I'm probably not going to take pictures of Oliver every month now because he isn't changing quite so fast anymore. And I have been slacking on blogging for the last few months. So I will try to remember the going ons in April!
Oliver is getting very good at his animal noises! He is getting them down! He can say a few other words too, but if I say "Oliver what is that? (referring to a car) He will say VROOM VROOM. Or if I say What is that? *referring to a dog* He will say WOOF WOOF. So the name of things right now are the noises they make.
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| I always thought it was odd when people post naked pictures of their babies. BUT I couldn't help it. For some reason it is "different" when it is you own. haha. Not a good excuse. But look at the C-U-TE toosh! |
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| It was one of those rare occasions in Havasu when it rained! Oliver sat in the garage fascinated! a few times he tried running out in it and then got startled at what the heck was getting on him and ran back. |
This next picture is kind of sad to me because it is the last dental convention I am going to get to go to with my dad for awhile! There is an annual Western Regional Dental Convention in Phoenix that dental professionals can attend to attend courses to get the hours they need for renewal of our licenses. Since I became a dental hygienist (even in school), I have attended this with my dad. We always get a hotel and stay 1 or 2 nights (it is a 3 day event) and we have a good time going to restaurants and hanging out. I just really enjoy this bonding time with my dad because I don't get it often. Well Oliver and Dave attended with us this year so I could nurse Ollie during lunch and after. It was a good time. Because we are moving to Missouri now I am not going to be able to attend this with dad anymore. :( I will actually miss it!
Oliver did very well through general conference. I was able to hear more than I thought I was going to with him being the rambunctious toddler that he is. We watched it in my parents room while my parents were at the church watching it. At one point Dave, Ollie and I were on the bed. Ollie squeezed himself between Dave and I and started rubbing my back like he saw Dave doing. He is learning our mannerisms and copying them so well! I got on dad's chair and had Ollie asleep on my chest and look over and Dave is crashed out on the bed. Had to snap a picture of my tired boys. haha
Oliver at our dental convention was running around while we were eating lunch outside. There was a tree planted with a metal ring around it. He fell right between the metal plate and the tree and banged his lower lip. It was realllly puffy and bled a little. Then at some point a few days later, my mom took Oliver outside and they were walking down by the wash (which makes me nervous because he is still unsteady and falls a lot and there is quite a decline down into the wash). Well Oliver ran away from my mom and of course tripped because it was downhill. He hit his mouth on the pavement and was bleeding. It looked like his frenum was ripped (the little flap of skin above the upper central teeth). So this pooor boy had this puffy bruised lower lip and tender bleeding upper lip, but still was able to nurse and eat---poor thing!
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| You can kind of see the puffiness of his lip and the flap of skin hanging down on top |
This is just sillyness at Walmart. Funny bride picture op.
Sometimes I like to take pictures of when Oliver is crying because usually the reason he is crying is ridiculous. Here he is crying because I wouldn't let him crawl up on the table and SIT on the laptop. Sorry Ollie, I am such a bad mom.
Sometimes I let him feed himself.... yummy yogurt! haha
Ollie has such a rough life--Daddy feeding him sandwich.
Our pre-easter egg hunt. We were heading up to Thatcher for our Hatch family reunion during easter weekend, so my family wanted to have a little easter egg hunt with Ollie. I filled them with raisins and let him loose. He had no concept of putting the eggs in the basket and so just picked up 1 or 2 and walked around shaking them up and down. haha. Kind of uneventful. But he was still cute.
Off to Thatcher for family reunion! It was themed HATCHWARTS (Harry Potter themed). It was a fun time had by all. Besides the fact that Ollie got sooo sick toward the end of the week and had to get him antibiotics for an ear infection :(. Poor guy.
This is the Hatchwarts take on QUIDDITCH (I have no idea how to spell that).
We had different challenges and this one was an "iron chef" themed challenge where we had to make a 3 course meal with the available ingredients. We didn't win :(, but it was still fun!
Ollie again only liked getting one egg during the easter egg hunt. He found a tasty starburst that I let him eat and was in heaven chewing on that for awhile!
So great for Ollie to get to see his cousins! We miss Tim and Cadie and Trent and Allie!
Julie and I dressed in our Harry Potter get-up. Julie was the Petronus? Sp again? I'm not a Harry Potter know it all, so I don't know the terms very well.
Some of my favorite times of the week was just hanging out playing games. My sister-in-law Cadie wrote in her blog the most hilarious moment for me, and she writes better than me so I am going to plagiarize (sorry Cadie) and copy what she wrote on my blog. At least I'm giving her credit! :). Seth, Tim, Brittany and Jeff were in the living room playing with a balloon. (Cadie) was sewing an owl pillow Trent and Allie had made at the reunion that day, and watching the show! They were keeping the balloon off the floor by using their feet. Tim was rolling all over the floor and cracking everyone up with his antics and sound affects. After a while he stopped and said, "I feel like fat little pokemon. What's that one called?" That sent Brittany on a three minute giggling spree, and in the middle of it she said, "Jigglypuff!" Later that same night Liz came up and her, Tim, Jeff, Brittany, and Seth played boggle. I was so tired I literally could not stay awake. I fell asleep on Tim while they played, but as I was sleeping I could hear Seth cheating. He kept making up words, or completely misspelling them. At one point he was reading off his list and he said, "Worked." Everyone was trying to figure out how he'd gotten that word and he spelled it "werkd." Apparently that is Liz's favorite game, but she can't stand playing with Seth cause he's such a cheater at it. But it was really fun to listen to, even while nodding off.
Anyway, back to my horrible story telling. *sigh*. We tired SOOOOOO hard to get Jeff (Dave's Brother) to ask Brooke (my sister) to prom, because Jared and gone with Lizzy a few years earlier and they actually had a good time. Jeff is one stubborn guy and would. not. budge. We were a little sad, but Dave's cousin Parker stepped up and thought it would be fun. So he send Brooke a pizza in Havasu that said "I know this is 'cheesy' but....." on the front of the box and then on the inside it said "Will you go to the Thatcher" and then on the pizza was spelt "Prom". It was fun
Brooke had her messengers "dave and I" put together a response because she could not physically be present. Outside of the tennis courts where Parker practices after school we wrote PARKER YES (see pic below). A lot of his classmates saw it. It was fun.
On their day date together.
I did Brooke's hair. Holy stressful and holy amount of bobby pins! Luckily it turned out and looked super cute on her!
She looked like such a babe (as usual). :)
Oliver loves his books. That kid can spend half a day reading. What makes reading better? Having your own sized chair to sit in of course!
Someone in the ward gave us this cute truck for Ollie. He loves pushing it around. The trick is the back part goes up to get the "dump" affect, which means he is unexpectedly face planted it a few times while pushing it.
I had to add this, a picture of my dad when he was a baby. hehe. He has the receding hairline even then! No wonder I have no hair in front! Definitely strong genetics in the working.
Love this sweeeet boy!
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