A year in the States!

Yes, as the title suggests it's a year to the day since Oliver and I arrived in Minneapolis (Jon was a few days ahead!). Hard to believe that much time has gone by. And hasn't our Oliver changed since then! I doubt he'd sleep nicely for most of an 8 hour flight between London and the US now for one thing :)

Last weekend was a complete nightmare as Oliver was having real problems teething. We pretty much suffered high pitched screaming for the best part of 3 days. Thankfully things are much improved now but I have no idea how many (if any) teeth have actually popped through. We can only hope that all 4 came through at once, eh??!!

Not much news to report this week really. We went on one playdate on Tuesday morning at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and came home to webcam with Morgan on his 8th birthday! Oliver has been playing a lot with his cars this week and is quite happy to spend his time pushing them around saying "vroom vroom". He also wore a pair of "Cars" socks for the first time this week and couldn't stop saying "car". He even gave the cars a kiss when I was trying to change his nappy :)

Today we went to a book fair at Grandma Sandy's work and got some new books for all of us for just $8! It was lots of fun. Dr Seuss' cat in the hat was there but he seemed to scare most of the children initially! I got to mow the lawn for the first time this year when Oliver had his nap and then it was off to the store to get more gardening goodies.

I got a video last night of Oliver being silly with daddy at bedtime. This happens most nights and is pretty funny to watch!

The mess created when Oliver had spaghetti and meatballs and he was left to feed himself!


Scoop giving high fives and sleeping in one of her favourite spots!


These are the first two photos Oliver took himself - of course bear blankie had to be the star of one!!

Kisses for beer (or the blonde girl on the label carrying at least 6 glasses of beer) - whatever, he is turning into a typical male :)