Savannah

We took a quick little trip up to Savannah and Oliver had the time of his life (although he didn't enjoy the drive either direction). He loved that all the toys were exactly what he loved (trains, balls, slides, and tricycles). And he fell in love with Spencer's frog rain boots.

We went to a Pioneer day breakfast at the church. As we were hanging around before we left he found the Primary room and went up to the podium and kept saying "Father, Amen". This kid is good at saying prayers!

We also went on the boat and out to look for sharks teeth. We only found a few small ones this time but it was still fun. Wendy, Daniel and Ruth were visiting too. Oliver fell asleep on the way to the island and woke up for the ride back to the marina. He was very content to just sit on laps and relax.

After the boat trip he found these two gems in the garage. He somehow learned who Spiderman is and loved this Spiderman helmet. He could have ridden this tricycle all day long.

Visit from Caleb and Becky

It looks like these pictures are in reverse order, but you can get the jist this way too. These pictures are from Becky. She was awesome and took lots of pictures.

As they were headed for the airport to go home, there were lots of hugs. Oliver wasn't so sure about them after a while, but Carson was all for it.

We spent a lot of time at the beach.

I think this one is my favorite picture.

We also took them to Blue Springs. The water was chilly but crystal clear and beautiful. We wish we could have stayed a little longer.

We also went over to Daytona beach.

And I guess that sums up the trip. A lot of swimming, burgers, fries, and laughs.

Thanks for coming!

Saying Cheese in the Grass

Something about posing in the grass has meant that Oliver has been extra willing to pose for the camera. This includes saying cheese AND looking at the camera. Tonight when he was showing off the short grass he was being exceptionally adorable as he posed for the camera. Of course the camera only caught a second, but just imagine him swinging his arms around and saying cheese over and over.

 

I've had several people ask me to put a picture up of my 20 week belly. Here it is in all of its glory. 

From the little camera

Well, since  it is much easier to get the photos off the phone, I've only done posts with my phone pictures lately. But I had reason to get photos off the little camera so here are some new pics from different events over the last month or so.

First we have playgroup. Our ward did a little preschool playgroup every Thursday until two weeks ago. I'm not going to lie, I kinda miss it. It was nice to get to go hang out with the other moms and for Oliver to practice playing with other kids. I also think it helped him to enjoy nursery a little more. The second to last activity included tracing Oliver and taking some of his stats. He was really good at laying still while I traced half of his body and I did the coloring in since Oliver wasn't interested. He was pretty proud of his poster when we got home and gladly posed for these photos. 

5/28/2014

24.8 lbs

33 inches or 2 feet 9 inches tall

 The next event was the extremely long graduation of my oldest niece, Aurelia. Yep. She is 18 and soon will be off to college (which I think she thinks can't come soon enough).

 I try to actually do some of the things that I pin on Pinterest. This activity was playing with shaving cream. I got some at the Dollar Tree and Oliver definitely loves it. Although he does smell strongly of shaving cream afterwards. It was perfect to do it out at the farm in the water table for easy clean-up.

 Grandpa has been busy mowing almost constantly to try to keep the grass at bay.

 That same day Oliver discovered taking pictures and liked to pose for them, so here are a few of those.

I have been wanting to go blueberry picking for a while now and we finally made it out. Turned out that the day that we went was SUPER hot as you can tell by Oliver's red cheeks. We (Oliver, me, my mom, and dad) went again about a week later and it was perfect overcast breezy cool weather. Plus I thought to bring a stroller so I didn't have to hold Oliver after two minutes. It was a much more successful picking that time. Turns out that Oliver prefers blackberries to blueberries although he likes them both. Luckily, blackberries are everywhere right now so we have had a constant supply just by going outside.

 This one I couldn't get Oliver to hold still, but it is just documenting the first time he put on his shoe by himself. He has done it several times since and only about 30% of the time puts the shoe on the wrong foot. Pretty proud of him :).

And that's it for now.