Like brother like sister

Great Insight

The other day I was painting a picture for Claire's room using water color. Oliver was very interested and impressed with the picture. He looked it over and told me how much he liked the unicorn, which is actually the best part of the layout. Then he said, "Hey Mama, there is no white paint here," pointing to my tray of watercolors, "How you did make the unicorn white?"

"The paper is white, so I just painted purple all around it," I said. "Whoa! That's cool."

I thought it was a pretty great insight of his to notice that.

Santa

Yesterday we went to see Santa in downtown San Carlos. We got there right at noon when he opened and there was no line! Oliver walked right up to him and said, "Hello, I'm Oliver!" in typical Oliver fashion. Then he handed a note we wrote outlining his gift desires and one gift idea for Papa and Mama. We tried to get a good photo but Oliver didn't really want to sit on the stranger's lap or pose. Oliver declined a candy cane and we left. Later when we passed by again on our way to the car, Oliver shouted to him, "We are just going to walk away now!" indicating that he didn't want anymore Santa time. Santa laughed at that one.

Mr. Particular

Interesting facts about Oliver:
1. "Juice" to him is 1/2 water 1/2 apple juice (no other juice is potable) warmed for 20 seconds in the microwave. Oliver drinks Juice, lemonade, milk, water or root beer. Period.
2. Each day Oliver must bring a car with him to school, to keep in his backpack. Before he'll put it in the backpack he needs to show a teacher.
3. Oliver's classroom has three potties. He will only use the middle.
4. If we are reading a book about cars and there is a page of really interesting autos, Oliver will stop and say, "Wait a minute. I need to get serious about this."

Leaf Jumpin'

3 year old boy

I think October might be my favorite month - fall's finally here, MLB playoffs and the World Series, Halloween - we had fun this October. Oli decided he wanted to be skeleton for Halloween, so despite our far-flung wishes of him finally deciding to adorn the darling panda bear costume Amanda so lovingly sewed for him last year....we went with the skeleton. I bought a 3T/4T costume online, and it was waaaaayyy too tight, so we got some black clothes that fit him, and Amanda sewed the bones on. His buddy Alex was a skeleton too, so they made for a cute couple.


I just uploaded photos from our camera for the first time in months, so I'm including a bunch from the late summer months and early fall this time.

Amanda and Joanne at Oli's birthday party


SHARK CAKE!!!

Ridiculous birthday fun

He loves going to the doctor. He often begs us to please go to the doctor.

First day of his new class at Bing

Goblin Walk with Mama

Oliver the Skeleton

Carving pumpkins with Grandma and Grandpa Meek

October

Oliver at the bounce house pumpkin patch

Oliver's first woodworking project at school. He loves trains and trucks with trailers, so I could see him getting interested in connecting the two pieces of wood together with nails.




Oliver at the bounce house pumpkin patch, going down the BIG shark slide.



Oliver trying out his new roller-skates. He says that he likes them, and then explains that he wants them to have a button so that they can go electronically. Doesn't want me to hold his hand (as usual).