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ALL GONE!

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Gorgeous trick of the moment: “All gone”.  I started this a few weeks ago and it didn’t take long for Ollie to cotton on.  Basically when we finished his food I would put my hands up and say “all gone”.  Now whenever you say it Ollie does the same thing.  Even cuter is when he tips his bowl up and does it. 

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We’ve been down the coast a bit lately with Nanna Freddy and Poppy Mick.  All of us have been enjoying the restaurants and coffee shops on our doorstep (literally) and this includes Ollie.  He got to enjoy his first (and second) babycino.  As you can see from his chocolate moustache, he totally loved it.  The best bit was the group of Japanese tourists who thought him sitting there with his little legs crossed drinking his cino was worthy of them all taking photos.

While at the coast we had Ollie’s aunties Peta and Zoe come and stay along with Ollie’s “only cousin in the world”, Jackson.  Upon realising this fact, Jackson has taken his role very seriously and doted upon Ollie, giving him lots of cuddles and even giving him some much loved horsey rides around the lounge.   Ollie loved having someone to rough around with.

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Another activity at the coast has been riding Ollie’s trike around the apartment and out in the common areas.  Couple this with his recently acquired skill of knocking and you’ve got a little boy who is doing “knock and run” on the doors to the neighbouring apartments!!

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Look at the food on that face.  You should have seen the chair, the bib, the floor.  We’ve taken to putting newspapers underneath him to catch the inevitable stream of food that finds itself flung over the side of the highchair.  This is getting even worse now that Ollie is exercising his independence in feeding himself for every meal, even smooshy stuff like cereal.  This week he has taken a shot at using a spoon to shovel stuff into his mouth.  It really is amazing to watch.  But very messy.

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Obear’s vocabulary is growing at a very fast rate these days.  He has added a number of words this week including “duck”.  He had seen rubber ducks in his books but the clincher was when Nanna Freddy took him for a walk and they saw a mummy duck with a flock of baby ducks (funny story – she told us about it all day and then that night on the news we saw that the RSPCA had rescued a flock of baby ducks from a nearby drain but had not yet been able to locate mummy duck – perhaps she was at the nearby casino??).

And one more photo, just because he is WAY too cute in this one…

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