Oliver 8-10 Months

Oliver's just been growing like a weed, here are some pictures to prove it!

 

 He can now see over the top of his crib, which is so cute. I love waking up to those big blue eyes!

 

These two videos are from when he was learning to stand and crawl on his hands and knees, not just scoot around. Now he can buzz around so fast, and gets up and down with help from just about anything!

He loves his sippy and walker.

 Just checking out the pots and pans cupboard. Now I come in to find all the pots and pans out and Little O inside sometimes.

 First time eating celery, I think it's one of his favorites. He likes to munch on the stalk until the juice is gone, then he's done.

Played so hard he fell asleep...

 The video is when he learned to clap.

This one is his new big boy car seat, since he got too tall for his old one. I can't believe my boy is that big! When we were in the Dr.'s office today, she asked how old he is and I said, "10 months." She couldn't believe it, she asked me if I was sure, because she was sure he was at least 15 months!

 This boy LOVES to swim! This is him in his cute reusable swim diaper I found. We love it!

 Mom and Little O swimming. He's starting to kick and loves just moving around in the water. If I put him sitting on the side, then he "jumps" in to me. He also doesn't mind dunking with Dad too much! If I put him on his back with the back of his head on my shoulder then he relaxes and almost floats. He must have a little Fisher blood in him!

I've been teaching several of the kids in our ward to swim, so Little Man and I get the chance to go swimming pretty frequently. It's pretty much the only activity you can stand to do outside in the afternoon because of the heat.

 The video is his way of pushing the button on his walker to make it sing. He likes it when I sing along, so sorry about the horrible vocals!

 Just woke up in this picture, and playing with one of his favorite toys, a golf ball. He must take after his Dad a little, too. :)

 He's such a smiley boy, I love it! He has a couple more teeth now, too. He now has 2 on top with 2 more coming in, and 3 on bottom with 2 more coming in.

 I opened the fridge to get something out and turned around to find this! He's so quick sometimes! He mostly just checked everything out and got out a jar of baby food. Silly boy!

This is from the 4th of July. We had fun at a pancake breakfast our Ward put on that morning, and then Mike had to go to work. Oliver and I just had fun and went swimming in the afternoon. That evening we jumped in the car as soon as Mike got home from work so we could try to catch the firework show, but it ended while we were on our way, so Oliver missed it. Oh well, he'll probably enjoy it a lot more next year anyway. He fell asleep when we got stuck in traffic on our way home and this is him when we got out of the car. He's such a sweet boy!

 The first video is Oliver at the park. We are now frequenters of the park on days when Dad is working in the evening. I love that he can check everything out without getting into trouble and get all worn out and ready for bed, it's the greatest! He's really starting to get better at walking with help, like you can see with the little cozy coup!

The second video is his first cookie, and one of his new signs. He now asks for more with his hand, yay!

 After he finished the cookie, I noticed that around his mouth was really red, a little swollen, and had hives. This has happened several other times, and we've been trying to figure out what's causing it. We pretty much have it pin-pointed to eggs we think, so we've been more wary about what we give him to try. We also took him in to the Dr. today to ask her about it. She suggested we take him in to get allergy tested since it's pretty genetic with all the things Mike was allergic to when he was young and the allergies in my family. They weren't able to get any blood today, so we're hoping to pump him full of liquids and take him back in Friday morning. Hopefully it goes better then.

His new trick is crawling around with something in his mouth, he thinks it's so cool!

Some clapping, what a silly baby!