Terrible Two's at 16 months???

Oliver is a lot like his parents, very opinionated and stubborn.  It will pay off later in life to be a strong character but not when he is 16 months old!!!! I mean come on... give me a break!!!!

My sweet innocent child can go from cute to throwing a tantrum in five seconds....  SCARY!!!!

I am blaming it on his molars coming in or maybe it is just my cute little son being a little bit too much like his parents... very opinionated and stubborn....  I am already fearing it when he is two or dare I say teenage days????

he is gone

Since Oliver is born time has really been flying like crazy - now I am putting you to the test TIME!  Let's see if it will seem like forever before Patrick gets back home OR will it go by super fast???

Let's just say - the countdown to his return has begun!!!!

Patrick - I just want you to know that although you have only been gone a few hours (almost 5) that you are already MISSED and you are loved and we are proud of you!!!
Not everyone can/will do what you are doing....  some must, but only a few choose....

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two weeks

In two weeks Patrick is leaving for 6 months for work.  I have been with him for over 8 years and while he was active duty military he never got to deploy for such a long time and I know in comparison to other spouses who have been gone multiple times for a year or longer it is not comparable, but the longest Patrick ever deployed was for 3 months prior to meeting me.

I will miss seeing him everyday
I will miss seeing him interact with our son
I will miss his kisses
I will miss his hugs
I will miss his text messages
I will miss his random phone calls
I will miss his dinners

but mostly I will miss him...

Six months will fly by and I will try to keep myself busy... hopefully we will get to talk over skype frequently and I hope we will be able to email daily...

Trick or Treat Oliver Style

A few years ago our friends Aaron and Miranda's son Will was dressed up as a gnome for Halloween and we saw it and knew right away we had to use that outfit whenever we were going to have kids.  So September rolled around and I asked her where she got it from and found it on Amazon.

We did a little photo shoot Saturday before Halloween and let's say I am glad, because someone (not trying to mention any names) had an incident at the playground last Sunday and scraped up his nose pretty bad :(  Everyone thought it was part of the costume so I guess it worked out... 

Here is my gnome:

My little Gnome

 At first he was enjoying wearing his outfit but he lost interested very fast....

this sucks! 

Halloween Night - getting ready for the big show!!! 

there is always time to annoy Frankee

gnome and witch 

grown-ups treats! 

 Oliver's bed time is usually around 7pm so we were out and about at 6:30 and lasted for one hour.  At first he enjoyed walking by himself and he LOVED walked up to every single house (something that he usually isn't allowed) and he did have Jayden and Zoey to show him how it is done.  But I am already looking forward to next year when he'll be able to not only walk up the steps but also down...  Halfway through our trick-or-treat I had to start carrying him.  Poor little guy was getting tired.
I realized it was time to go home when his diaper gave up and leaked onto me :( I guess I didn't get a treat, just a trick ;)

first house! 

Disclaimer to the outfit - it runs VERY small - we squeezed our almost 15month child in a size 2T and the red slippers are made out of felt and are very slippery when wearing on non-carpeted flooring.  20 min before bed he slipped and hit his forehead :(  Miranda placed duct tape on the bottom for some traction.

from Pumpkins to Halloween

We took Oliver to pick out his pumpkin and he had a blast and let's say we kind of snuck in by accident...

getting ready for the pig race

we had great seats 

my boys (someone is sad that the pig race is over) 

those are too big for me... 

let's see if there is something in my size

here we go Daddy! Look what I found

ok if it doesn't burst open, we are buying this one! 

it passed the test

let's go! 

playing in the corn box

and having fun

it was a big bouncy ball and it was FUN! 

Mommy loves her little boy!!! 

14 months

where has the time gone??? just the other day I wrote about Oliver's first birthday and now two months simply just flew by...

Oliver started pointing at everything recently and loves to say "Ai" and wave to "Hi" and "Bye"  to whomever waves at him.  It is rather cute to hear him and see him in action.  His walking has been perfected into non-stop running, with the occasional face-meets-floor accident. His face is still recovering from a recent accident two weeks ago.

Baptized and showing off my bling
and recovering from my fall

silly boy

The outdoors is his new passion - just walking up and down the street in our neighborhood while kicking a soccer ball or carrying a rock is highly enjoyable these days.

Oliver LOVES balloons and bubbles - the library story time we visit always finishes with bubbles and I am not proud to say, but my child is the bully of story time and shoved a kid out of the way last week just to get to his bubbles...  (not proud of that)

don't get between me and my balloon lady! 

On October 2nd we finally baptized Oliver at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Ellicott City.  We were very happy Sam finally lives in the area so it made it a bit easier to co-ordinate the Godparents.  Unfortunately couldn't Oliver's Godmother Lora make it so we used Sam's girlfriend as her proxy.  Oliver was mesmerized by Father Matt  and behaved the entire time, he almost burned himself on the baptismal candle, but lucky us no-one really saw it and well let's say his Godfather learned that Oliver can reach PRETTY far....

My Godfather and Jenn 

My favorite part of the day is when I come home from work and he comes running towards me and just smiles and giggles out of happiness that I am back home :)