Mother's Day 2013

Precious MOMents

Daddy and Ollie gave mama a wonderful treat this mother's day morning (aside from the fact that our child was acting almost completely normal by this time...)  I got to sleep in!  I was up and at 'em by 9, but that was a 3 hour extension of my normal sleep time.  Taylor and Oliver had made me a special project while I was asleep, they traced Ollie's hands and made me a card:)  It was wonderful!  We were playing outside in the pretty sunshine even before Nana and Sarah left for church (Papa had to work...the first time he has EVER worked on Mother's Day since I was born!).  I encouraged Taylor to go to church and I soaked up the time with a happy baby...Oliver is easy-going and super happy most mornings.  

The first time Mimi and Papa came to visit after Ollie was released from the hospital (the first time) and was still sort of mobile, Mimi made up a game called "shoe boomba".  They would line up Ollie's shoes on the outside of the stair case and poke them through the spindles to make them fall down- "go boomba".  This is an exhausting game....lots of up and down!  Well, Oliver decided he wanted to play again today.  I played with him for awhile, but I needed to make his lunch so he could go down for his nap on time.  The kitchen is right off of the back hallway, where shoe boomba is played, so I allowed Ollie to keep playing on his own.  His lunch of PB &J (sodium free, except for the bread) doesn't take but a couple of minutes to make....so, imagine my surprise when I walked in on this:

Little man decided to CLIMB UNASSISTED onto Daisy's kennel so that he could put shoes on the highest steps.  Being the concerned mother that I am, I made sure he was steady and ran to grab the camera (relax, it was only a few steps away).  Oliver obligingly smiled for the camera (behind his hand) ...it was easy to tell he was very proud of himself.  I obligingly scolded him, then practically cried from joy.  Needless to say, I moved the kennel so he wouldn't be tempted to repeat this feat. My little stinker.  Shortly after this performance, everyone returned home from church and we got Ollie ready for nap time.

When Taylor put Oliver down for his nap, he prayed with him before hand that he would wake up happy-  lately the time between nap time and bed time has been tough.  Apparently, waking up is really challenging for OMS kids since every one of their sense (particularly their eyes) is overloaded after having been asleep.  According to Nana's note in Oliver's journal:  "Nana and Papa (Sarah too) kept you in the afternoon-evening so mom and dad could go to Avery's baptism!  You were a peach, woke up happy from your nap- ate and played until bath and bed. What a sweet boy!"  Thanks for watching our boy....we had a wonderful time sharing Avery's special moment with her and the family.