Modeling a New Christmas Sweater

Uncle Kyle is Hilarious

Sarah and her boyfriend Kyle are visiting for the holidays and have been taking care of Oliver. Kyle has been able to make Oliver crack up with some fake sneezes. That Kyle is hilarious, it must be that southern accent....

Christmas Morning!

We had a wonderful Christmas morning with Oliver. He had a stocking with toys from Santa and from his mommy and daddy he got a cool train to ride on and push. As you can see from the photos, he thinks the train is pretty cool!

Oliver's First Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve at Nana and Grandpapa's house - meatballs, mashed potatoes, lefse and oodles of presents. Oliver was able to stay up a bit past his bedtime and party with his big cousins. I am looking forward to the years to come when these little ones will just have more and more fun together. Thanks Nana and Grandpapa for a magical night!

Sledding!

Oliver got a "baby boggan" as an early Christmas gift, so a couple of days before Christmas we were out at Matt's parents house and tried it out. The snow was so deep, it was hard for us to even walk through it, but Oliver seemed to have a good time. We are looking forward to doing a little more baby bogganing up on the North Shore in January.

Snuggle Bug

Matt usually gets up to feed Oliver his first bottle of the day (at about 5:30 am) because Matt is much more of a morning person than I am, but this morning Matt was in bed sick, so I was up early feeding Oliver. As I said, I am not much of a morning person, but I had such a great morning with Oliver today, I may just need to do some more of the early morning feedings.

I brought Oliver back to bed with me for his feeding and then he fell asleep on my chest. I was realizing how special that is to have such a sweet little guy sleeping on your chest and I just laid there taking in how precious he is. He woke up again a 6:30 with a smile on his face and we stayed snuggled up in bed together until 7:00. He was being so sweet. He has started to give "eskimo kisses" (is that still a PC term?) and was giving me bunches of them and babbling away. I am one lucky mama!

Pulling Up and Waving Bye-Bye

Oliver is almost nine months old and this week he has a couple of new tricks. Tonight he finally was able to successfully pull himself up to standing in his crib. He was pretty proud of himself. He also is starting to wave, which is adorable. I will try to get that on video to post later - but here are a couple of photos of Oliver standing in his crib.