All the words I say....A photo show of all of my words!

MAMA
DADA and PAPA
UH-OH WHICH HE SAYS EVERY TIME HE THROWS DOWN A WATER BOTTLE!
ABBY. ABBY IS OUR DOGS NAME. HE PRONOUNCES IT ABBA. HE THINKS ALL DOGS ARE CALLED ABBA. WHEN HE SEES ANOTHER DOG HE SAYS ABBA AND WAVES AT THEM. IT'S SO CUTE!
BYE, WITH A LITTLE WAVE!

Oliver is getting quite the little vocabulary. He says six words already. We of course think he's just so smart! This is such a fun stage. I'm loving every minute of it!

Aunt Lianna's Birthday

Today is my sister Lianna's Birthday! Happy Birthday Smoosh!! Here are a couple of pictures of my little sis!

ALWAYS
UNDERSTANDING
NATURALLY
TERRIFIC

LOVING
INDEPENDENT
ADORABLE
NUTTY
NOBLE
ATTENTIVE

We love you Lianna!!!

Any day now!

Oliver will be running any day now! Here is a cute video of Oliver walking with the little push car our friend loaned us! (thanks Heather) Too fun!

The Joy of Oliver

Today my baby boy is 9 months old. I can't even believe how quickly the time has flown right by. I enjoy each day I am able to spend watching the miracle that he is in our home. I love watching Oliver grow and learn new things each and everyday. I feel so blessed to be his mother and even more blessed to be able to stay home and experience this time with him.

Oliver has such a sweet personality. He lights up the room with his smile and giggles. He's the life of the party all the time at our house. It's so amazing to see the different sides of Oliver. He can be shy also.

I never dreamed I could love someone as much as I love Roberto, but now that I'm a mom I know that I can. It's amazing to see how your heart opens up to make room for your little ones.

I love this little guy!!!

So many new things...

I feel like this whole weekend was one of milestones for Oliver! As I mentioned a few posts ago he has been saying mama for a couple of weeks now! This past Saturday he started saying Dada! That was very exciting for Berto! Then yesterday morning before church when I was feeding him his breakfast he started kissing. It was so darn cute. And the other thing he did yesterday was started saying "Uh Oh." It sounds more like "uhhhohh" but we get what he's saying. Oliver LOVES to play with water bottles so he started throwing one on the ground and saying "uhhohh." TOO CUTE!!

Also on the walking front I think it's going to be any day now. Last week he started every now and then letting go and taking a few steps... I know my life is over! :)

Enjoy the video clips!! Oliver felt like performing his new tricks this morning so I took advangage!

Some Summer Fun

Last week Oliver and I went to the beach with my friend Heather and her two kids Paige and Nash! It was a nice day and we had a blast! The weather was just right and Oliver loved digging his hands in the sand. As hard as I tried he did eat a little but it was a good day!

On Saturday we went out to Upland and visited our friends Greg, Carol Ann and Ethan. We always love hanging out with them! They have been house sitting for Greg's parents and had a TON of YUMMY plums and peaches. Oliver went to town when I let him have some plum. In fact every time I tried to pull the plum away so that I could take more of the skin off he'd cry. I think he figured out what those teeth are for! :) He was loving it!

The Oxi Clean Guy

So Oliver is obsessed with Billy Mays (the voice of Oxiclean). I guess he must just like the sound of his voice or something but any time he hears his voice he stops and turns to the T.V. He can be walking around, playing with his toys, nursing, eating it doesn't matter he stops and stares at the T.V. Even just now I was trying to figure out how to post the commercial on my blog and played a clip from You Tube... his head went straight to the t.v. and he looked so confused when he wasn't seeing Billy Mays. It is the funniest thing!

The joy of first words...

Oliver said his first word this week... it was MAMA!!!! It's so cute. He'll repeat it after me and he just walk around saying "mama, mama!" It made my year!

Oliver's First Girlfriend

So our friends Mike & Jera had a little girl just a couple of weeks after Oliver was born. Jera and I have been planning their wedding ever since! :) I got a couple of cute pictures of them playing at the park this past week at our weekly playgroup! They really don't even interact hardly but it's still so cute to see them sitting there together!

Almost Walking

So Oliver is getting around quite well these days! He makes his rounds around the coffee table and anywhere else he can manage! It's pretty darn cute! He's also starting to get brave... for about a week now he's been reaching for the ottoman from the coffee table and figured out he could grab my shirt and easily get from the coffee table to something else that was just out of his reach... well the fun has begun ... today he let go of the coffee table with both hands and just stood there for a minute until he fell on his butt! Too cute... and a little scary. It looks like I'm going to have an early walker on my hands... he's only 8 months old! Enjoy these cute little video clips!

Hair

So Oliver needs a hair cut! His hair is growing so long! It's so cute though! We have been playing with his hair from time to time.... the spikes won't stay for long but they sure do make cute pictures! :)

4th of July

For the most part we had a pretty laid back day. We just hung out at home and rested! It was nice having Berto home with us on a Friday to just bum around! In the afternoon we went over to Berto's cousin Ceci's house for a BBQ and swimming! It was fun! The food was yummy (Thanks Ceci and Conchi) and the swimming was fun! Oliver had a blast floating around in his little wave runner floaty... and then when we took him out he had a blast splashing the water like he does in the bathtub! All in all it was a good day. We didn't see the fireworks... well a few on our drive home. Oliver was extra tired and just wasn't going to make it for another minute. In fact he conked out the minute I set him in his carseat (that never happens without a little crying) and he didn't even stir when we took him out and laid him in bed! Oliver likes to watch everything that's going on and can't miss a minute if there are people around (aside from us) so he won't nap or anything if he can fight it and he was! But it was still a fun day!....

A Fun Day with Family at the Park

Today we went to a park in Huntington Beach to meet some family. My cousin Sarah graduated from UCLA and is joining the Peace Corps and heading off to Africa for two years, so we got together for a picnic in her honor. It was a fun park and Oliver had fun on the swings and sliding down the slide with daddy! It was nice seeing family. It was very breezy... almost cold in Orange County today so it was nice to get away from the blazing heat of Moreno Valley!

My Baby Boy is growing up....

So for a few weeks now Oliver has been pulling himself up and walking along the coffee table. He hasn't shown much of an interest in crawling... finally he has started crawling. He will only crawl if we lure him with a remote control. I don't know why but he is SO fascinated with remotes and will only crawl if one is in his path! So we keep putting the remote on the floor to get him moving! It's the cutest thing to watch!

Day at the Park

We took Oliver to the park this afternoon. It's been over 100 everyday for the past few days, but we decided it would be fun to make a quick trip to the park. There was a fun little water feature that Roberto and Oliver kept going in (I got sprayed just standing by and it was so nice to get splashed with water). We couldn't tell if Oliver liked the water or not. He didn't cry but he didn't seem all that excited about it either so I guess that's a good sign! :)

Happy Father's Day Honey

Today is Roberto's first official Father's Day!! He got his very own hand made Father's Day card from Oliver and me!

Also, I was making dinner and Berto was "watching" Oliver. Well I hear Oliver making noise in the living room. I looked around the corner and saw Oliver sitting on the couch and Berto "sleeping." I guess he thought Oliver wouldn't throw himself forward if his head was right there! Oliver was having a great time scratching and playing with Berto's face. It was pretty funny!

You're Standing, You're Standing

Oliver hasn't shown much interest in crawling until recently. I would say in the last two weeks he's really decided he wants to figure out how to move. He'll get onto his all fours to try and get a toy and then sit there with a look on his face that says "Now What??" He also will rock back and forth as if he's trying to get momentum going to push him forwards, but every time he tries to actually move he goes backwards! At about the same time he started trying to crawl he started trying to pull up on everything. He can get almost all the way around the coffee table, we just follow him along so he doesn't crack his head open, but he's doing it himself! It's so cute to watch. We are really trying to focus on crawling though because it's so important for brain development.

I love watching him go around the coffee table. His chubby little legs are so cute when they're stomping around!

Babbling Baby

Oliver has always been a very vocal baby. It's so fun to see and hear him while he's babbling! I was able to catch this on video yesterday.... hopefully he'll start staying mama soon! :)

Cute pictures of my cute son

Last week Oliver and I went out to my friend Heather's. She is always so obliging and takes great pictures of Oliver. Here are just a few. They are so cute!!

Bruises, Adventures, and Tears

Yesterday we had our first catastrophe with Oliver trying to pull himself up. He was pulling up on the coffee table (I had my hand blocking the edge but somehow he missed it) and managed to bonk the bridge of his nose on the coffee table. The picture of him smiling is the next day... it's a little bruised but it's hard to tell in this picture. Obviously he's not too bothered by the accident. He's a happy little camper today! :)

A couple of days ago I had Oliver playing on the floor with his toys. I went to wash out his sippy cup and when I came back he had pulled himself onto his knees and was peeking over the edge of the coffee table smiling at me. It was so cute. Well this morning I did the same thing left him playing with his toys for a few minutes while I walked away to take care of something. Well when I came back I saw his cute little face peaking over the coffee table at me only this time when I walked around to see him.... he was almost doing the splits. It was the funniest thing! I'm glad he didn't fall... that would have been hard. But it was so cute to see. He had this little look that seemed to be saying... " look at what I did mommy!" It was adorable!

Silly Things

On Memorial Day our ward has an annual picnic and softball game at a local park. We went and Roberto played softball! He found out he's not as young as he thinks he is! :) He was sore for a couple of days after playing. I visited with the other moms while our babies played. It was fun!!
Above is a picture of Oliver and Roberto at the park!

Tbe other picture is Roberto sleeping. He wore himself out playing with Oliver's toys! :) Actually Oliver was there but playing but the picture was much more funny with Roberto by himself!

My Busy Boy.... We're in trouble now!

Oliver has been becoming a little more adventurous. If he wants something he'll dive for it, he ends up on all fours with a look that says "oh no mommy, what do I do now??" Today he started trying to pull himself up on things. The coffee table and the pole to his jumper toy.... like I said we're in trouble.

The cutest thing today though was the picture above. I had him sitting on the floor playing with a few toys while I did some things for my mom on the computer. I looked over and he had pulled his basket of toys over to him tipped it over and was trying to play with everything... it was the cutest thing. Being a mom is so much fun. I love seeing the new things Oliver learns everyday!!

Tornado's in Moreno Valley... What??

So yesterday was CRAZY!! We had a very strange spring storm that included nothing else but a tornado.... I thought I left tornado's behind in Wisconsin but apparently not. The tornado touched down at March Air Force Base just a mere 7 miles away from our house. It then crossed the freeway and tipped over a semi truck and a freight train. And according to the news (and the picture I got from their website) it even at one point split into two tornado's. It was very strange and very scary. The thunderstorm even felt like a mid-western storm NOT a California storm. The thunder and lightning was loud and scary and our neighbors tree was struck by lightning. (They are at the bottom of our long street so it luckily wasn't right next door or anything). Very crazy weather none the less!

Photo Contest Update

Hi Everyone:

Roberto went to vote this evening and it was a lengthy process that involved going through a bunch of adds. I didn't realize when I submitted the photo that it would require so much. I don't want to impose on anyone so please don't worry about voting for Oliver. It was just a fun thing but I wouldn't vote for something if I had to look at a bunch of offers and don't expect any of you to! Thanks so much!

Elizabeth

Photo Contest

I just entered this photo of Oliver in a photo contest. I would love it if you could follow the link and help me get votes! Thanks!


https://www.greatamericanphotocontest.com/voter1/
index.aspx?referid=EmailFriends&p=546483&x=.jpg


Elizabeth

Arizona Trip

With Grandpa Roberto
Tia Elena and Melinqui
With Grandpa, Grandma & Daddy

Grandma & Grandpa Galindo
With Grandma Tere Below

We just returned from spending a few days with Berto's parents, aunt and grandpa! We had a nice time in Queen Creek, AZ with them! They loved spending time with Oliver (and spoiling him) it was fun for all of us! Oliver LOVED looking at their dog Melinqui. He's not used to such a big dog but he liked looking at him and every time Melinqui licked his feet he'd laugh!! It was about as hot there as it was here the only difference is it cools down in good old Moreno Valley in the evenings and it was still 90 degrees when we left at eight o'clock last night! Yuck! :) Roberto's mom babysits their neighbors little 2 year old during the week. He was there on Thursday. He was so cute and LOVED Oliver. He came over with his mom on Friday night and Oliver was already asleep... He was NOT happy about that he wanted to see the baby. Too cute! Anyway, we're glad we were able to spend some time with Berto's family! It was fun.... here are some pictures from our trip!

Cute Boy

This is just a cute little clip I took of Oliver today. He was sucking his thumb and blowing bubbles and just being all around adorable! Enjoy!

Mother's Day

Today was my first official Mother's Day! Sunday mornings are always a little hectic trying to get up and get all three of us ready for 9:00 am church. But this morning was nice! It seemed like Oliver knew it was mother's day. I was sitting on the couch and he was sitting next to me and started hugging my arm. It was the best thing I could have received on Mother's Day!! I loved it! I love being a mom and I feel so blessed to have an adorable and sweet little boy like Oliver and a wonderful husband Roberto!!

Happy Mother's Day to all of you mommies out there!!

Love,
Elizabeth

Hollywood Night

So last weekend out ward (for those of you that don't know what a ward is, it's the congregation of people we attend church with) had a fun activity. It was a "Hollywood Night." We were supposed to come dressed up as different celebrities. Berto and I dressed up as Sandra Bullock and Benjamin Bratt in Miss Congeniality. It was a lot of fun. And they decorated the gym at the church so cutely! The highlight of the night though was the entertainment! Roberto was in one of the acts. They did a little dance to "These boots were made for walkin' " and Berto dressed up like a nerd and was pushed around by all of these women. His dancing is hilarious! Enjoy the fun pictures!!

Six Months Old

Wow how the time truly does fly by!! My little man is already six months old. I can't even believe it. I took him in on Monday for his six month physical and shots. He was such a trooper. Poor little guy. So he weighed in at 24 lbs 11 ounces and is 28 1/4 inches long. He's a big boy... but not just big he's pretty tall for his age too!!
And what a sweet boy! I love being Oliver's mom it is such a joy!