First present!

Odin just opened his first holiday gift! Sure, he's gotten lots of gifts from family, but this was the first one that we wrapped up and gave him for the holidays as a special occasion.

We didn't have our camera, so we tried to use the laptop, but when that thing is out, it's all he'll go for, so we couldn't get him to pay attention to the present. But, he did unwrap it a little, and it was a little duck puppet book.

We'd been wrapping presents earlier (finished most of our holiday shopping) and just couldn't wait to open some, but we knew we wanted to wait for the actually holidays, so we got our fix by letting Odin open one of his.

Standing more!

So Odin can actually hold himself up standing with no assistance.

He can't get to standing on his own, sure he can pull himself up to standing on things, but he doesn't stand on his own. But we can set him standing up and let go and he'll stand there as long as he wants. You can see him make corrections in his legs and actually prevent himself from falling. It's amazing!

First Thanksgiving

Odin had his first Thanksgiving! He slept on both the ride there and the ride back (we went all the way to Roseburg) so we didn't have to deal with him being upset for 2 hours. He was able to eat some of the things we had, which he loved, and played with relatives. Rylie (our cousin) is really good with him, and he played with his Great-Grandpa George as well. He had a great time.

Standing!

Odin just stood on his own! He didn't stand up, we had put him in the standing position, but he didn't fall! And this wasn't the kind of thing where he's balancing for a second and then falls, he was actually using the muscles in his legs. We could see him twitching and correcting things, and he'd sway a little bit but then move and stay standing! It was so amazing!

Also, the poor guy has a cold. I've come down with one and now his nose wont stop running, plus he's coughing a little bit. He's a little more cranky, but otherwise it doesn't seem to be affecting him; he's still energetic, happy, laughing, playing with things. We're taking him to the doctor at 3:30 as a precaution but mostly we just wanna see if there's anything we can do for him.

Whups

I just noticed that sometimes it looks like all the pictures aren't in there. But that's just because it's not sorting them right. If it sorts them by "filename" then the most recent ones will be at the end, because I number all of them. If it's not sorting it like that, some may be hard to pick through and find when I put in new ones.

More pictures!

New pix of Odin are up. Numbers are 141 through 163. There's also some Halloween pictures in that group. My mother-in-law took some as well, but I haven't uploaded those yet. I will soon.

I swear he did this by himself.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

We went and saw The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D on Thursday and when we got home we had to buy the soundtrack. Odin listened to the movie while he slept through it, and now he loves the soundtrack. Every time we play it he gets really happy, his favorite songs are This is Halloween and Making Christmas.

First blood

Odin fell and started crying, so we picked him up to make him feel better and noticed he was bleeding from the mouth. Not much, just a trickle, and very light. So we guessed it must have been from his fourth tooth finally popping out (because it has now) or he bit his mouth somewhere when he fell, because it stopped as fast as it started and he didn't seem to care five minutes later.

He's had a lot of fun all day. He's almost crawling more often than he creeps, soon he'll be mainly crawling, and he can get himself up to standing on something as easy as he can breathe, so we have to watch him a lot.

He's also really smart. I was siting outside one of Alyssa's classrooms today, she wasn't in there, but when the class got out and people started pouring into the hallway, he kept looking for her. We've waited for her there before, but this time we were just sitting there for fun. He didn't see her, and he started following the students to their lockers because he was trying to find her. Pretty clever for him to remember that she sometimes comes out of there.

Music and fun

While I was in class, Alyssa took Odin to a Baby Time at the public library. They play sing-a-long games and read stories to babies up to 12 months, and then they all get to have play time together. It's during one of my classes, but if I go with them I'd be the only father there.

Crawling! (really)

Odin is actually crawling now! He works his knees and arms and he can crawl around. He doesn't do it all the time because it's not as easy as creeping, but he's capable of doing it and he keeps doing it more and more.