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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Oliver is thirteen months old

Oliver turned 13 months today and we were able to get some cute pictures. Oliver continually amazes us at how smart he is and how much he understands. His baby signing vocabulary is increasing every day and he is still practicing standing by himself and he cruises along everything. He recently cut his third tooth and is working on cutting the fourth and fifth which has not been fun for him. Moo Cow Oliver had a great Halloween, we did some trick-or-treating at Daddy's work and at Cousin Robynn's. We are enjoying every minute of the beautiful weather we have had here in Dallas.

Video of Oliver stomping his foot (dancing)!

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Video of Oliver showing off some signs

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

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.