Bye-Bye Bush

As I said before, you really weren’t feeling well the night of our party. We had a life-size cutout of Barack Obama for pictures, but you honestly didn’t like Barack AT ALL. When we brought him into the family room before the party, you wouldn’t even look at him.

Of course, your reaction was nothing like Igloo’s. Now, we know and understand Igloo. His neorosis, his craziness and well, his reactions. When Barack arrived in the mail, we knew better than to just stand him in the kitchen. No, Barack stood facing the wall until the following day. When I could videotape his reaction:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDAxyFy8_yI

Barack still stands facing the wall in the living room. Now that you’re feeling better, I may try to get a photo op in this weekend. When Igloo is outside. I’m afraid any more of this won’t be good for his heart. Hmmm….

A Really Bad Something…

When you went to the doctor’s office, you had a little bit of a cold, but nothing too bad. But, the next day, you started running a fever. We weren’t sure if it was the vaccinations, the cold or what. Your fever spiked on Friday – to the point that we almost had to take you to the emergency room. You temperature had risen to 103.8, but your eyes didn’t roll back in your head this time (whew). That Saturday night was our Bye-Bye Bush party and you just weren’t yourself. You just wanted to be held, watch movies and eat just about nothing. Pretty much this:

After your fever went up again on Sunday night, we knew it definitely wasn’t the vaccinations, you had a bug of something. On Tuesday we also noticed that you had three molars break through all at the same time. So, pretty much you had teeth pain, cold pain, fever pain – just a Perfect Storm of Ick.

It took a good week before you were back to your old self again. It’s hard to remember after a week that your whining is just because you feel bad… at one point, your daddy just turned to you and said “The liquor store called and they want their whine back!” That first morning when you woke up and started giggling and playing in the bathroom was heaven! Welcome back, kiddo.

Big Boy Check Up

You had your 18  month check-up on the 14th of this month. Of course, they told us what we already knew… you’re growing up to be a big boy. You are right on the mark for all your fine and gross motor skills, you have a good vocabulary.You are now 32″ tall and are staying steady at 21.5 pounds. So, you’re now in the 40th percentile for height and 5th for weight. The doc wasn’t at all worried that you hadn’t gained any weight, since you were now walking, running and climbing. The chairs. You’re climbing all the chairs in the house:

Look at you. Next your going to be demanding all your meals delivered to your favorite chair. A cold drink after work. Where does it end?

Christmas, A follow-up

We got some wonderful photos from Christmas that we finally uploaded to the computer, organized, blah blah blah:

Again, we had a great time everyone. Thank you all!

The Running List

We realized you actually have quite a long list of words.  It seems daily there is a conversation between Alyssa and I or Daddy and I regarding a new word you’ve picked up. Here’s what we have so far, in no particular order:

Dada Daddy cat hot hat pear apple elephant giraffe Flop (the little dog you sleep with) dot All Clean All Done ta-da nose eye ear outside bubbles owl towel

shoe airplane car light tractor dog bear heart kite spoon raccoon pine cone duck cheese cracker cherry ice puff hi color spoon

I will include with this list a disclaimer that some of these words can only be understood by those that are around you daily. Like most children, your words lack enunciation and some of these we only recognize because you say the same word each time, or point to a particular object and say the word. By no means should anyone reading this expect that you’ll answer the phone any time soon.

Little Piggies

Lately, I’ve been playing the game “This Little Piggy Goes to the Market” with you. We haven’t played this for a very long time and you just love it now when we do. You giggle when the piggy comes ‘home’ to your nose and shove your foot at me to do it again.

You now do your version of the piggy game. You grab your big toe and then reach up and shove your finger up your nose. In your version, there’s a market, but there’s no roast beef. Nope, your little piggies are an efficient bunch. They go to the market and then they march straight on home.

Bright Eyes

We finally decided to take you to the eye doctor on Friday. Your right eye has had us concerned because at times it would just take on a mind of its own. It would happen often when you were in your highchair for a meal – and especially if you were tired.

The doctor wasn’t concerned, although she did say you were a little bit more farsighted in your left eye, which would make your right eye that much more tired. We’ll have it checked out again in one year and do some eye excercises with you during the day to help your muscles in the right eye develop more.

Oh, yippee! Another opportunity to use our Jane Fonda Jazzercise counting: “1 and 2 and 3 and 4, c’mon eyes, just a few more!”

… and a Happy New Year!

We had a wonderful Christmas, with pictures to come. (This is an official request to everyone that was here to send us your favorite pictures taken from your cameras).

The holiday was filled with lots of family, fun and presents!!! This year you were mostly shell-shocked by all the people and concerned that one of them would touch you. All in all, you did really well and I think everyone enjoyed watching you play with your new toys.

It’s time for New Year’s resolutions – and I’d love to say that I resolve to update the blog daily… BUT, that’s already been done. I’ll be honest and say that the lack of blog postings is directly related to my new Facebook account. For those of you on Facebook, I’m sure you’ll relate to the immediate addiction that takes place when you start a new account. For those of you not yet on Facebook, well, you’ve been forewarned. But, like a new boyfriend, the newness has warn off and I believe I may actually be able to keep up the blog AND my Facebook entries on a regular basis. If not, I’m sure there’s some sort of support group to join (or start up) for social networking issues.

Thanks to everyone who made the long trip to come and visit the Olivet household for Christmas this year. We appreciate all your wonderful gifts, your time away from home and the love you gave us.