2 by 2

A simple night time reading turned rap session with Charlotte and Kelly.

Gardening

We've started a garden this year in our backyard. Anthony built 3 beds that we plan to fill with yummy vegetables for us to eat this summer. Oliver loves to eat fruit, but like most kids has a brick wall resistance to vegetables. He will try them if we beg. Here is how it usually goes down; he takes a bite, makes a face and spits it out. At least he tries them, right? My hope is that if he is involved with planting, watering and harvesting the vegetables he'll take some ownership and want to eat them. I'm sure I'm being overzealous and naive about how a 2 year old thinks, but I'm going to try anyway. That is what I'm asking him to do. Try.

Our friends Kelly and Stefan gave us some lettuce starts from their garden in Portland. Oliver loved getting his hands dirty and digging holes for the lettuce. Hopefully the plants will stay in the dirt long enough to produce something. We have plans to do some more planting this weekend.

Spring has sprung

No, we did not get any pets. These animals belong to our friends in Spokane, Tim and Inga. We just spent the weekend up there and Oliver played in their yard the entire time with the dog and cat. I am not a pet person, and that is putting nicely. But it is two against one in our house and I have a feeling that I'm going to lose this battle one day. Oliver had way too much fun to deny him this pleasure. Plus Anthony is tough to argue with since starting this new career.He even likes the parts that animals shed.

Baby Rex Note

A truck full of dirt makes for a very happy and jumpy little boy.

Oliver and his buddy Matt hamming it up at a recent BBQ. Aren't they just adorable together?

One has to have the nails done before summer arrives. And thanks to Molly, Oliver is set. One foot is blue and the the other is green. He chose the colors, not us.

Big boy bed

We recently converted Oliver's crib to a toddler bed. Its pretty darn cute to see him crawl in and out of it. He still falls out in his sleep at least once a night, but he doesn't have far to fall. He'll learn not to do that soon right? Simply telling the squirm worm not to squirm hasn't worked so far.