Our Smart Little Cookie

Waving Bye Bye and more sounds.

Our little man is now waving bye bye, and it is just so adorable. It's so much nicer saying goodbye to him when you get that little wave. Apparently they are supposed to have learnt this skill by about 8 months, but I am still yet to find a baby who has done so. so I think that 9 months is pretty good for this little milestone. Ollie is also learning new sounds. Much to his Nonna's delight, he is now using the nononononon sounds and very often babbles Nonononononona! We are also very sure that his first proper word is going to be Jack (the dogs name). He quite often says "Ja" and lots of the time it is when the dog is around. What a clever little boy.

On Oliver's door we have his name written with some wooden letters. Usually when I walk in and out of his room with him we stop and look at the letters and I spell out the letters and then say "Oliver". Oliver has always loved looking at his name, even when he was really little he used to lie on his change mat, whilst being changed, and giggle at his name. Well in the past two weeks he has started pointed at the letters and uttering noises whenever we get close to the door. I swear he understands, so when he does it I stop and make sure to spend a little more time spelling out his name for him, and he loves it and laughs when I do it.

Pulling Up to Standing!

I'm always so amazed at how quickly babies learn and grow. It's like when they learn a new skill they think, wow I can do this! and then they just do it over and over and over again. For example, whilst at work on Monday morning, Amie (was looking after Oliver for me) rang to tell me that Oliver pulled himself up to his feet all by himself. I was so excited that I didn't even feel too sad that I missed out on seeing one of his firsts. Anyway, by the time I got home he was a pro at doing it, and just did it over and over and over again. Yesterday, when Craig got home from work, Ollie heard him opening the door and he crawled to the front door and waited for Craig to come through the door. When Craig came through the door he crawled right up to him and pulled himself up on his legs. Awwwwww that is just too cute!

More Teeth!

Oliver's third tooth is coming through! Not much to really say about it, it has been pretty pain free so far, but I don't want to jinx myself.

9 Month Weight and Height

I forgot to write in my last post about Oliver's 9 month weight and height check. Oliver's stats at 9 months were:

Height: 71cm (45th percentile)

Weight: 9 kilos (40th percentile)

Seems like the little man is starting to slow down in growth, but you could never tell, because he looks just SO chubby!!!

Mumma's Boy is Crawling!

Crawling!!!

On Monday this week (2nd August) Oliver started crawling. It was amazing, just the night before I was helping him move forward and thinking to myself 'this little man is never going to crawl!' he wasn't showing many signs. He would push up on his hands and knees but that was it. He wouldn't commando crawl, he would crawl backwards, so I just thought well it will happen when it happens. So Monday morning I took him to Dad and Mum's house so Dad could look after him whilst I went to work. I put him on the mat to play and turned around to go and make his breakfast when I hear Dad say "ohhhh he's crawling?" and then I turn around and there he is crawling, as clear as day. And not some kind of starter crawl, no he was doing the most perfect crawl there was. Each hand and knee was placed in the each position perfectly, no legs being left behind or anything. At first he could only crawl on carpet and brick floors as he was having trouble with slippery surfaces. But now we are proud to announce our little man is doing very well crawling all over our slippery floor boards and getting to all those naughty places :O)

I think that a baby first learns no when they start moving around, because there are a lot of no's. NO Oliver don't touch that, NO Oliver don't go over there, NO Oliver, leave the dog alone! Hahaha but it's so super cute and I just love it now he is moving around.

And to top it off he has started pulling himself up on things as well, so cute, I think that he won't take too long to learn to walk.

2nd Tooth!

Oliver got his first tooth on the 13th of July, I'm not sure if I

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at already, but just 2 weeks later out pops the second one. So quick! He is so cute with his two little teeth. And I think that they top teeth wont take long to come out either as he has started to really rub on those ones as well.

So with teeth comes the toothbrush. Oliver has always, for some reason, found it hilarious when Craig and I brush our teeth in front of him. He just sits there and laughs at us. So now that he has his own teeth we let him brush his teeth with us. First I give his two little teeth a scrub and then whilst I am brushing my teeth he brushes his teeth. He is so super cute, and looks so proud of himself.

Ollie has been a little bit of a Mumma's Boy this week. He cried for the first time ever on Wednesday when I left him at Child Care. It was so heartbreaking for me to walk away from him when he was crying. You have to go against all your motherly insticts, it's just horrible. And ever since then he has been very very clingy to me, not wanting to spend much time out of my arms if I am around, or out of Craig's arms if I am not there.

And he is sick again!!!! Poor little thing has a rash all over his body, I had to do a quick doctor run today (a sunday) to get him checked out. Luckily we have a doctors office who is open on Sunday's. Anyway it turns out it is a viral rash, poor guy, he's been so out of sorts, and there is absolutely nothing you can do for it. It seems that he is sick all the time, and he has maybe 3 days off from being sick and then he is sick again. It must be so tiring for him, but he's a brave little fella and is still the most beautiful child or being there ever was.

Every night I go into his room, just before we go to bed and I say a little prayer for him and give him lots of kisses on his face. I then go into our room and say to Craig "Have I ever told you how much I love that little man?" and of course I have because I say it every day. I still can't find the words to explain just how much I love him and how much he brings to our lives.