Vids 'n' stuff

I uploaded 3 more videos of Odin, including this one:

For some reason, he just loves to clean stuff up lately.

Odin's First Birthday

We don't know what we're doing but we know it'll be on the 5th and probably at our apartment complex. He also has a wish list.

Food

We got a banana for Odin at a cafeteria and we hadn't even handed it to him or said anything yet and he pointed at it and yelled NANA! He's so smart, he knew what it was and he wanted us to give it to him. And he's also obsessed with Challah bread right now. He loves the stuff.

The Halls of Odin

We moved everything around yesterday and made Odin his own room. We call it The Halls of Odin.

At first, we had his crib in our room. Well, he never slept in it because we co-slept with him. But then he needed his own bed because he was tossing around all night wanting to move around a lot and that would wake us up so we'd wake him up and we'd all be up every hour. So we moved into the living room on the futon and let him sleep in our room. Well, we decided we wanted our room back, and our neighbors hated having him cry over their heads (go figure, they have a baby his age too, what's the big deal?), so we moved him into the living room and got to have our room back. That worked great, except when we have people over, we all have to head into our bedroom or the office room. Plus, if you leave to use the bathroom or get something from the kitchen, you wake him up, and you can't watch a movie in the living room.

We've sold some furniture and decreased the space we need because we have a laptop instead of a desktop computer, so we moved some stuff out of the office (we called it The Lab) and put all of Odin's things in there. It's great because all his dressers and shelves aren't crowding the rest of our house, and he's got his own room we can shut him in to go to sleep and still have the rest of the house. Plus, he has so little furniture that it can be spread out around the room so it looks like there's tons of space, and he can mess it up as much as he wants and we don't have to pick all his toys up every night. He really likes being able to just go wild in there without us having to tell him not to get into something or putting things away once he walks away from them.

Happy fun

So we got some video of Odin playing with Seymour at Brandon's place last night.

Puppy!

Last night we all went to Brandon's house and Odin got to play with Seymour, his Bichon. Odin loved him! It was so cute watching them chase each other around the house. What was really cool was that Seymour was really careful with Odin and Odin really quickly learned that he needed to be soft and not grabby with the puppy.

Growing

Odin is so aware now; he does all sorts of things that tell you he knows what's going on. He knows the front door is the "goodbye door" when people leave. When Alyssa puts on her coat, he knows it's time for us to leave, so he rushes over to grab her legs so she wont go. Now he mimics us and stabs his plates with forks and knives.

Tub Fun!

I haven't put up a video for a while, so here's a fun little one! (Might take a while because I think it's a big file.)

Uh oh

So Odin is pretty good at saying Uh Oh and he's using it a lot. Also, today I saw him run. He just wanted to go fast so he did. I couldn't get him to do it again, but he'll do it soon. We've also trained him to kiss. He's been doing it to us a lot lately so today when he got in one of his fits we'd point to a part of our face and say "Kiss!" and he'd do it right there. You can tell him what parts to kiss and who and he'll do it with a smile.

We still haven't figured out where to go for his birthday.

Cute hat

I haven't posted in a while because I've been bogged down with school and our internet went out, but I did get this:

Our friend Emily made this monkey hat for him and it looks great!