Last week, Oliver started preschool.


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Three seemingly unrelated events:

1. The other day, Claire threw on a hula skirt over her clothes, came into the living room, and started dancing in front of Oliver. He stared at her slack-faced, holding the Corduroy book in his hand, and I really couldn't tell what he was thinking - it seemed like it could've gone either way. When Claire finished, ( Read more... )

Oliver is the younger sibling, and so his older sister has always been in his life. We can ask Claire, do you remember what life was like before Oliver? (She will mostly likely say "No!") But obviously, she got a lot of time with us all to herself.

So I think Oliver, despite asking daily, "Where Claire? Where sis-sis?" thoroughly enjoyed this ( Read more... )

Today, Oliver turned two. Holy Moses. Someone please tell me how that happened? He was just born a few months ago...

Last night he decided to stay up late and bring in his birthday. Actually, he woke up several times in the middle of the night to bring in his birthday. I think he likes to celebrate his birthday. I'm sure he gets that from me.

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I (finally) watched the penultimate episode of The Walking Dead this weekend. And all of a sudden, it was like - wait. Is that the Hatch? And is that Desmond in the Swan Station? Except...neither of these things in The Walking Dead are as cool as Desmond or the Hatch. I still need to watch the last episode of the season, but that seriously bummed ( Read more... )

We stayed up way later than we meant to trick or treating and waiting for the Great Pumpkin Sunday night. It was really the first time Oliver had been able to go Trick or Treating, and although it took him a couple of stops to figure out what was going on, once he did figure it out, he pushed past everyone else, ran to the door of the next house, ( Read more... )

Today is Emma's birthday, and thus we enter the six months of the year when she stops referring to me as an old man. (In September, I miraculously become ancient for six months. It's a strange cycle.)

To celebrate, the family (including her parents) are going to take her up to the mountains where there are reports of snow and abominable snowmen.  ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who posted yesterday!

Oliver had a good night and is continuing to do really well. This week at Claire's preschool, the letter for things to bring at sharing time is "O" and since he's doing so good, Claire has decided to share Oliver. Good times!

Usually when people complain about weather here, I scoff and chuckle, but the weather ( Read more... )

Some of you know that Oliver was scheduled to get tubes in his ears today...this is just a little note to let everyone know the procedure at CHOC went fine, we're back home, and he's Ahng Shooing away (which, translated from Claire, means snoring). I am honestly a little bit amazed by how quickly and smoothly everything went ( Read more... )