almost one year

Where did this year go???? How is my little boy almost one year old????  So much has happened in the last year and I have tried my hardest to blog a lot but it is surreal to me that my little 8.1lbs baby is almost walking...  Every day he gets more and more independent and he changes so fast it is scary.  I just looked through some pictures of him from our trip to Germany this past May and he already looks different.  I guess because I see him every day I do not see the changes as much, but they are there....  his hair is really full and super light and curly.  Thanks to the sun it is really blond and speaking of sun - his little legs are super tan and it is a nice tan a really deep golden tan.  He almost reminds me of a typical California Surfer Dude...

Last weekend we took him for the first time to the pool and he had a blast.

Here a few pictures:

playing with Daddy's Iphone 

first swing set :) Fun for the whole family :) 

Just Pictures

Oliver is now 11 months old and I wanted to share some of my favorites...

Having fun with Daddy 

First 4th of July

crawling up the stairs

4th of July Weekend

Every year Catonsville has a lot of things to offer for the 4th of July.  We are going to the parade and are super excited to share this experience with Oliver.  Being from Germany the small town parade feel is just like I've seen it in the movies Catonsville 4th of July.  And for one day only (and every Friday for the Catonsville live music) no one really cares that you are drinking beer in public! 

we are also hosting our 3rd annual Lamb 4th of July party.  Last year we had one baby guest (Shane)  and two more were on the way (shout out to Aria and Oliver) but this year we have three mobile babies, one infant (Fin) and one on the way (Mai) so I am anxious to see how these babies will hold up in the parade heat and how it will be with Oliver and Frankee during the fireworks (another awesome thing we have basically in our backyard).