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Check out Ollie bear - literally!!

We came across this great company called mymakebelieve.com.au that sells the most gorgeous costumes for babies and kids. We originally planned to get just one for our friend Audrey's first birthday present but we couldn't resist getting one for our very own Ollie bear. It is completely impractical but I think you would have to agree that he looks completely adorable in it. I can't wait for Halloween but we will have to find a few more excuses to dress him up in it before then. The bunny costume for Audrey is equally as adorable, although she wasn't too sure about it at first, but when she looked in the mirror she saw how gorgeous she looked.

As the weather was so nice today we took Ollie to the local footy club to watch a game. Ollie wore his Cats jumpsuit so he looked the part, but he wasn't really into it and slept through most of the time we were there. We had to cut short our trip as the Cats were playing at home and Ollie wanted to make sure we didn't miss a second of them thumping Essendon mercilessly (sorry Kaye, I couldn't resist!).
In Ollie developments, he has totally discovered his feet of late. He loves to check them out and you can see his mind ticking over, trying to figure out how he can possibly jam them into his mouth. Sometimes I help him bring them closer to his face and he just grabs whatever clothing he is wearing at the time and uses that to try and pull his foot into his mouth. Some of the slightly older babies in our baby group are already advanced in this technique and look like they have a great time sucking on their feet so I can't imagine it will be long before Ollie has this new trick down pat.
He has also become a massive drool monster. I'm not sure if this is an indication that he will be teething soon or just par for the course, but he seems to permanently have at least one, sometimes two, fists wedged firmly into his mouth and bucketloads of drool pouring out. He had a bib on the other day and after about an hour we had to take it off as he had managed to absolutely soak it with drool. Totally gross. He also applies this drool factory to toys including poor bunny who is getting totally soaked.

I've also included a picture I took of my new method that allows me to get the laundry done when Ollie is awake. Not overly practical, but sometimes it just has to be done.

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