Kites Up High

Ollie loves to have things hanging from our living room ceiling. He especially loves helping Mama and Daddy hang them up by climbing on our step ladder and pretending it's a drum. (He drums on EVERYTHING these days...his favorite being the lids of metal garbage cans. He tells us he's a chapel drummer. One of Ollie's favorite things about chapel is watching the musicians.) For a while this year, we had kites and rainbows hanging from the ceiling (we now have suns and teddy bears). I'm posting this pic because of the video below...another clip from a while ago that I found as I was sorting through pics & videos. I think it's from June. I already miss the pudginess to his body, which is starting to go away...and the cute way he spoke then.

Color Day! We sorted some of Ollie's toys by color which he thought was really cool. He's pretty much got his colors down now. (And he does a super job of counting. Though, the other night, we were at a 27th birthday party for a friend, and Ollie started counting the birthday candles. "un...two...free...four...cow!" Not quite sure what that was about...maybe the effects of too much sugar! but he got a good laugh. heehee)
One of his favorite things to do is tell me when to stop or go at stop lights. And, when a light is red, he'll point to it and say, "Turn green!" He's pretty good at getting it to change colors for me. :) The other day, we were at a 4-way stoplight, with all four lights red. He was telling the red light to turn green when he noticed that, instead, the lights going the opposite way had turned from red to green. Surprised, he said, "Mama those other lights over there turned green. Go!" Probably a good thing he wasn't driving that day.