The Holidays

For the past couple of weeks, we've asked Ollie if he wanted to spend a week with his Grandparents after they came to visit. He emphatically said "NO" every time we asked. They came for their visit and after opening his presents from them, he was asked again and was ready to go right then. We thought he'd get scared and decide at the last minute not to go. We kept asking him and he still said he wanted to go. He played with all his new stuff after it was put together and still wanted to go.

We went to dinner that night at TGI Fridays. He was tired and hungry, but he still wanted to go. We came home after that and he insisted Grandpa Steve give him a bath. Little did Grandpa Steve know that he was going to get squirted with the water gun. He ended up all wet. He was excited about going the next day.

He was up early that day and he was asked if he was still going. He popped out of bed and said he was ready to go. After getting dressed and getting set in the car with his stuff, he and his sister waved goodbye and left. Apparently, we aren't as needed by him as we thought. A couple of hours into the ride he was still doing fine. Once at my parents house he announce "Here we are at my new place for awhile". I think he'll be just fine for the week. We'll just have to see how he handled all the people at the New Year's Eve party at my Mom's last night.

From them he got clothes, Dinosaurs, Farm animals, shelves built by my dad that looks like a castle, a portable DVD player (which was used on his trip to KC), a new Land Before Time DVD, a talking Grill and a dinosaur matchbox pinball type of deal.





I also forgot the train table you see in the background of the picture. All in all he cleaned up pretty well this Christmas. Now if only we can get him to want to come back home next weekend!