My favorite video

I just got two new videos up:

This is Odin playing at Grandma's house. She just put up this new swing and he loved it for a while until he saw Grandpa in the garage and wanted to go explore. He also plays with that fountain every time he goes over and grabs for the same rocks.

These are the first videos we have of Odin. The first clip is Odin being born. It's really great because he shows him coming out and then it looks up at the clock to see the time (props to Grandma Paula for the camera work). The second clip is right after the first, the nurses and doctors pulled Odin out and immediately gave him to Alyssa. The third clip is after we cleaned him up and brought him back to her. They both stopped crying when we got them together. It was so sweet. I wish I could go back and re-live that day over, and over, and over.

Shoes!

For a while, we've been trying to get Odin to wear some shoes that have solid soles, rather than the soft-soled leather ones he loves. It never works, he always hates it and tries to kick them off. Odin's Grandma Paula bought him some sandals a few days ago and every day we've been putting them on him for a few more minutes so he'll get used to them. Last night, he was finally happy to wear them. He actually seemed a little tickled by the idea. It's a shame it's too cold to actually wear them around yet!

PB

Odin is obsessed with peanut butter. We put it on toast all the time and we give him toast for breakfast a lot, but he kept screaming for ours. He's a year old and he hasn't had any allergy problems so we decided to give him some. He loves the stuff! He can't get enough of it!

Vids again

Here are some videos of Odin finally up:

From the birthday party:

I don't have the pictures up yet, but I will soon.

Our fun day at Alton Baker Park:

There's tons more new ones up there too, I just thought I'd post these two.

Drawing!

We just got him doing this:

Distinctly right-handed. We kept giving him different markers in different hands and he always put them in his right to start drawing.

Birthday Pary

Odin had a really great birthday party on Saturday.

We went to Papa's Pizza and he was passed around to relatives and friends as we waited for the pizza's we'd ordered. Apparently he convinced my mom that it was a great idea to give him tons of root beer so he sat and drank that forever. We all ate pizza and talked for a while, then he had his cake. It was really a cupcake but he still had a lot of fun with it. He sat between Austin and Henry (2 others about his age) and they just all made a mess together.

Then we took him to the play area and stuck him in the ball pit, and oh man I've never seen him so happy. We had to stay there for a long time. Then I took him up in the tubes to play and he just loved crawling around to every corner of that place and going down the slide, but he kept going back to the ball pit for more fun. After the party, my mom and step-dad came back to our place for some fun and he played with them a bit and looked at his new presents.

He had a great day, and so did the rest of us, it was so fun.

I got tons of pictures and video but I can't do anythign with them yet, and I'm waiting for more from other people who had cameras.

Happy Birthday Odin!

So Odin turned 1 today!

I can't believe it's been that long. Neither can anybody else. He had a nice birthday, hanging out with friends and such. We gave him a little more treats than usual and let him tell us what to do when he wanted to do it. Much later that night we all went over to Brandon's house so Odin could hang with Seymour and we all toasted to his health. It was a great day for him and he's got a great party coming up as well!

Fussy

So Odin is in the habit of throwing fits now. He really loves to clean things, so he screams and screams until we give him a sponge. Then he has to stand on the counter and clean it. His favorite place to be is on the stove where he gets on his hands and knees and washes it with the sponge. He also loves to get on the table. When we don't let him, or when we take him off, he just has a fit. So now we're at the stage where we have to kinda ignore him during a tantrum so he'll learn that tantrums wont get him what he wants, but we're not yet at the stage where we can teach him not to do something.

At school today, a friend of Alyssa's asked me to bring Odin by class today where he had arranged for the teacher to play happy birthday on the piano to get everyone to sing. We didn't tell Alyssa so she was surprised too. It was really cute because everybody in that whole building has kinda adopted Odin so they were happy to sing to him (even though his birthday isn't until tomorrow) and he got so excited when they did it.