Whit and Millie

Whitney (my sis) and Millie (her daughter) came into town to visit last month. We went to Gardner Village...

and celebrated Millie's birthday (among other things). Whitney made Millie this really cute sheep cake and we had a farmy picnicy dinner. It was cute. Millie loved the cake and went straight for the gumdrop nose and kept calling it a "bicycle" for some odd reason. She was completely spellbound when we sang happy birthday to her.

And here's just a cute picture of raspberries before bed time.

9 months

It is much harder to take a still picture of Ollie. Here is the best I could get.

9 months

Weight: 21.7 lbs (60%)

Height: 30 in (95%)

Head Size: 47 cm OR 18.5 in (90%)

So basically, he has his dad's exact same body.

Ollie can now army crawl or "cantelope" or breakdance the the inch worm across the floor. It is very nice that he can finally get around on his own. He also waves Bye and we are pretty sure he gives us "5". He loves his books, especially his Rainbow Trucks book and any book that has lift up flaps. He also loves bath time. Last night he was laying in his diaper on the living room floor and I started filling up the bath tub. He got so excited he inch wormed his way over to me. I picked him up to take his diaper off and he freaked out and tried to squirm away. I stood him next to the tub naked and he tried to lift his leg up to climb in. It was so cute especially because he was scared to death of bath's up until a month or so ago.

Toppings for your Fontanel

In Junior High I created a magazine called Toppings for Your Head that I did 2 issues of. The cover featured George Washington with an upside down ice cream cone on his head on the first issue, and santa claus with a present on his head in the second issue.

I think Up and Up stole my idea.

That or maybe putting a sweet potato on a baby's head is just universally acknowledged as great marketing.

Balloons and Homeless

So I love it when little boys have like shaggy china bowl hair cuts. I want Ollie to have that. But I think maybe now isn't the right time to grow it out. We've cut his hair twice already and were just going to let it grow out now, but I'm not sure I can take this in between phase. He looks homeless. Any tips on growing out baby boys hair??

He also has a cold (and therefore runny nose), and has clogged tear ducts still (and therefore goopy eyes). The poor buddy is looking a bit shabby these days.

But lovey him lots.

Congrats Turner's!

This has been a summer of Weddings. Our friends Mitch and Jenn got married in October. We have known them both for about 5 years and it was awesome to see them get married. A couple highlights were:

- Dinner at Market Street - Yum!

- Ollie making the cut for their couple slide show/movie thingy

- Elder Perry performed their sealing in the SLC temple
- Perry calling Mitch "Michelle" and asking Mitch what day it was at the beginning of the sealing and Mitch stating "October 9th"...it was October 7th...Jenn was hitting him and whispering that it was the 7th.

- Cheesecake and Red Velvet cake at the reception

- Andy and Sarah playing with Ollie for most of the reception :)

* For some reason the photographer told Sunny to stand a step above everyone so he is about 7 feet taller than everyone, also, I'm not really sure why Sunny has his hands on Colbie's shoulders.

Smoochies

Congrats Turner's! (another post that should have been posted months ago...)

This has been a summer of Weddings. Our friends Mitch and Jenn got married in October. We have known them both for about 5 years and it was awesome to see them get married. A couple highlights were:

- Dinner at Market Street - Yum!

- Ollie making the cut for their couple slide show/movie thingy

- Elder Perry performed their sealing in the SLC temple
- Perry calling Mitch "Michelle" and asking Mitch what day it was at the beginning of the sealing and Mitch stating "October 9th"...it was October 7th...Jenn was hitting him and whispering that it was the 7th.

- Cheesecake and Red Velvet cake at the reception

- Andy and Sarah playing with Ollie for most of the reception :)

* For some reason the photographer told Sunny to stand a step above everyone so he is about 7 feet taller than everyone, also, I'm not really sure why Sunny has his hands on Colbie's sholders.

Memphis More

I had a few more things to post on from Memphis. We had so much fun at the zoo we went back the day before we left. Ollie LOVED the giraffes. He has a wind up stuffed giraffe he sleeps with every night that plays twinkle twinkle so i like to think that's why he loved them, but he probably doesn't recognize they are the same animal...

We tried to take a picture of him with the giraffes but he would NOT turn around. This is like the grossest picture ever of me, but it cracked me up.

We then went to Elmwood Cemetary which was way creepy and awesome and finding it was almost the best part. It was just at some dead end behind a ghetto neighborhood and train tracks and warehouses. Weird.

We made donuts, and they turned out mostly good. We discovered a bit too late that we had the oil too hot at the end and they weren't cooked all the way through. Doughy donuts are really gross. But the first half of the batch were good.

Finally, the best part of the trip was watching Millie and Ollie play together. Millie is almost 2 and although there were a couple sharing issues and a couple issues with Ollie throwing things and getting scolded by Millie, they were so cute together! He would just stare at her and get all happy when he saw her. She wanted to wear "the baby Ollie's shirt" so she ended up wearing one of his jackets as a shirt one night.

* Note Millie's shirt/jacket is "the baby ollie's".

** Also note the baby, Emma Jean, is 1 month younger than Ollie....as an old southern man informed me about Ollie "That is a FAT baby". Our "little" guy tends to dwarf others his age...

***Also note, this is at Emma Jean's house, aka, Josh and Valerie Miller's. They are some friends from college and live right down the street from Whit. It was fun to see them again too!!

These are their last morning pics. I hope they remember each other and get to be even better friends as they get older!

Kiss good-bye!

Bookworm

My little bookworm

Memphis

Here we are in Memphis. Sunny is hunting with his dad, brother, and some other fam for 4 days so Ollie and I cashed in on some frequent flyer miles and went to Memphis to visit my sister Whitney and her fam.

Ollie was surprisingly tolerable on the plane. He slept for half the trip and mostly happily played for the rest. We got to Memphis Tuesday night and had some delicious BBQ chicken quesedillas at Whit's. Millie (almost 2) and Ollie had one of their first play dates.

Wednesday we went walking in this way cool park (one of the top 10 biggest parks in US) called Shelby Farms. We at dinner at a DELICIOUS pizza place called Mellow Mushroom and went to a really cute toy store. We finished off the day with an intense game of Ticket to Ride.

Thursday we got some fabric to make these way cute owls and elephants and got started sewing.

Thursday night Josh babysat and Whitney and I went downtown to Beale street and got deep fried twinkies with powdered sugar and strawberry sauce. We also saw some old ladies dancing in the street and note the man holding all of their purses.

Friday naps worked out really well and Ollie was super happy and cute all day.

We went to amazing lunch at a BBQ place called Commisary. We got barbequed nachos, Pig Sticks (sweet potato fries with tasty tasty honey mustard dipping sauce), and deviled eggs.

We sewed in the afternoon and then went to the zoo. Ollie got really into the pandas and loved the farm animals too. He even got to pet a sheep. :)

For dinner we met Josh at his Optometry school homecoming party and had more bbq (shredded bbq turkey sandwiches) and played in a bouncy house. On the way home we stopped at Muddy's Bake Shop and got some tasty cupcakes.

Millie and Ollie loving each other.