Oliver is a pure water baby. We probably spend 5 days a week in water of some sort. From our pool, to the kiddie pool, sprinklers, the wading pools, and lately we've been enjoying the aquatic center. He's fearless. He jumps into the water, will go down the slide (with hands up & saying yay while going down), tries to swim by laying face down in the water, and just simply loves being in the water. It's great because Denny & I have also loved water since we were little.
Oliver talks and talks.... I haven't written down all the words he can say (a lot of them he doesn't use regularly) but the ones that come to mind are: mom, dad, no, stop, go, outside, slide, oliber (just this weekend), up, off, light, bye, hi... he is always blabbering- and we're anxious to be able to understand all the things he is talking about!
Like I said earlier- he's silly. He does head stands, loves going head first off the couch (this is an actual game to him) onto his "cars" couch, will dance and sing all day long, and is just plain funny.
He's becoming a mama's boy- starting to cry when I leave him at Kristine's, or gets teary eyed when I leave the room, and loves sleeping with his mama and dad (and we love him sleeping with us).
Besides reading books, dancing, playing with his trucks and cars, his alphabet train, and being in water or outside- he also loves brushing his teeth and taking a bath. He'll go in the bathroom a few times a day and ask for his toothbrush. Too cute- and I hope it continues.
In addition to being silly- he's fearless and definitely an adventurer. He'll climb anything, including in & out of the bathtub. He'll climb any ladder and has recently mastered climbing up some slides. He'll stand on all the things he shouldn't and is learning how to break all the rules.
One of his favorite activities is painting. He paints at his table 2-3 times a day on a weekend. We decided to get him a magna doodle (Thanks for the suggestion Lucy) and no surprise, but he loves it. He is fascinated by the fact you can "erase" what you drew. I'm sure this will be a favorite for a long time.
I am beginning to understand what people mean by a picky eater. Over the last month or two he went from loving all food to only eating snack type foods. I am hopeful that my little food lover reappears soon!
It's been a busy summer. We're keeping busy and enjoying the weather.
Here are a couple pictures that Lucy took of Oliver. He was 16 months here- these pictures really do an amazing job of capturing his personality. Our little boy is approaching 18 months! I don't like that he's growing up so fast; yet, but we're truly enjoying the ride.
