Oliver is nine months.

Oliver enjoys eating. Sleeping. Playing (favorite toys are his stacking cups, music table and musical radio). Crawling (he is fast and can often be seen headed towards the bathroom.) Baths (the more people in the bathtub the better). Reagan (although I do not think the love is mutual). Playing outside. Balls (stealing Reagan's are the best). And attempting to drink water (yep, most of it ends up on his shirt.)

He loves his walker.  The balls in it are probably his favorite.  He can stand on his own but would rather crawl than attempt to walk.

 You can barely see the fireplace in this picture but Oliver gets into a lot of trouble up there.  He steals the fireplace rocks and drives daddy nuts.  The bathroom is another of Oliver's favorite hiding spots.  Bathtub toys are a big draw and a toilet seat that is left up.

 The night Oliver turned nine months (3/4 of a year).  It is hard to remember before we had this little guy in our family.  He fits in perfectly. 

Oliver's baptism

Oliver was baptized on July 20. He was baptized at the same church as me and Hady. The same church mommy and daddy got married in. We even got to help with the baptism! Oh, and he wore the same outfit as me when I got baptized. He just left the hat on a little longer.

School time!

So school started a few weeks ago...end of endless days at the lake and summer fun but back to school with a room full of new and old friends.

I loved kindergarten and first grade has been a blast so far.  I have two great friends from my kindergarten class with me in first grade and a ton of new friends that I know will be great too.  My favorite part of school remains gym, library and recess.  But I am pretty excited about my new book I am writing.  So here is to a great year in Ms. Glenn's first grade class!

 Hady started her second year of preschool.  She gets to have the same preschool teacher as last year and most of her friends have returned.  She loves arts and crafts time, playtime with her best buds and we hope she learns a little bit too.

 

I know mommy and Oliver miss us while we are at school.  Oliver gets so excited to see my face after a day away.  They will have fun too and we will still fit in a whole lot of playing after school and on the weekends!

Summer on the water.

Oh, we spend the summer lake hopping.  Spending the night with Papa and Nana, having Camp Laughlin on Grandview lake, fishing, skiing, wakeboarding, tubing, swimming, sliding, jumping, splashing and just plain playing.  It really is something to remember.  Each year, we get a little older but summer on the lake is always good...real good.

Reagan has grown a lot older, she enjoys sun bathing.  But still will swim for hours.

 This year I have improved a lot.  On the wakeboard and on skies.

 This guy is teaching me everything I need to know.

 We snuck down to the party cove at Lake Lemon while the little kids slept.

 

 

 Oliver's 9 month birthday...a little photo session and a boat ride.  He was the captain.

 Fishing is something I could do all day.  It makes me happy.  Even when there isn't much catching.

 Reagan trying some fishing of her own.

 Caught one.

 Oliver isn't into wakeboarding or skiing yet, doesn't even really swim but he does a little tubing of his own.  And enjoys playing in the sand...mommy spends her time keeping it out of his mouth.

 Hady might be a fisherman after all.  This year she decided she wanted to touch fish...each and every one of them.

 Splish, splash.

 Jumping.

 And sliding.

Lake time is definitely not over when school starts.  But it becomes weekends at the lake...then in the fall the activities change a little but the location can remain the same.

More summer. (The fair.)

The fair has quickly become a tradition of ours.  It is fun.  So fun.  I would go all week long but mommy seems to think one day or sometimes two is enough.  This fair week we were super busy because it was the last week of summer vacation so we only got to to one afternoon/evening.  We fit everything in though and Oliver was a trooper.  He got hauled around in the baby carrier from one place to the next.  Luckily, the weather was cooler which made for a perfect fair day.

We went on kids day.  There was all kind of extra fun including this rock wall.  We scaled it many times.

 Cotton candy and PBS kids characters!

 Fancy face painting with glitter.

 Bracelets.

 And rides...as always the slide is probably a family favorite.

 Oh, and the chicken picture.  I will probably be 18 sitting on top of this chicken for mommy!

 Oliver's first fair.