Baby Milestone - Thirteen Months, and other updates

So after the wonderful birthday celebration, Oliver had his first doctor visit as a "toddler" when he got more vaccination shots. One of which made him get a fever and rash. We were so worried since one of the shots was in the headlines a lot for links to autism. Our doctor says not to worry, but that's useless telling first time parents. Turns out all the side-effects were normal and went away after a few days. However, Oliver had a cold, then we all got sick for 2 weeks.

Oliver now weighs 22 lbs, and is 31 inches tall! Catching up to me very soon. He is very strong too, pulling himself up with only his upper body strength. And he is walking all over the place and climbing 2 flights of stairs every morning in front of the Crunch Gym at the corner of Sunset and Laurel Canyon. He pretty much understands everything I tell him and helps out with putting his dirty diaper in the trash and laundry in the hamper. However, he also has figured out he can scream and cry when I do something he doesn't like.

So Chris and I decided to let our nanny go by the end of September. It was good that since she's been with us I got to work on my book to help new moms, and took the cake decorating class, but the rest of the time I felt like I was creating work to stay busy while she spent time having fun with Oliver. So now that we've set a date, I'm actually using her time better. I'm in the process of putting together a website for myself to show all of my design work, cakes, t-shirts, home decorating stuff, and my book that I finally finished.



We were also looking into finding a bigger home in South Pasadena thinking that we plan ahead for the good school district. We started to look and were disappointed with what we saw. None of the houses have big back yards like we do. Or if people have done updates on their homes, they didn't do a good job at it. And the prices were so high too, and we're just not ready to make a commitment like that. So instead, we are making some smaller updates to our home to freshen it up. So that's been fun too trying to repurpose and redecorate.

Chris has been doing great at work, directing his latest music video for Selena Gomez. It is so good!!! The first time I watched it in rough cut I cried. I can't wait till it's on tv and see how people react to it. I know people will love it and make Selena a big music star!