8 Months Old and Counting..

Well, Oliver was 8 months old like 2 months ago.. You won't judge will you? :) Things have been in full gear over at the Barnsley household! Besides Oliver being a busy little body, I have been granted the ultimate privilege of planning our 10 year high school reunion! Note to self… When you want to be a class officer and think of how great it will be for college applications, etc… think further down the road.. Like…..10 years further down the road… Anyways, that's where I've been… That and staying busy with the Ollie boy! So, here I am ready to document Oliver at 8 months old.. This is kinda like my new version of scrapbooking, after all.

* Oliver started really being a lover around 8 months! Hugging, intentionally smiling and giggling at us, an all around fun little guy! 

* He was teething pretty bad around this time which meant he was more irritable, Mr. Fussy Pants and shoving anything he could into his mouth and against his gums.. Fun for me, Daddy had a few out of town trips during this time, so Mr. Fussy Pants was of course extra fussy for Momma! 

* He started to army crawl! He isn't one to get onto his knees and rock… He just plows through everything, dragging his little tummy and making his poor little elbows all red.  

* He LOVES grabbing his toes and feet and pulling em' up to his mouth! Such flexibility these babies have, i'm telling you what! 

* He got to meet the Easter Bunny for the first time at the NICU Easter Egg Hunt. He smiled so big once he felt how soft he was.. 

* He is starting to like more and more foods like squash, sweet potato, carrots, banana, avocado.. 

* We celebrated his first Easter with Gam Gam and Papo! (I'll do a separate Easter post, because we had so much fun!) 

* He got to swing for the first time and loved going to the playground! We'll be spending lots of time at the park!

* He mumbles "MumMum" so I'll take that for Mama… It's just too much to handle when he says that and reaches up for me… My heart just explodes! 

* We had a wonderful visit from Nana and Papa! We celebrated Dada and Papa's birthdays! (separate post as well!) 

Now for the fun part.. Here's our baby at 8 months old! We love you so much Ollie! You light up our lives!  

Right when he stands up, he smiles.. He wants to
be a big boy so bad!

Hopefully next year will go this smoothly!

oh how i love you, bunny boy!

Curious George

Oliver, you are cute, but man did I marry a hunk! Dang.
I'm a lucky girl!

Teething: Exhibit A

Sophie the Giraffe.  Best invention ever!

ok, ok.. I played a sick (really sick) joke on Jesse for April Fools..
He didn't fall for it though.. I am so bad!
(I did get my sisters though.)

Loves his Aunt Denise and Kathy! Especially those shiny bracelets! 

And boy does he LOVE his DADA!

so not ok. Oliver.. you will not be allowed
out of the house when you get older! This is not a baba! 

Cowboy Ciao's 

i stopped breathing for a second when i came in and didn't see him!
Then.. I saw this.. The inchworm.

no he does NOT wear v-necks.. he stretches them out when he crawls. 

the goofiest and BEST glasses ever! He lives under the sun
about 360 days outta the year.. I had to! 

ok.. ok.. you can have whatever you want with those eyes!

buddies forever. 

yes. i did lock him out because he was NOT being nice.
SOWWIIEEE… don't make Mama mad! 

the chunky monkey

yup. looks good Oli boy! 2 a days have started
and ya' got the carry hold down! 

taking over the couch. such a boy.

We love Miss Judy! 

lots of family time in the backyard. 

finally got to meet Miss April and the boys! We LOVE YOU!

swingin'

drinking out of his big boy sippy cup. 

oh, you have my heart little guy.

the busy body. all day long.