Thanksgiving

The Thanksgiving holiday is well and truly over but we had a lovely long weekend. On Thursday we went over to Ray and Sandy's for dinner which was really nice. Mikayla and Oliver got to hang out again. The rest of the weekend was really quiet but nice family time (well, when Oliver wasn't crabby!!). We put up the Christmas tree on Saturday (thanks Nanna Pan!) and we're really pleased with it. Oliver was very helpful - he liked to take the baubles off the tree after we had put them on!! Thanks goodness we bought shatterproof ones, LOL but they do have a lot of glitter on them so he got covered in that!!

When Nanna Pan was here she bought Oliver a wooden Santa advent calendar so every day he had been getting a treat. Before now Oliver hasn't really had many sweets so we didn't know what to buy. We ended up getting M&Ms, chocolate mints and some fruit sweets (like jelly beans). On Monday I put 2 M&Ms in the Santa and in the afternoon got them for Oliver. He had never seen such a thing and handed them straight back to me!! So, I gave in and ate them *sigh* just to prove they were edible!! Then all was well. We have since tried the other sweets and he likes them all. Apparently Santa's ration of two a day is not enough so we do have a little performance afterwards :)

Last week Oliver had his 15 month check and ended up just getting a flu shot. We had to go back this week to get his other vaccinations as they couldn't do them all at the same time. So yesterday he ended up having 5 separate shots!! I was shocked. Some of them are normally combined according to the nurse but they didn't have any hence why he had so many. Anyway, he was great about it and not much crying at all. He was weighed and measured and now weighs 25lbs 11.5oz (50th-75th centile) and is 33.25ins long (95th centile!). The doc says he will be tall and skinny!!

Other than that, not much to report. We went on a little coffee playdate this morning and met some new mums and babies. Always nice to get out and see people. Catch the video of Oliver feeding himself yoghurt - a new thing :)

Oliver pretending to be a fencing star with a seive!

I remember this toy (one of Oliver's that stays at Grandpa and Grandma's)

Nice smile Oliver - thanks for that one!!


Spending time at the park on one of the warmer days (above freezing - celcius)


The Christmas tree in all its glory!