Well, it’s come to this. In order to be able to pick up and keep going with more recent blog posts, I need to do a quick post for the entire month of October.
October highlights included:
* Oliver’s 18 month wellness check. We lost the paper that had all the pertinent stats on it so all I can remember is that he was about average for height and weight and his head is still huge. The doctor was pleased with his verbal development. He spent the entire appointment sitting on the floor in front of the doctor and babbling in his own secret language.
* Weaning. I mentioned in an earlier post that I had gone two nights without nursing Oliver before bed. That weaning attempt worked and we have been completely weaned since then. I’m proud of us for breastfeeding for 18 months but I am sooooooooooooo glad to be done. And I’m so happy that the weaning process ended up being stress free for both of us.
- A visit from Great-Great in San Antonio. My grandmother came down to San Antonio in October and we all spent a nice long weekend together. We went to the zoo and downtown and took a barge ride on the San Antonio River. Oliver loved spending time with his Great Great and demanded that she sing him Itsy Bitsy Spider over and over again. We all obliged:
* And, finally, Halloween. Oliver was a garden gnome for Halloween. Unfortunately, Brian had book club that night so it was just me and the kiddo, but we had a blast handing out candy and doing a little trick or treating. Oliver was adorable. Every time kids would come up to get candy, he would put it in their bucket or bag. When they turned around to leave he would start out after them with candy in hand crying: “More! More’! When I took him around to a few of our neighbors’ houses to do some trick or treating, he would take candy out of his bucket and put it in their bowl instead of getting candy from them. What a giver!
