Oliver is my one year old birthday boy!

As you can see, my sweet little baby has the chicken pox for his first birthday. Unfortuantely that combined with a fever made for quite a miserable little guy today. I don’t think I have ever taken such a large group of pictures without even one smile captured. We decided not to wrap most of his presents since we would probably have to do much of the unwrapping ourselves, so we had most of everything all set up when he woke up in the morning. Before lunch, we gave Oliver the opportunity to dig into his cake but he wasn’t at all interested; even after I cut a piece for him he wouldn’t touch it. The chicken pox didn’t curb his appetite for pizza and he dug into it and probably would have kept eating the entire piece if I could have waited for him. Later in the day, we just hung out at the house and tried to make him as comfortable as possible. Hopefully Oliver will get through this soon, but I fear we haven’t past the worst yet as today was day 5 and he just started getting some scabs where blisters were yesterday.














Video of Oliver on his new choo choo train

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Oliver is eleven months old

Oliver is now walking with a walker and he has recently discovered that everyone has eyes (including animals) and will point to them when asked.

Oliver is ten months old

Oliver is quickly approaching ten months now. He figured out he could stand up to more than just Mommy & Daddy last week and now we can’t keep him from standing, even in his crib. He received his first bruise on his head as a result of falling on the window ledge after pulling himself up for the first time to look out the window. He loves finger foods and now he wants to spoon feed himself too. His baby signing is progressing more and more. It has been very hot here so all the wild life sleeps during the day. Oliver and I still go outside each day to sit on the front porch for a while and we are constantly on the look out for birds and rabbits. Since Oliver has never done the sign for bird, I was totally impressed when after seeing his first bird in weeks he began flapping his arms in a bird like fashion when he saw a huge black bird in Costco’s parking lot.

Video of Oliver crawling & being cute!

Video of Oliver---the fastest commando crawler ever!

Video of Oliver, he really wants the phone!

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