Friday, September 24, 2010

10 months

10 months

2 months away from 1 year... yikes.

Little Ollie is doing wonderful. He had a lot of stuff go down over the past month. Cutting his first tooth (way fun). Learning to walk (with assistance) and never wanting us to stop walking with him. Learning to pull himself up, climb stairs, break Mommy's pretty centerpieces on the kitchen table, all that fun stuff!

As scary as it's been to see him learn so much and grow so fast in such a short time, it's also been so stinkin' fun. I love the look he gets in his face when he is doing one of his knew tricks and he just looks at me like "Mom, are you seeing this?? Look what I can do!". It's completely adorable.





Love you Poppy... 2 more months till birthday time!!

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

A fond farewell...

to summer.

Jon, Ollie and I had such a wonderful, fun summer this year. It felt so carefree. I felt like I had everything in the world. I really could not have been happier. Where as the past few summers prior, though fun, were always missing something very important.
Oliver.

Oh how I loved sharing a fun summer with my husband and my baby boy. Watching Ollie do the fun summer activities that I have always enjoyed so much, brought even more joy and more fun to everything. I loved every minute of it.

There are exactly 105 summer pictures (that is after I narrowed it WAY down) that I have on my computer. I will not force you to look at that many. But here are a few.

Here is Ollie, VERY excited to see grandma and grandpa great.


And some from Lake Powell.

I know it looks like he doesn't like me slobbering all over him but I assure you, he does.



Daddy and Ollie's footprints

Daddy. Aka my hot husband.

Ollie is SO his Daddy's boy. I love that they are both pulling the same half-smile face.

First ride on a jet ski. He was a little unsure but I think enjoyed it in the end because he fell asleep.

Now, for the first 2 days at lake powell, Oliver was SICK as can be. He has never been sick before so this was a very unwelcome surprise at a very inopportune time. He was cutting his first tooth and he had a terrible cold so he was completely miserable for those 2 days. This is what his face looked like all the time. So sad, so tired, so sick. No fun. Even when we tried to take him out to play in the water he just felt so lousy. Totally broke my heart. Luckily he made a full recovery and had fun the rest of the trip.

Big air for Jon

Not so much for me.


What a little stud in his little life jacket. He wasn't a fan.

There was SO much more, but I am way too tired to post it all. So this will have to do.
Thanks for all our friends and family that made this summer totally rock.

Thank you Ollie, for being here, and making this summer so much more fun and for making Mommy and Daddy so happy.