October

Oliver is getting bigger and is beginning to reach for things. He is not quite able to straighten his arms and get them up there but he is getting much better. His O/T has been working with his gross motor skills since we no longer need to focus on his latching on. She is not a physical therapist (P/T) but has done that before. Our P/T doesn't begin until the beginning of November and she thinks that's too long to wait to get his muscles to function properly.

His big brother on the other hand has no problems with grabbing his toys . As he demonstrates here, he is never without some small object to take with him out the door to play with. Ian always has some little item or items in his pockets. I have a basket on top of the dryer that I empty his pockets into before I wash them. The basket is over flowing with a myriad of stuff from legos to rocks. Doesn't he look handsome though? He got so many compliments on his tie that he wore it to the hospital to meet his new cousin, Logan. Although he wore it with a t-shirt and holey jeans, he thought he should make a good impression for their first meeting. I will get a picture to show you soon.


Here we are doing some of Ollie's daily exercises while watching his projector (it cycles through smiling stars, moons, sheep, and a cow). We are supposed to stretch his arms and legs each time we change his diaper. He does love watching the pictures go around. He has just started talking to them, too.





Ian's two front teeth have been loose since the end of May. They finally came out a couple days apart right before Halloween. Ian had been hoping that the tooth fairy would bring him a cheese knife like his best friend Jake got (leave it up to our son to be unconventional influenced by his friend). We asked him what he would do with a cheese knife. He thought long about it and decided he would rather have a pocket knife to be able to take camping. I told him to write a note and ask the tooth fairy if she would please leave him a pocket knife for his two front teeth. She did of course. Who could say no to this face?
Halloween was fun this year. We trick or treated in downtown Burien the Saturday before. We go every year with my niece Amanda and nephew Colin. She is almost 8 and Colin just turned 6. We also go over to my mom's and trick or treat in the neighborhood I grew up in, usually. This year was different. My parents had a house fire in the end of August and they are in a rental house while theirs is being rebuilt. So for the first time since living in this house, we went in our neighborhood. It was really nice. There are a lot of kids around here.

If you can't tell what Ian is, that's okay a lot of people couldn't. He is a flying squirrel. He came up with it on his own. I then decided Ollie needed to be his acorn. I made both of their costumes using things I got at the thirft store, except the fur and hat (although I did make the hat too!). My squirrel couldn't actually eat the acorn because of his missing teeth. So he sang all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth all that week, just like Alvin the Chipmunk.