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Oliver’s Perspective
At Christmas O got a camera from Auntie M, so far he’s run the batteries down, filled the memory card once, and taken dozens of nowhere close to in focus pictures. I was recently inspired to upload the most recent batch of blurry perspectives, and thought I’d share a few.
More of O’s fine work is now up in an album entitled Oliver’s Perspectives at my picasa.
choo-choo cake
Yesterday O turned 3, so today we celebrated with “choo-choo cake.”
Miss E and her family joined us to help celebrate. Together she and O made pinecone bird feeders, ran around the backyard, had cupcakes, opened presents, and generally had a very fun morning.
More photos of the party in the January 2012 album.
Christmas Tree 2011
Today I brought in our Christmas tree. To the best of my knowledge it is the tree that I bought back in 2009 for O’s first Christmas, now it will get to see P’s first Christmas as well, and hopefully (with some help from our drip system and a fair bit of neglect) it will see many more Christmases to come.
It is a fairly special tree, it has two top bits. I didn’t have two tree toppers, just the Mutant Attack Penguin from when Gavin informed me I needed a “hobby” and I dabbled in origami, so I decided to make some. I googled around for DIY tree topper ideas disliked 99% of them and improvised on my own, the end results: an origami representation of our Lizard Overlords and a star.
Oliver and I had a fair bit of fun decorating the tree. He said “wow!” a lot and was thrilled that the lights were on. He also discovered last years candy canes, of the original 6 there are now 3… now that I think of they might’ve been from the year before. Patrick stood in his go-pod and watch the activity with great interest, thankfully the tree is out of his reach (for now).
In another week or so I’ll haul the presents out of their Top Secret Hiding Place and finish putting labels and bows on them.
Solid
Patrick has always been passionate about food. Shortly after his grand entrance into the world, he latched on with great vigor, enthusiasm, and nursed in a passionate, but very efficient manner. When offered bottles of expressed milk, he sucked them down as well.
P had been making passes at things on the table from the moment he figured out how to coordinate his hands. He joined us as the table as soon as he had enough core control to slouch upright in his booster seat, and last Monday he “officially” started on solids at lunch time.
Baby's First Rice Gruel. Yes, I know, he should've worn a bib.
Until last Monday, P had accidentally had a mouthful of oatmeal, and a bit of super-mild guacamole. Last Monday, P started on rice gruel. So far he has had the baby “first-foods” apples and pears, and a super-over-ripe banana that got pressed through the baby food mill.
Real food has become an instant hit, with super-over-ripe banana being the most popular so far. The transition has gone well, and solids for P are a regular lunchtime occurrence.
Happy Halloween 2011
Happy Halloween from the cutest pumpkins on the block.
More photos in the October Album at Kindli’s Picasa.
he said “sure, why not?”
Pumpkin Picking 2011
Today the boys and I went pumpkin picking, our friend Dana came along as well, and we had a fun afternoon at Muelrath Ranches (where we’ve gone the past two years).
Oliver picked two pumpkins (one large, one small), and two gourds which we intend to dry. Patrick snuggled up to Dana in the ergo, and then was grumpily extracted for some photos.
More photos are up in our October photo album!
Blocks!
After the Epic Fail of the Trains and frustrated few weeks of no Interesting Toys (several of them were confiscated after they flew into the baby’s head/enclosure), I decided that it was time to try something new.
I dug around in the garage for the Big Box of Maple Blocks that Used to be Gavin’s, vacuumed out the pine needles, and we spent the afternoon building simple platforms with ramps to race trucks up and down.
So far, O has been good about keeping the blocks on the table (a requirement for them to stay out), and they kept him busy most of the afternoon. Continue reading
A Pumpkin & A Star Trek Officer walk to the Park
We spent much of today helping our friend Miss E celebrate her third birthday. Miss E had a costume party at Ragle Park, so I raided our costume bin for inspiration.
Patrick went as a little pumpkin, he fit Oliver’s pumpkin outfit from 2009 perfectly, so perfectly, I may have to cut the footies off for it to fit for Halloween this year. P was hailed as “adorable” and mistaken for a little girl a few times (pumpkins are nice and gender neutral).
Oliver, Gavin and I went as Star Trek officers (2010′s costume pick). I was unable to borrow Elizabeth’s sexy little red dress (it would make breastfeeding almost impossible), so I wore a red shirt and my LOTR elf ears (I was a Vulcan, and the pointy ears are nice and generic), most of the time P dozed in the Ergo. It didn’t really matter that I wasn’t wearing a Star Trek insignia pin, the ears, red shirt, and accompanying Star Trek Officers filled in the gaps.
The boys and I got compliments on our coordinated costumes, and inevitably people asked if we were Star Trek fans. Yes and no. Yes, we’ve watched all of TNG, but no, we’re not the types who go to conventions, or learn the languages, and I don’t know minute Star Trek trivia (although I think Gavin might know some). I like the costumes because they were simple (and inexpensive) to make, fairly unique among our circle of friends, and easy to spot across the room (or park, which can be really useful when there are lots of kids around).
We received a compliment from one of the other mothers, O was “playing so nicely” with her son – a 1 1/2 year old, holding his hand, helping him up the stairs to the slide, etc. O was being “very sweet” with him. It was very nice to hear. Continue reading