Just like the dog

The dog likes you to hold her rawhide bones so she can chew on them (a trick Grammy Anne taught her).  Well, Oliver wants you to hold the teether so he can gnaw on it. Just like the dog!

Scenes from our Weekend

Busy, busy weekend...  Friday was pouring rain, so I took him to Walmart to walk around and buy wipes for daycare and teethers (more on that later...).  Well, we check out and then I realize I had locked my keys in the car.  So stupid- I put them in my purse, then decided to just take my wallet and phone and throw them in the diaper bag.  Oops.  Dad came to the rescue with spare keys and Oliver and I got to really soak in the Walmart ambiance.  :-/

Saturday morning we headed back over to Ellsworth for The Big Latch-On, a world-wide breastfeeding event to promote Breastfeeding Week. 11 of us fed our babies in the park to add to the global totals.  Then we went to breakfast with a friend and her 2 1/2 year old (who looks like he is 5- so big!!!).  Oliver was a total peach for the entire outing, looking cute in his Osh Kosh B'Gosh's (which, unfortunately, he had to change out of after a rather large diaper mishap- yuck-o).  We spent the rest of the day next door with my Mom since Dad and Peter were working on installing a new window and moving the door to access the new screened porch.  Very exciting, but loud and messy, stuff.

Rockin' the B'Gosh

Sunday my Mom and I took him to breakfast and then down to Stonington to walk around.  The view was spectacular, so of course he slept through all of it.

Not looking at the million dollar view

He was really very well behaved all weekend, especially considering he seems to have started teething.  No teeth popping through yet, but he's wanted to chew and chew on everything so I bought him some proper teethers to chew on.  He also has his John Deere massaging corn teether, but it's a bit big for him to hold still.

Chewing on Daddy's knuckles

The other fun thing is that Oliver has really discovered his feet- he spent about 30 minutes playing with them quietly in the pack and play all by himself on Saturday.  Here is a video from Sunday night where he figured out how to play with the rattle on his bouncy chair with his feet.




We all got a  good night's sleep on Sunday- weekends are hard work!

Just because

A few photos from this past week. 

I'll take the little moments...

Oliver was being quite the beastie- screaming, not napping, generally being a bear. Then this happened. All forgiven...

Oliver 3+ Months

He'll be 15 weeks this Thursday...  That doesn't sound like much, but he has pretty much doubled in size and is developing in leaps and bounds.

He's discovering his feet (yes, those are riduculous rattles on his feet.  They are called "foot finders"):

He's not always impressed with Mommy:

Whatever, Mom

And Daddy is not always impressed with him:

Photo by Arhea Marshall

When he's on his tummy, he kinda looks like Higgens from Magnum, P.I.

Bath time involves less crying and more splashing.  He's not quite at the point where he enjoys it, though.

He's actively grabbing things and interacting with them.  Control over hands and arms is advancing rapidly:

Concentration!

He likes sitting up (with plenty of help from Mommy and the Boppy):

And having long discussions with FuddleWuddle Puppy:

He's growing up so fast!

Before you know it...

he'll be sitting up! Our first attempt went quite well today. 

Oliver July 2013

Oliver July 2013, a set on Flickr.

Photos from Michigan (not all feature Oliver. I know, hard to imagine...).