Flashlight

I for one love daylight savings only for the extra hour of sleep. After that I'm over it because it starts getting dark in the middle of the day. Today Oliver and I found the joy in the darkness.

Flashlight fun:

Sorry no ghost stories yet, but if we ever need "ghost spray" Oma Dee Dee will come to the rescue. (funny story, ask Jerimy sometime)

Ps. This flashlight is actually pretty heavy. I'm impressed he was able to lift it let alone carry it around.

A few observations

Environment plays a huge part of who you become, but your personality seems to take shape in the womb. Oliver's always been a morning person. He has a gentle spirit but is independent and stubborn. Oliver currently seems to be favoring his left hand. And he loves to talk. Yesterday and today Oliver woke up at 3am. Usually he'll eat and go right back to sleep.

Unfortunately for me, he had a lot to talk about and was up for the next two hours talking to himself in the dark. I'm no ones friend that early in the morning, and it seemed to me he didn't need my company. I tried to fall back to sleep myself but it's really hard when your darling child is practicing speeches that rival the length of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech. (I googled "famous long speeches")

Visiting Friends

Oliver and I went over to my friends house.

Her eldest set up a treat for Oliver: a line of trucks!

The fire truck sure was fun. Big kids have a lot of big toys, new to Oliver.
Never a boring moment with all the activity and energy.


Always a pleasure to play with friends.

Laundry Basket

I think not- it's an momentary Oliver containment system:

Election Day

The facts for Olivers future reference.

Today is November 4th, 2008

I saw some gas prices that were $1.99
The Weather:
The Events: I woke up, was out the door headed for work at 6:30am. Daddy stays home Tuesday mornings to play with you. I was home slightly before 1pm. We loaded up your stroller and walked over to the polling site, since it's only 7 blocks from our house. In ten minutes we were at the rec center and casting our votes. The polling location we were assigned to was practically empty at that time of the day. We proudly voted for the new president of the US and were back home to enjoy the rest of the day. It will be a historic day whichever way the votes decide and you were there to witness.

Silly willy Billy goat

Oliver and I have been super silly lately.

Last night after our good night story Oliver stayed up a little extra so we could laugh our heads off. Oliver found my ear amusing. What exactly was so funny about Marmee's ear? I have no clue, but laughing together with my son... It was priceless.

Today we were balancing a ring on our heads, I wasn't able to capture the explosive laughter... but you can see we were defiantly sharing lots of laughs and being silly.

Sunday, sunday

One of the things Oliver LOVES is reading books. He spends more time looking through his books than he does playing with toys. This afternoon Daddy was reading to Oliver and we realized its been a while since we've checked out books at the library.

So, after a brief noise making drum session we headed over to the BIG library downtown.

We grabbed a bunch of new books to read. Oliver got the most but Marmee and Daddy also picked up a few for ourselves. It was such a nice day and we had the stroller in the car... a prefect time for a walk. And what should we stumble across but a few Peanuts statues.

While walking the Candyland store called out to us... Daddy got a few Gum drops and Marmee got, what else, CHOCOLATE!

What a nice day!