We had an awesome weekend. We went to Lydia’s birthday party yesterday afternoon. It was such a blast watching all the kiddos play. There were three boys and three girls all under the age of three and all of them were so happy. Not a meltdown among them. Oliver was all over the place. He kept pushing Lydia around in her car.
The food was awesome. Laurie and Robin made a ton of food and about a billion cupcakes. Everything was delicious.
Today, we went over to Lindsey’s house for brunch. I was a little unsure about how Oliver would do at a house that wasn’t really set up for an eleven month old but he did great! Of course, he rearranged all of Lindsey’s furniture but I think the place looked better when he was done (only kidding, Lindsey). He sat in my lap while I ate brunch and ate some cheese and had a few bites of the yummy strata that Lindsey and her friend, Lindsay, made. He also (and this a big deal for me) had a few sips of cow’s milk for the first time with breakfast. We’re not going to replace any breast milk with cow’s milk any time soon but I wanted to make sure he wasn’t going to have any reactions to cow’s milk and that he could get used to the taste. It’s a tiny step towards complete weaning.
He also decided to show off at Lindsey’s house and stood up by himself for a good ten seconds. That’s a personal record. On Saturday at Laurie and Robin’s I noticed that he was standing up by their coffee table (who knew coffee tables were so vital to development) and was playing with two toys - one in each hand - so it seemed like he was standing up on his own. But today, he stood in the middle of Lindsey’s kitchen with no furniture near by!
In other development news, he’s consistently saying his “dog” sound (it sounds like “Da!”) when he sees dogs. When we are at the park and a dog runs by, he points and says “Da!.” When Coltrane and Miles come in he says “Da!.” And, the other day we were walking down the aisles of Target and he got really excited, pointed and shouted, “Da!.” I said, “No, Oliver there’s no dog” but he kept saying it, so I followed his finger and, sure enough, there was a giant photo of a dog on the wall above the shelves. I’m ready to call it his first word but Brian is still hesitant (probably because he says “Da!” for a lot of things)... Also, just in the past few weeks he has started showing a ton of interest in his books. He will sit and look at the pictures and has even managed to sit still for story time some nights (we’ve been reading at him every night forever but now I feel like we’re really reading to him).
Here are the pictures from this week:
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