18 Months

Oliver is a year and a half old today. 

He's a tall boy. Running around pretty swiftly now. He speaks a lot - the cutest word he says is "avocado," which I will attribute to Oliver's staying a week with Grandma and her Paleo diet. 

Swimming is going after a two-month hiatus and Oliver is doing well. He finally has been given permission to come to class in clothes and shoes next week so that he can start practicing for his 5 minute float (the next big test). This I will give credit for to Nana and PopPop's new pool in Palm Springs and the 2 solid hours we spent practicing in it last weekend. He did great at his last two classes after that. There are seriously two-year-olds at swim classes without their parents in the water because they can swim. Could be us! 

Watching himself chew food in the camera

Oliver is into trains, airplanes, monkeys, cats, busses and pointing them out every time he sees one, fish, big trucks, singing Itsy Bitsy Spider...  We still do music class and are excited to start "Balls! Balls! Bonanza!" at the community center in a couple of weeks. If nothing else, I love the name. He needs to burn off his energy or he gets really annoying. And then he crashes hard for one or two naps a day. He's been sleeping a lot. 

I've started doing some Barre3 classes, which are make-you-sweat-and-shake hard and they have a small daycare area. Oliver survived 2 sessions of daycare successfully, but I've tried 2 more times and he cried so much I was pulled out of class. Oh well, I can still go when Mitchell watches Oliver, and I'm sure he'll grow out of getting so upset. 

Doc appt in a couple of weeks and we'll get the physical stats. 

The Stone

I am extremely proud and equally embarrassed by the fact that I just completed my first lesson of Rosetta Stone Spanish. It was kind of fun, and I think I may have learned a few things! I made it through part of lesson two before Oliver woke up. However, I have actually lost count of how many Christmases have passed since Mitchell gave me the software. I just pray that he unsubscribed from the frequent emails he received asking "how it was going?" with the program, as it sat in a box on my shelf. 

Will I open the program more frequently now that this fear of the unknown is gone? Who knows! But I'm excited. Hopefully I can learn enough to keep up with Oliver in school someday, through, say, first grade?