Little climber

As a parent you're so impressed with every new little thing your child does. We think it's pretty impressive that Oli climbs this ladder on his own! By the way I love how he makes sure his milk comes with him.

The blue chair

My friend Celeste gave Oliver this blue chair and he loves it. He decided this was the spot for his chair. When I put it away in his room he brought it back out and placed it on the same spot. He doesn't want it anywhere else but in this specific spot. I've noticed he is a little bit OCD at times. Hmm, I wonder who he gets that from?

He's back to his happy, silly self and still recovering from the infection.

Ear Infection

I'm hoping to print this blog into a book one day so some of the things I post are for my own journaling purposes; this is one of them. Oliver was getting over a cold recently but it ended in him getting his first ear infection. It was so bad that his eyes swelled up and he had green stuff coming out of them from all the drainage from his little head. I kept Oli away from friends, so no play dates. I didn't take him to his usual music class, story time, etc. because of the weather and I didn't want him to get other kids sick. Needless to say it's been a tough week.

Poor Oli

A very cold day

Believe it or not this is Florida. No leaves on the trees, 30 degrees this morning and it's supposed to be 17 degrees tonight. We're wearing 4 layers to keep warm, but I know our family and friends from up North don't really sympathize.

Our walk for this afternoon was to the mailbox and back home.

Oli & Elmo

There was this whole new world out there that I never knew about: Elmo's World. Up until a month ago Oliver enjoyed Baby Einstein and Baby Boost (nursery rhymes) and wasn't interested in any characters or cartoons. Now the only thing he wants to watch is Elmo. He laughs at everything Elmo has to say and loves to imitate whatever is going on in the video. I've tried playing his other videos but he won't stop saying Elmo's name until I play it for him. When he wakes up every morning the first thing he does is ask for milk and the second thing is get his two Elmo dolls from the toy basket. This afternoon he got upset at me because I threw his Elmos in the toy basket and didn't sit them on the couch next to him. The boy is Elmo's biggest fan.

He never wants to wear his shoes unless they're his Elmo slippers.

Christmas 2009

This year we went to St. Petersburg for Christmas so we had Oliver open his Santa gifts on the 23rd. He didn't fully understand that it was okay to rip his gifts open but he was really happy with what he got! Our Christmas gift was finding out about our little girl :)