Getting ready for christmas

Shoveling the sidewalk so Santa can find our door.

Gotta have a snowman!

Cookies for Santa!

New and old friends

We went to Portland recently to meet a new friend and to see some old friends. Our new friend is Charlotte Gayle Orehovec, daughter of Kelly and Stefan. She is only 6 weeks old and so precious. Such a good baby. Oliver was intrigued from a distance most of the weekend. But did show some interest when she was in this swing and he wanted to give her a stuffed animal. And he tried to help Kelly with Charlotte a couple of times. They are going to be friends for a long, long time. I can see him as an older brother already. He has a nurturing side deep down beneath the wild monster that usually roams our halls.

This is his old friend Ruby. They've known each other since Oliver was a month old. They're buds and play really well together. This day she brought doughnuts for us to eat at the park. Oliver thought that was pretty cool.

There's a baby in our bellies

The big news in the Ochs household is that we're going to have another baby in June. We're all pretty excited. We were almost sure that Oliver was going be an only child and then...well, things happen. So Oliver is going to be an older brother after all. I think he's going to be a very good one too. We're both excited to watch him grow into this role.

When I'm telling Oliver about the baby growing inside of me and showing him how my belly is getting bigger, he always shows me his belly that has a baby in it too. This is the typical pose. It's way too painful and frustrating to argue with a 3 year old. So we'll see what happens in 9 months when I win this race.