Little runner boy

Ollie was lucky enough to have a visit from his Grandpa Peter on the weekend. All the sweeter because he brought Obear an awesome (and VERY noisy) police car. The two of them had a great time racing it up and down the hallway and worked up such an appetite that they had to demolish lots of pancakes with ice cream to rebuild their energy. Grandpa was very impressed with Ollie's language skills, particularly his many requests for "Grandpa come play me". This little line is getting trotted out a lot lately and is very adorable.

Don't you just love the smell of commerce in the morning? Ollie does, he is quite the little capitalist since he got his own cash register at Christmas time. We've since filled it with Monopoly money (we can't use it to play the game as we always end up fighting - seems we were brought up on completely different rules - Nick is fiercely competitive while I don't care about the hotels and just want to drive my little silver car around the board getting money when I pass go, but anyway...). Nick took the commerce one step further this week and gave Ollie his own wallet so he had somewhere to put his money and his random assortment of loyalty cards. But the real issue was where do you keep your wallet when all you are getting around the house in is your cute little undies? Where else of course...

So for once this blog isn't just all about Ollie. Here is a pic of the latest addition to our family unit. This one still has a bit of cooking to do but we hope to have him/her join us around the end of July. Ollie is very much looking forward to being a big brother and thinks it is very cool that I have a baby in my tummy. He has given it kisses and blown it lots of raspberries but cutest of all is when he declares that he has a baby in his tummy too. Mind you after some of his big meals of late his little belly actually does stick out more than mine!

And for some live action this week is our own little future olympian. The other night there was some athletics on the television and Ollie thought the running was just brilliant. Since then he has been getting down into his starting position and waiting for us to count him down. He is a bit slow to get going at first but he gets up a fair bit of speed at the end, which probably accounts for him crashing into me. Cutest athlete I've ever seen.

We are away next week so there may be a lack of blog. Depends on many factors including technology, laziness, weather and better plans. Don't hold your breath but stay tuned for lots of holiday pics the week after.

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