happens when Mom goes away!

Hurry home Katie, we miss you and love you.

Oliver 9 Months

It's getting harder and harder...

Oliver is moving a lot these days so sitting still for his 9 month picture was definitely a challenge. He kept wanting to crawl off of the chair or stand up. Pasted below are some of our favorites/the best we could do with our little mover!