What’s going on the world of Ollie?
Ollie’s goto vegetable is bell peppers, raw bell peppers. This is the only vegetable that he will consistently eat, except for romaine lettuce, without any dressing. He’ll do a burger (preferably without the bun) and he’s gotten into hotdogs. Ollie likes them with ketchup and that’s fine by me. I like my Chicago dog with ketchup and I think the anti-ketchup on hot dog sentiment in Chicago is silly. If people were as forceful about their opinions about hot dog condiments as they were about social justice . . .
Ollie is also a fan of breakfast sausage (he prefer the patty form) and frozen chocolate waffles. He enjoys “peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with out the peanut butter.” Like most kids, he does like his pizza, chocolate, and ice cream.
Dinosaurs have consistently held his interest throughout the summer and into this fall. He has little dinosaur toys that he plays with. Sometimes he acts out parts of Land Before Time (which was REALLY into a couple weeks ago). Other times he arranges them on the floor and tries to remember their names. This has bled into his book interests. How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? By Jane Yolen & Mark Teague is part of a series of books that teaches kids how to behave in certain situations., Ollie is mostly interested in the types of dinosaurs, most of which I’ve never heard of), that are featured in this book.
Transformers Rescue Bots continue to fascinate Ollie. He will play these figures, setting them up, arranging them, and playing out plots for long stretches of time, sometimes almost forty-five minutes. He takes one to sleep every night and we wake up to the sound of him transforming these toys from car to robot mode in the morning.
School is going well. He’s got back into the grove of things without a lot of drama. He’s in the same classroom with the same teacher and many of he same classmates which helps. We are really happy with the work he is doing in school. The things he learns from school delight me. Like when recently he shared “I’m A Little Teapot,” complete with hand motions, which he learned at school.
Ollie is getting really good at giving bonus kisses, and his hugging skills continue to develop at an adorable pace. He'll cuddle and give kisses to his little brother in utero, hugging and kissing Diana's abdomen. Ollie's current name suggestion for his unborn brother is Sharptooth-Lava-Monster.
On weekend mornings, he crawls into bed with me and wants to start the morning cuddling with me and reading a book. This annoyed me over the summer, but now that I’m back at work, this little ritual that now only happens on the weekends. Something, I once disliked has become the highlight of my week.
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