Favorite Videos

Well, I haven't posted in a while because of all my homework, and it's been made clear to me that some people really like it when they can read more on this blog, (Hi Gradma!) so I thought I'd put this picture up.

From Family pix 11/5/08 11:22 AM

Lately Odin has been going through the phase of having favorite videos to watch, and we have to watch them over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over.......

And then we watch them again.

We don't mind, it's really cute. And the great thing is that they teach him a lot. He just got over watching a video that went through the alphabet and played classical music while explaining numbers, colors, animals, etc, and now he's on one that's a clay-mation based on the Little People toy set he's got a few items from. As I type this, he's working on his 7th viewing of it today already.

Grandma Paula brought over a booster seat that's been working great. He go tired of his high-chair and we got tired of how messy and grimmy it was. The booster seat lets him sit in one of our chairs (which he was obsessed with when he got tired of his high-chair) and it has a removable tray so clean-up is really easy. (I don't know why we didn't do this sooner!) Odin had been getting used to knowing that he could only eat food if it was on his plate (a new development we were really happy about) so now he wants it on the tray. You can prepare him a sandwich on the tray and he'll go sit down in the chair and you can just feed it to him that way.

He's got tons of new words now, and he's trying really hard to string sentences together. He's gotten a lot better with cups so he can walk around and drink from them without spilling. He also remembers EVERYTHING so we can't walk by a store he's ever gotten a snack at without having to go in there for a snack....

As for what's going on with us, just most of what you'd expect. Schoolwork is bearing down hard, especially as dead-week approaches. Alyssa lost her backpack but it was returned with her text books and homework inside. We're lucky she forgot to bring the Laptop that day or we'd be out $1300 worth of computer. I've been neglecting to turn in homework lately because I've been so sick. And being sick has made it impossible to catch-up on everything I missed. But oh well.....

We're trying to find a way to come to Portland over Thanksgiving, but we just don't know how easy it's going to be....

That's all for now, I have to get Odin ready to catch a bus and meet Alyssa for Pizza. That's another thing, he's had pizza every day this week....