Presents! Boxes! Wrapping Paper!

Santa made it to Brooklyn this year and left Ollie lots of goodies for his first Christmas.

He woke up and headed straight for the loot.

He seemed to like the presents wrapped in shiny paper the most.

And he sure had lots of fun eating...

er... opening the gifts.

He would have been satisfied with the wrapping paper...

and tissue paper...

and boxes...


But the gifts were nice too.

Happy Christmas everyone!!

Visiting the Neill's

Last week after we went to pose with Santa, we headed over to the Neill's place for some yummy waffles and lots of playing.

Papa got a little taste of what two would be like.

 

Then Clyde and Calvin reminded him how to play Connect Four.

Next was story time at Ushma's daycare center.

Then Ollie rode a green spotted llorse (that's a llama-horse if you didn't know).

But his favorite toy was a big silver balloon.

He loved it so much that Mama bought him his own balloon a few days later. Why are balloons so much fun?

Best Photo Shoot of 2010

These pictures are from a few weeks ago, but they're so cute that I had to share them.

Noisy Toys and Little Boys

Grampa and Grammy sent Ollie his first musical christmas toy. And he loves it. Mostly I think he loves torturing his parents by playing it over and over and over again... look at that mischievous little grin at the beginning of the video.

Fun with Photobooth

Photobooth on our laptop has been providing hours of entertainment for the Lil Man. It may even be more fun than playing in front of the mirror!

This video is so cute....like.

Bye Bye Army

On the day before his 9 month bday, Ollie decided he was going to hand in his uniform for a civilian crawl.

Santa!

We took Ollie for his first visit to Santa yesterday—the REAL Santa we were told. Ollie did really well and we got some good pictures. We aren't sure if that's because he liked Santa's bells and thought he was in music class, or if it's cause Santa looks sort of like his Poppy.

Ollie's definitely on Santa's Good List so I'm sure he'll be getting what he asked for... which I think was bread.

i'm so vain

i really think this blog is about me

but i deserve a kiss, i'm 9 months old today!

big news!

i'm finally eating! mama and papa just didn't realize that i hate those mushy purees they were trying to feed me. plus i didn't like them sticking that darn spoon in my mouth. i'm a big boy and i can feed myself. some of the things i've tried in the last few days are: bread, broccoli, apples, mandarin oranges, bread, grits, romanesco, cheese biscuits, bread, carrots, pierogies, fig newmans, bread, chicken, avocado, bread, turkey, kielbasa, bread, fish, hummus, pancakes, tortillas, bread, cheese, indian dosas, a lemon, and more bread. mostly i lick things many many times and then once i've determined that they're edible, i bite off pieces and start to chew. i'm a pretty good chewer. if i don't like something i vehemently throw it on the floor. as you can see from the list above, my favorite food is bread. mama decided she should puree up vegetables and spread them on bread and then i might eat more of them. it remains to be seen if she can fool me like that. here are some pictures and videos of all my food adventures.

look at this spread!

 

sometimes i'll eat some vegetables

but my favorite thing is the cheese biscuits my mama made

 look at all my teeth! good for chewing!

the aftermath


apples are pretty good too

bridget even gave me a whole apple for myself the other day

 and today i tried pierogies on my day out with papa

 

and here are a few videos for your chewing pleasure: