Puzzling

Today we had a fun Friday with our daycare friends.  Mommy planned to have a puzzle day for Oliver.  We did a few puzzles together and he worked on one with Sydney when she came by for a bit.  Oliver is getting really good at puzzles!  Mommy used to do puzzles a lot with Grammie.  Mommy thinks we should get another one started at Grammie's house!

We had a fun evening together after Oliver's routine.  We went for a little drive to Grand and hung out at the candy store for a little bit.  Mommy and Oliver know how to have fun together!

Happy Friday!

Figuring out his puzzle.

Woohoo!!!

Our track puzzle.  (Its just like a circle story!)

Just have to include this, Oliver wanted

to cut cheese.  Mommy let him cut the cheese

on her cheese plate she won at a race.  

Nobody ate the cheese when he was done with it.

Fun, fun, fun!

Licorice and alphabet puzzle.  Bliss!

Making a mess of puzzles.

Yippee, the candy store!

Mommy with her pirate.

Neat Wax Mustache 

Yums.

Yums again.  Candy and Oliver.

Cheese Festival on Grand.  (Mommy 

wants to go to this.)

Grape Slide

Oliver had an awesome day at preschool!  On the way home we stopped by the Grape Slide!  Fun, fun, fun!  We had a great rest of the evening together.

Happy Thursday!

Hanging on the grape stems.

Stems, Eucalyptus tree and bench.  (Mommy

would like to sit on that bench for a while.)

The Slide.

We went down it, it was super fast! 

Donut Wednesday

Donut Wednesday!  Yum, yum, and yum!

Happy Wednesday!

Looking for his donut.

Halloween Donuts!

Showing the man which donut he wanted.

Oliver's Donut.

Neato!

Yummy!

Mommy's donut hole.  

Mommy's coffee.  It was definitely decaf! (But had a splash

of pumpkin spice in it!  Good combination.)

Oliver asked Mommy to take a picture

of the bus.

Eating Mommy's donut hole.

Yums.

Best picture of us ever.  Not.

Wheatgrass Wednesday.

The other view.  (Yummy.)

Sweetness

Oliver had an awesome day at preschool.  When Mommy asked what his favorite part of the day was he said playing outside.  When Mommy asked what his favorite part of being inside was, he said nap time. Hmmm, thats funny to Mommy.  Mommy wishes she could get Oliver to nap like she can get her daycare babies to nap!  

Mari came over and we bought a chocolate bar from her.

She got to meet Chloe!

Oliver gave Mommy this sweet bracelet today.

Mommy has a lot of them now!  She likes wearing them.

(Mommy isn't a super huge fan of jewelry, but she does

like bracelets.  She thought you might like to know!)

Happy Happy Tuesday!

Resting

Oliver resting

We had a busy day.  Oliver got to spend the morning with Grammie while Mommy worked.  (Mommy is trying to figure out balancing babies and Oliver!  Along with the many other things that come along with running a daycare...)  Oliver was excited to come home and immediately started to get into everything!  We had a nice evening together!

Happy Monday!

Lots of Pictures!

Today we had a kind of busy fun day.  Mommy felt like taking a bunch of pictures.  So here is our day!

Oliver wanted to bring his medal box to Grammie's

this morning.  Cuteness!

After Grammie's we went to the park

and had a little picnic!

Oliver said the stones were beautiful.

He asked a ton of questions about the Stagecoach

Stop.  He likes learning about history.  (So does

Mommy.)  

On the playground.

Ready to slide down to Mommy.

Getting the swing ready.

For Mommy!  

He wanted to hike the little river trail.

It is actually sculpture art!

Exploring.

Here Oliver was telling Mommy about the "History"

of the art trail.  Cute!

The trail went into the "woods."

We were kind of scared to go in...Oliver thought

there might be dinosaurs, so he thought it would be 

a good idea to whisper...

Here is our whispering hike in...(Mommy thought

it would be fun if we saw a grizzly bear.) Oliver

has so many questions about bears, he thinks too

much sometimes!

Cage at the end.

Oliver thought it was pretty cool.

Pretty.

Pretty again!

After the park we went to the library:

The art gallery was open so we went in to check out

the exhibit.  

Mommy used to go to the gallery all the time.

She is glad she gets to share it with Oliver now.

The exhibit was a bunch of really neat puppets.  Many

of them were very old.

Some were hanging from the ceiling!

Beautiful!

Who is this?

Puppets from Greece.

Jimmy Carter, Margaret Thatcher, and Mommy can't 

remember who the other man is...

The man with green hair.

Mommy had to teach Oliver to keep

his hands to himself in the gallery.

It is very tempting to touch all the puppets.

Old Man of the Woods. 

It has interesting history behind it.  Mommy needs

to go back and read all the information at the gallery.

It was hard with little man.  (She will have to go back,

soon.  Hopefully.)

Snow Boy and Girl.

Their story.  (Sweet story.)

More interesting history.

We went in to the library.  We checked out

a lot of books about Rabbits!

Mommy has had a craving to read a "Dear America"

series book for a while now.  They are one of Mommy's

favorite genres.  Historical fiction, written in the

style of a journal!  Fun!

Mommy chose this one and one about

the Lewis and Clark Expedition.  Now,

she hopes she can find some time to read them!

We went over to the winery today to

talk to our neighbor.  Oliver was excited

to go over there.

Pretty.

Tasting sign.

Oliver loved all the old stuff there!

But he was scared in the tasting room and

wouldn't talk to Vera our neighbor.

We will try again another day.  She is

really nice.  

More old stuff.

Explorer!

Happiness!

He loved all the empty bottles.

We had a long day full of fun things, chores, and a little rest.  (Mommy is looking for the moon now. She sees lots of beautiful stars!)  Good-nighty night!