9 Months Old

I swear I am not torturing this child! He officially has a tooth- it has broke through. The picture isn't the greatest, but I was able to see the tooth. He really didn't seem to act any different during teething so we have no complaints about that so far.

Oliver was playing quietly in his room while I was working on a few things. I went in to check on him and he was playing with his puzzle in his closet.

The official 9 month pictures with his seahorse. It is getting harder and harder to get these pictures to turn out, he just wants the paper. Oh well, we'll keep getting them for a few months :)

We also took him in to get his 9 month professional pictures taken. He did really well with those- we got lots of good smiles. He was on the move for some of the pictures, but we got some good pictures.

Have a good weekend everyone!!

Oliver spends most of his outside time sitting in the fire truck driving. He also plays on the slide a lot too.

Oliver got a cubs tshirt from his cousin Amy this weekend- so we had to do a few pictures with a bat and came to realize we do not own a baseball.

Oliver in the bathtub again- he is so happy in the water!

Oliver in his exersaucer

Our Weekend

Dan, Gage, and 2 of his friends driving the John Deere in the parade.

Oliver shifting in Danielle's car.

Oliver and Danielle talking to each other.


A whole bunch of Oliver with the Oliver pictures :) He is wearing his new t-shirt that has 2 Olivers on it- a full-size one and a pedal one and it says "OLIVER - Just like Grandpa's"

We went back to Iowa for the weekend. It was Antique Acres so we spent most of Saturday outside with tractors. Oliver was a big fan- he even got his hair cut on the Oliver tractor (steering wheels help with haircuts). The weather was perfect. There was also a parade that we watched. Oliver got to ride on a golf cart and a big steam engine. He also got to spent lots of time playing. His cousin Danielle shared her car with him and he pretty much loved it.

On Sunday, Eric got up to feed Oliver his breakfast and he appears to be getting a tooth. One of his bottom middle teeth is showing under his gums, it hasn't quite cut through yet, but I'm sure it will soon. It also looks like his top teeth could come pretty quickly too.
Later in the day, Oliver and I went to a bridal shower for Renee at my sister Coco's house. That was a fun time too. We left for home around 4:30 and made it back a few minutes before 9. Oliver played a few minutes after we got home to stretch out after riding for so long and then ate and went to bed for the night. He slept very well.

Bath Time

Oliver loves bath time. It was a quick bath tonight, but usually he spends a lot of the time on his tummy splashing around.

Speed Demon

Here is a little video of Oliver crawling. He is getting pretty quick. He crawls all over the place, but when I pulled the camera out, he decided it was time for a break- so we used Eric's cell phone to bribe him a bit.

Oliver is almost 9 months old and is outgrowing a lot of his 6-9 month pajamas so this past weekend, we picked up a few pairs of 9-12 month pajamas for him. Here he is hanging out in his new pajamas- it is hard to believe he is big enough for them- not too long ago his newborn pajamas were big on him.

Oliver showed us that he really can hold his bottle by himself.

These two pictures are backwards, but the top shows him crawling out of his tunnel and the bottom shows him crawling into his tunnel. He loves it when we look through the mesh while he is inside of the tunnel- he cracks up laughing.


Oliver showing off his standing skills again and playing with a bead chaser. (Notice the tipped over chair- someday he will learn that they are not strong enough to hold him up, but today was not that day)

Working on standing up using the couch.

Oliver reading one of his books- he seems to like them quite a bit.

Eric and Oliver playing in the dining room. Oliver pretty much has no fear and enjoys being upside down.

Myself and Amy at Renee's bachelorette party- I was a doctor and Amy was the pork queen and I believe ran a slaughterhouse :)

Renee's bachelorette party- we went to a murder mystery dinner.