Oliver Goes Sledding

Apparently the cat's food wasn't ground fine enough so Oliver had to crush it in the garlic press.  This is how I found him.

Oliver Fixing his 'broke broke' excavator

Sometimes Oliver comes to visit me at work and we find little chocolates for him from somebody's candy jar.  He is holding a little peanut butter cup.

Oliver's snow rocket

We decided to go to a little village in the mountains so Oliver could see snow and go sledding.  We weren't sure how he was going to do, but we bundled him up in his little snow pants and he loved it.  All he wanted to do was go sledding and collect snow.

Oliver moved into a twin bed in the next room over which had purple walls.  We primed and painted it blue for him and then got little rocket and planet wall stickers for his 'rocket room.'  He directed where the stickers went and had a lot of fun watching us paint.

In the first video he was being silly at a restaurant.  There was a guy playing the accordion and Oliver ended up under the table dancing to the music.

In the second video we were eating breakfast at the hotel.  He went to all of the window sills collecting the christmas trees, and then hid behind the large tree with them.

Oliver's Big Yellow Excavator

He started doing this thing recently where he would do 'small eyes' and then 'big eyes'  It is so funny.

His interests this year are rockets, trains and excavators.  I found a styrofoam space shuttle at a hobby store and had to get it for him.  He loved it, landed it on the cat, and then proceeded to stab a screwdriver through the wing.  It lasted about an hour before the wing was broken and I was reinforcing it with packing tape.

Every time we go to the Wegmans replacement grocery store here Hoot Belly loves to look at the live crabs.  We decided to get some for Christmas Eve dinner this year and he was super excited.  He saved a small piece of cookie the whole way to the store to give to the crab.  He didn't want to eat them though.

I can't believe that he requests to watch Dorothy's 50's movies.  He requests Pillow Talk by name now.  That part he got from Dorothy.

We got him this little train table because he loves the one in Barns and Noble

Christmas for Hoot Belly was over when he opened the excavator he got.  His other few small presents went unopened because he was busy digging all day.  

Oliver and the Christmas Tree

I didn't have to work this Thanksgiving and Doro made us a great little Thanksgiving dinner.  Oliver had his own plate that he wasn't all that interested in.  Big surprise there.

One of our favorite games is building a 'big rocket' with his megablocks.  It is my job to come up with a stable base so that he can build the tallest rocket possible.  It doesn't last long before he decides it is time to knock it over and start again.

Doro had some other kids over to make and decorate christmas cookies.  Oliver got really into decorating them, and then really into eating them.  

Doro takes him to the library once a week for story time and to find new books.  Last time he toddled off and then came back with a space shuttle DVD.  He absolutely loves it.  When we ask him if he is going to be a scientist, he replays, ' no, a rocket man.'

Poor kitty.

Whenever we visit our favorite doughnut shop Oliver picks out his doughnut.  This time it was a gigantic ring that he kept rotating to get a good bite from.

We found a christmas tree farm to find and cut our own tree.  Oliver loved riding in the wagon they let us use, and then was super excited to help me cut the tree down.  He had to have his little hands on the saw.

As we were leaving the christmas tree farm Doro yelled at me to stop the car, then she opened the door and bolted outside.  I wasn't sure what was going on, but she came back super excited with this amazing mushroom.  We then made off with a christmas tree and a christmas mushroom.

He was super excited to help decorate the tree.  His ratio of successful bulbs hung to bulbs broken was probably in the range of 1:4, but he loved it.  

He also loves the daily chocolate he gets from opening the door on his advent calendar.