Turtle Talk and the Ball Pit

This morning we were looking through Oliver's adorable artwork from "school" and praising Oliver for his artistic abilities.  I pulled out a turtle that he had glued paper to and said Oliver look at the turtle and then plain as day he said turtle!!!  Jacob and I looked at each other with our jaws on the floor...Did he just say turtle?!?!?  We looked back at him and I said can you say turtle and he said it again.  We couldn't believe it.  It was the cutest thing.

I talked to Jacob after he dropped him off at "school" and he said that he asked Ms. Gladys if they had been teaching him to say turtle.  She said that she knew he could say turtle and that he talks all the time; which he does at home too.  She said that he can say quite a few words and he picks up on things very quickly!  A genius in the making!! Ha!

This week Oliver got a new toy.  I picked him up early from "school" on Monday and we headed to Target to get a few things and a little something special.

Balls, balls and MORE balls!!

He didn't know what to think of the ball pit at first, but quickly learned how fun it is to dive into the balls and throw them everywhere!!  Not just throw the balls and dump the entire pit over so the balls go everywhere!! Ha...such a B-O-Y!!

Now, there is just one problem that I saw coming just not on day TWO!! We have a hole in the "pit"!!

I am pretty sure that a cat is to blame.  Now we just have to locate the hole and patch it up, but until then we just keep blowing it back up and watch Oliver have a blast!

Go Mommy!!!!

Woohoo I got the GREAT news today that I PASSED my test!!!!
Oliver's mommy is now an Accredited Residential Manager!!

Trick or Treat

This was Oliver's very first year to trick or treat.  Last year he was only 5 months old so we had a big party at the house instead.  Since we are still new to the trick or treating we decided to go to a few houses on our street and then go visit one of Oliver's favorite people.

My two golfers! 

Walking the neighborhood in style

 Stopping to chat with B the ninja

Once we were done with the neighborhood it was time to head to Gran Jan's house.  Oliver absolutely adores her and he acts like an angel for her!  It is so sweet to see.

 Loving on his Gran....

and then true to "the schedule" he was done and ready for bed...

A look back at my sweet Oliver last BOO day....

So tiny and precious!!!

Happy Happy BOO Day!!

Shine On!

This year was Oliver's second time to go to Pumpkin Shine on Line!!  Tony and B tagged along with us and it was their very first time to go.

Sneaking in through the "secret entrance"

Oliver loved the penguins

He wanted to take the stuffed animal head off...opps!

 Playing with Dad as we said goodbye until next year!

Bye Bye

We had so much fun and he did really well looking at all the pumpkins.  Even better we got home just in time for bed!! Schedule, schedule, schedule!!!! HA!

The Loot

Want to know what a 16 month old's 

Halloween Party loot looks like?????

All the bags are FULL of goodies!! Ha

Revel 2011

Oliver got to go to the Red River Revel twice this year.  The first time we decided to go was the first weekend it was open.  We had planned to get there when it might be a little less busy, but that didn't happen. It was packed and hot!!  There was no place to sit and enjoy anything and Oliver really doesn't like to chill in his stroller.  All this makes for a very unhappy trio; so we decided to take Oliver to the riverfront stage so he could stretch his legs and see the water.

He really enjoyed watching the waterfall, but he had no interest in touching the water.  He was doing so well and not running and THEN he happened to trip and fell face first right onto a huge rock!!  We freaked and Oliver immediately started to cry.  Jacob picked him up and the blood was running out of his mouth.  We were so worried that he had really hurt himself!!

He stopped crying pretty quickly, but would not let us look in his mouth.  We decided that we were definitely done for the day and headed back to the car.  When we got to the car we managed to check us mouth for a split second.  He wasn't missing any teeth and appeared to only have busted his lip really bad.

These are the pictures before the BIG fall....

 When he woke up the next morning his mouth was swollen and he had a cut on the outside of his mouth!! The swelling was gone by the following morning.  The first of many bumps and bruises for a BOY!

For our second trip to the Revel we decided to take a half a day off from work and go during the week.  We picked Oliver up from school early and headed to the Revel during the "quiet hours".

First we stopped by the Lacrosse booth to say hi and then settled in with some yummy nachos.  Oliver nibbled on some chips and wandered around being silly.

Then we decided to go back down to the kids area before it got to crowded.  I was excited for Oliver to go "grocery shopping" at Brookshires!!  That was always my very favorite thing to do at the Revel.  Its like a mini SuperMarket Sweep!!! (loved that show)

He did really well with picking stuff up and throwing it in his buggy.  He also liked to try and bring me some of his items too.  It was so cute and then he just decided he was done and ran to me and left Jacob to "checkout"!

We hung out for a little bit longer but then it began to get hot and crowded again and Oliver was getting fussy.  So we decided that the Revel 2011 was over for the Doyle's.