This winter just seems to drag on and on! We have found a few ways to be the nasty weather.
1. Get bundled up and get outside when the rain stops!
2. Snuggles with Mommy and Daddy!
3. Enroll in swim lessons!
4. Break the rules, and practice your tricycle indoors.
I am SO THANKFUL for our new place. We have much more room to roam and play.
Whew, this post is way overdue! Do you remember Christmas? You know, that holiday that happened more than a month ago? I finally uploaded my photos last night and got to relive it all over again.
We woke up Christmas morning, and after reminding Oliver who we left milk and cookies out for (and carrots, too), he shouted, "Santa!" and immediately ran out to the front room to find all the presents under the tree. He outstretched his arms and said, "Presents!!" It was very cute and adorable. We spent the morning unwrapping presents and playing with toys.
After a lazy morning of watching "Finding Nemo," and playing with toys, we went over to my brother's house for round two.
Dad and Jana were there and got Oliver and Chelsea (as well as Tim and I) some nice stuff. :-)
With the new house, we actually had room to have everyone over, so Christmas dinner was at our place. My mom came over and got dinner started while we were visiting here. We came back home and put Oliver down for a nap, while I helped my mom make dinner.
Christmas has never been so LOUD! The rest of the family came over, and the night was spent listening to Oliver and Chelsea zoom around a big semi truck and a garbage truck through the house. After a while we had to stop due to the headaches they were causing. :-)
It was another busy Christmas, but definitely one of the best Christmases yet. I can't believe it's been three Christmases already with Oliver. To recap, here was last year and the year before.
I can't wait for next year!
I was home today with Oliver - he was too sick for daycare. During one of his moments of energy, I found him reading Green Eggs and Ham to himself. Love love love.
Some other cute and silly things that have been happening:
Oliver enjoys running "The Loop," which consists of running through the kitchen and the living room. Friday night he did it for a good 30-40 minutes. He was pretty winded at the end and was so funny about slugging back some water afterwards like he ran a marathon or something.
We are also lightly doing some potty training - it is starting to ramp up after he used the potty all by himself the other day. He said he needed to pee pee and went into the bathroom and the whole bit. It hasn't happened since but it does give me faith that it is going to happen at some point! :-) He will also just want to sit on the potty if that means he doesn't go to bed... he thinks he has me fooled.
When we are ready (both Oliver and Tim and I), I'm going to try doing a verision of this which is pretty darn scary. It has been pinned quite a bit on pinterest with a lot of success stories. But only, if we are ready. :-)
Last weekend, we celebrated my niece's birthday with dinner at Tutta Bella. We had not been there before, but when we walked in, it was a sea of families with toddlers and young children, so I knew it would be a-okay for us. Chelsea got some nice toys that of course Oliver had to test out. :-)
The next day, we were invited to my mom's friend Susan's house for a little get together to watch the Christmas ships sail by. I wasn't able to get a good picture of them, but trust that it was much cooler in person.
She had also made some delicious chili and crab (Tim said the crab was good - since I don't like seafood, I'll take his word for it), with good company and carolers singing from the boat, it was a pretty awesome evening.
This past Tuesday, Tim, O and I went to go get a tree. We had planned on heading to a tree farm this year, but decided against it the day of since we had a lot of things to do that day. We went to Country Farms which is a fruit stand on 99 which sells trees during December. They had a pretty good selection for a good price so I think it worked out well.
We got back home and started to decorate. Oliver LOVED helping - especially the lights and beads. Here he was saying, "Here, Mom!" He has started calling me Mom and Tim Dad instead of Mommy and Daddy sometimes. I have no idea where he picked this up but it's just another sign he isn't a baby anymore.
I've got the stockings all hung up nicely now and the ornaments have been rearranged a few times (glass and delicate ones now out of Oliver's reach). Besides wrapping presents we can now say we are ready for the holidays!
We went and visited the big guy this past Tuesday. I know it wasn't even December yet, but Oliver just got his haircut and there was NO LINE to see him. Since there wasn't a wait, Santa and his helper were more patient with making sure we had a good photo before we left. Oliver didn't want to get down. Santa asked him what he wanted for Christmas. Oliver said, "Um... presents!"
This years photo. He smiled (yeay!) but I didn't notice that his socks didn't match until afterwards! Oh well.
And to compare, last years, and the year before that:
Can't believe this is Oliver's third Christmas! Where has the time gone?
