Odie's First Birthday!!!

Well, needless to say, Odie had a wonderful first birthday bash! Aunt Saundra showed up and surprised us all!

Oliver loves all of his gifts, and had a great time eating his cake! He even slimed his Mom a little!

I think I'm going to invent an easier way to package toys though...it took Jason and I rest of the night to get all his toys out of the boxes!

Here are some pictures of Odie's Big Day!!!

Lexi and Beckham playing in Odie's new playroom!

Odie just loves balloons!!


Playing in his playroom with his new toys!

Halloween!

Even though we were ramping up for Odie's party, we managed to sneak in a few hours to go over to Uncle Jeff and Aunt Julie's for Odie's first Halloween bash! They had 2 trick or treaters, but we were prepared with lots of candy ;)

Odie got to open a few birthday presents from Uncle Jeff and Aunt Julie and from Great Grandma and Grandpa Young...


Unfortunately, he was more interested in the dog presents...you know...you can only try so hard to keep dog toys out of his mouth, and then you give up...


The girls all had a great time...Agnes and Olive were very proud of their glow-in-the-dark PJ's...they kept trying to get someone to take them into the closet so they could glow :)

Odie's 1 year pics!

His hair is combed to the side, just for Grandma Feazel!!

A trip to the pumpkin patch!

Yesterday Jason, Oliver and I met up with Grandma and Grandpa Garrett at the pumpkin patch!

By mid-afternoon, the wind had picked up quite a bit, so it was a short but fruitful trip...(get it...fruitful...ha ha ha)

Odie loved his pumpkin and cried when we took it away. He sat with it the whole time we were at the farm!

His new thing is to get inside the dog cage and close himself in....it's pretty funny. He also drags the enamelware dog bin across the tile because it's the loudest thing imaginable...thank God for DVR, eh? :)

New things everyday!

Odie is now creeping all around the living room....he loves making laps around the coffee table!

This also means that he falls down a lot more....which means we have several Odie pity-parties a day now...lol.

He has switched to whole milk (yay no more formula) and has eaten peanut butter...and he is still alive...so I think that went well...so now he can have PB&J's for lunch...(yay...another easy meal for Mom!!)

In order to gain the girls' trust, Odie has been feeding them any chance he gets...he had a wonderful time taunting Hermie with animal crackers last night...

After giving Odie a bath last night, I went to grab his high chair tray to wash it...but when I got there it was spotless...even though Trudy is the oldest...she's the only one brave enough to span the distance between the high chair and the couch for some leftover pulled pork and mixed fruit...little bugger...

Here's a pic of him eating dinner last night from my phone....

The Final Camping Trip of the Year!

Almost two weeks ago, a bunch of us got together for a camping weekend up at Snow Lake. It was a bit chilly at night and in the morning, but we all had a great time...and we all had heat...except Chris and Lynette...ha ha ha.

Here are a few pics of our camping adventure!

Our "sympathy" hayride since they canceled the Halloween weekend!
Time for a ride!
Hangin' out with Isabella and Aunt Tracy!

New things in Odieland...

So Oliver has been learning new things everyday!

He has officially perfected crawling and is pulling up everywhere! He stands on the gate into the kitchen like a prison inmate...now if I can just keep him from chewing on my coffee table...and who said kids weren't just like dogs??

Speaking of dogs, my wonderful sweetie Francine decided to projectile vomit this liquidy bile stuff all over the wall by the back door. She must have done this when I left the room, so I didn't see it at first...

A few minutes later I see Oliver all covered in..."something" and I start looking around and I realize he is covered in Francine puke....sigh.



It only took Hermie .2 seconds to realize that Odie feeds her....do you think she wants something???

Labor Day Weekend

Finally, some nice weather! We all went up to Grandma and Grandpa Young's for some lakeside fun!

We all had a great time....Jeffrey brought the bean bag toss, and we brought the wii and hooked it up outside after dark for some twilight bowling :) It was a lot of fun!

Odie and Mom!

oohhh...a zipper! Thanks Aunt Julie!!

Bowl Grandpa Bowl!
oohhh... I want to play too!!!

Oliver's 9 (actually 10) Month appointment

Oliver's check-up went well! Dr. Hart says that his skills are above average...which we already knew...of course ;)

He now weighs 19lbs 15oz and is 28 3/4 inches tall.

He got a flu shot, which he wasn't too happy about, but other than that, everything went great...and we were even out of there in a little over 30 minutes!

Finally...a weekend at home!

Last week was a big week for Oliver! He is now standing up in his crib and pulling himself up to the coffee table...he also pulls himself up to the gate into the kitchen and yells at it like an inmate...apparently patience isn't something that you are born with...lol.


On Saturday, we went to Jeff and Julie's and had dinner with my parents. Odie had a great time playing with the doggies, especially Gracie...she's so sweet and even handled Oliver stealing her bone...and trying to eat it himself, of course :)