Oliver's Night Shirt

Grandma Cathy sent Oliver a night shirt with a big fire truck on it.  He is so excited to wear it.

When he is done eating at the table and wants to get down he stands up, lifts his shirt, shows us how big his belly is and makes his 'excited eyes.'  It usually wins us over.

Oliver likes to run around naked in the house sometimes and has  realized that peeing outside the back door onto the deck is faster than going all the way to the bathroom.  This particular time he was really excited about it and kept saying that he was going to drink more water so that he could pee more.

On our last IKEA trip he was so tired when we got there that we grabbed some pillows and make him a shopping cart bed.  Everybody there kept telling us what a great idea it was.  We felt a little bad stuffing the drooled on pillows into the bedding shelves before we left.

Oliver's New Shovel

Dorothy is planting now so when we went to Lowes we spotted a metal kids shovel for Oliver.  He loves helping Doro dig the big holes for the plants.

Sometimes the hole digging becomes flower-mud soup in the christmas tree stand.

Whenever he plays with his trucks in the dirt he has to take them to the truck wash, which he creates by hanging the hose off of the deck, and then driving through it.  In this picture it is dark outside and the trucks still need washing.

Sometimes I am mistaken and think that it is bedtime when in reality it is time to build an elaborate train track.

He loves to play in or with the water.  We put the a tiny nozzle for water balloons on the hose, which he realized can shoot far if he kinks it first, and then it progressed to the real fire nozzle and spraying everything in sight, including the house, open doors, open windows and us.