The following is an update on Oliver's 8th month, I just wrote it after he turned 9 months.
What a good and bad November this has been....
All the photos I have taken since the computer got stolen were sitting on my phone. I was hoping to get a new computer in the near future so I could save the photos from my phone and update my blog. Wellll.... I have 'hurt' my phone 3 times and the 3rd time it was dead for good. Or I guess I should say OLIVER has killed my phone.. The first time it was in my back pocket and I was trying to go to the bathroom while being distracted by a clingy Oliver and it fell in the toilet. After 3 days soaking in a rice bath it revived. YAY. Then Oliver thought it was his chew toy and bit the top of my phone and popped out the opposite side (he has some STRONG chompers)! Dave popped it back in and it started working again YAY. Then Oliver got ahold of it and as fast as he could, he threw it hard and fast on the tile. Could we be so lucky that it will work again!? I tried everything I could think of, Dave even order a kit online to take it apart and look for something internally that could be fixed, nope. It is dead. Along with more of my cherished photos and videos. Seriously? So no 8 and 9 month photos for Ollie. Just the ones I could get off facebook.
We went to Ollie's first parade! Veterans Day!
Oliver just turned 9 Months. He is such a character. This month we have seen so many changes in his personality and abilities.
Oliver's first 2 teeth came in this month!!!! As a dental hygienist this makes me very excited and happy. i was at swim class and Oliver was smiling and I look down and see a little shimmer. I stopped what I was doing and looked and saw TWO teeth barely poking out. I squealed a little and spent the rest of the day touching his gum and teeth and staring at them. I've been brushing those little teethers too :).
When Ollie gets mad or sad a lot of times he will make this little squinty eyed face and moan. The squinty face makes us laugh every time and then he looks at us like "hey why are you laughing? I'm sad here!" He is saying babababa, mamamama, and aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhuhuhu. :) I love hearing him babble. It is adorable. He often talks to himself.
He isn't mobile on his own yet. He wants to be but hasn't found the coordination or motivation to do it yet. As I wrote this he just pulled himself up from the floor onto the couch :). He can go from tummy to sitting. Crawling is SO close. He gets on his hands and knees like he is about to crawl and reaches for something and then usually ends up belly flopping. Luckily he doesn't face plant anymore so I don't have to be right next to him. As for walking he has discovered if he puts one foot in front of the other he can go places, but he needs help. He has learn to recruit anyone and everyone he can to hold his fingers while he cruises around. This results in all our backs *especially mine* feeling awfully sore :). Luckily I have an awesome walker that I can put him in and he will walk around the house in that. The only downfall to the walker is it does limit where he can go (if there are objects in his way or small doorway) and he can't reach most of the things that he wants. But he is VERY good and has great control walking in that. When walking on our fingers he knows when he wants to stop and sit and play and then get back up. His favorite game is to have someone chase him and scare him or go sit around a corner and him walk slowly peeking around the corner and then get scared. Once scared he picks up his walking speed past the person and then turns around a does it again. It is fun to be able to play with him (what I've been waiting for his whole babyhood--well that and being able to talk to him and teach him cards). :)
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| Ollie likes pulling out dvds, books, everything |
Oliver has been a not so good sleeper this month. Lately I've been so tired I just have him sleep with us (bad of me, I know). Ollie loves it though. haha. We all sleep horrible when Ollie sleeps with me, so I have only done it in Havasu. One morning Ollie had woken up and was sitting there banging his head over and over on Dave's head. Dave woke up and looked at him and Ollie just stared back. Then dave turned his head again and closed his eyes and ollie started again. He is too funny.
Oliver is a scaredy cat--mostly to loud noises. Whenever I vacuum, use a blender, use a food processor, or if there is a loud scream or laugh he cries. My Aunt Barbi has a baby Oliver's age and we were all in Havasu for Thanksgiving and they were playing by each other. Baby Matthew made a squeal of delight and in a split second Oliver flung his whole body on my lap behind him and reached for me and started crawling up my body. Can you tell he is a first child? Even something as simple as changing his sheets on his crib scared him when I set down the mattress too hard. He is silly.
My family tries to see Oliver every month or so, but this month we got to see them TWICE. Dave had a week at the beginning of November that his dentist had taken off, so his paycheck wouldn't be as big. So Ollie and I drove down to Havasu and I worked 3 days for my dad. We had a good time there, but Ollie was timid most of the time. He warmed up to my mom enough that he would let her watch him while I worked. Usually I see 2-4 patients a day, so not too much. Dave stayed in Tucson to work for one day and go to class. Unfortunately while we were gone our house got broken into. Dave worked on a Wednesday and was gone all day at work and then went straight to class that night until 8:30 PM. Somewhere in that day someone broke in. There is a little alley street behind our triplex that they probably parked in, came from the back, hopped our fence, broke our kitchen window by throwing a rock through it and then opened our window and climbed in. They took everything out our back door and over the fence again. We had a really nice 27 inch IMAC that we used for a LOT OF THINGS. It was our 'TV', used for Dave's real estate photography business (he has a lot of software he bought to edit the photos with), used to store ALL our 1000+ songs we have bought on ITUNES, recipes we loved, my budgeting software I bought that tracked all our purchases for the last year and most importantly had a journal I wrote for Oliver from the beginning of my pregnancy and all the photos and videos I had of Oliver and of Dave and I since 2006. BOOO on dishonest people that steal. Now all of that is gone in one expensive computer (runs about $1900) not including all the software we had on the computer that we bought. I feel like I was robbed of my organization and memories (not just a computer). Dave has just upgraded cameras to a Canon T3i for his real estate photography and that we bought used for $400 (retails at $600). They also took the memory cards with it and a part of our tripod that was still attached to it (so now our tripod is no good). They were on their way out with Dave's bike, but for some reason left it in the backyard. Dave got home at 8:30 at night walks in and sees the back door wide open and he got so mad he threw his keys at the wall. He gave me a call that I didn't want to hear that we had been broken into. He called the police and they said not to touch anything and that they will put him on the list of non-emergency visits and an officer will come 'soon'. Soon? yea right. Dave sat outside in the cold, starving because he didn't have time to eat lunch or dinner that day waiting. He didn't want to leave to get food in case the officer came. He didn't want to go in and make something because they said not to mess with anything in the house. When did the officer end up showing up? 2 in the morning! We were grateful Ollie and I weren't there, but maybe it wouldn't have happened if we were there! Who knows! All I know is now I want a gun so I can defend my family if someone ever tries to break in when we are there. Dave was a little shaken that night, but was finally able to go to sleep. Luckily he didn't have work the next day. I really don't like Tucson, especially where we live because it is so ghetto. We live right on a busy street and Dave said earlier that week he took out the trash and left the door open and on his way back to the door saw a guy walking by and the guy had a straight view into our house and could see the iMac computer.... Dave had the thought "That guy saw our computer and is going to come back and steal it". Scary. One BIG reason we are PRAYING Dave gets into a dental school this year is to get us out of TUCSON!. Part of me is going to miss Tucson ONLY because of the AMAZING people we have met here and that's IT!
Thanksgiving week was AWESOME! I couldn't have asked for a better holiday. We drove after Dave's class on Wednesday night. We got to Havasu at like 1 AM. Ollie slept almost all the way. Some of my dad's siblings came into town. David and Barbi and their 7 kids and Bruce and Amy and their 5 kids and Mom, Dad, Dave, Me, Ollie, Cameron, Brooke, and Lulu and Papa. There was a lot of people squished into my parents house. I haven't seen a lot of them in a while, so it was so great to catch up!!! We were so busy the whole time and I loved it. I was talking after to my fam and said "wow I had so much fun" and they said I was like on a high all week. haha. I told them it is because I stay at home with Ollie all day and do the same thing so this was like heaven to me. They said that all the food I ate, I savored every bite. I come from a long line of great cooks:). Everything was made from scratch. Thanksgiving night we all went to Rotary Park and saw the new big Skate Park they just put in. There were people doing tricks that were giving me a heart attack and I was just waiting for them to crash and hurt themselves. My child is never going to do anything like that cuz momma can't handle it! We, being a very competitive family, began to race at the Boche Ball area and spent like 30 minutes seeing who could beat who. I loved it. We spent a LOT of the week playing cards. Another Lundin family fact is almost all of us LOVE cards (because my grandparents have taught us to love playing cards). A patient of my dad's gave us a timeshare at Nautical on the Lake. It had a beautiful little beach cove and a pool right next to the lake AND an awesome view of the town. My parents rented a paddle board and 3 kayaks. We just had a blast. The pool was slightly heated and so Ollie and I swam with the cousins. We showed off all Ollie's swim class tricks. He did great! It was my first time paddle boarding and I was better at it than I thought I would be. I was really motivated NOT to fall in because they lake was a little chilly. The weather was good to us. It was like 68 and sunny. It was pretty sweet to be able to swim during Thanksgiving. We also played tennis and the guys golfed and played basketball. I stayed a few days after everyone left to work for dad because Dave didn't have to be back until Wednesday.
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| All the pies Ma made. |
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| All of the delicious pies! |
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| Some of the gang staring at the people in the kitchen salivating waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to be ready! |
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| Ollie met his cousin first removed? My aunt Barbie's baby. It was fun to see them together. |
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| My Little CUTIE! He loves the water! |
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| Soooo Tired |
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Buddies at the beach
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| We L-O-V-E our cards! |
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| Michael photobombing in back haha |
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| Cam had an adoring fan--cousin Abigail |
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| I was walking by the room and saw Ollie in the middle of all his adoring fans on the bed. Too Cute. |
Lastly, Dave is doing great in his classes. He has gotten in the groove of knowing what and how to study for these classes. He performs like a 96 on his tests when the class average is 46. I'm proud of him. He got a blessing from my dad during Thanksgiving week because he has a lot of stress of getting into dental school and providing for his family.
November is NO SHAVE NOVEMBER..... Daddy showing off his beard. Ollie is a little jealous.
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