Cincinnati Museum Center--Great Christmas Present!

I know this is just going to be a string of pictures of Oliver playing with stuff, but he (we) got a membership to the Museum Center and used it for the first time yesterday. It is going to be a great place to spend time this year. Thanks, Gramma and Papa!

Back to Kentucky

I didn't take very many pictures at Christmas this year, but here are the few that I took on our latest visit to Michigan.


Oliver and I got to visit with the Holmans last week Monday. Oliver and Anni decorated Christmas cookies. Oliver spent much of the time licking the knife and his fingers. He also had more than his share of M&Ms.

Oliver and Anni also went swimming at the Spring Lake Aquatic Center. They had a great time and were very hungry for cookies when we got back.

This is Oliver after Grandma Menkveld's party at Aunt Debbie's last week Sunday. It was so much fun! Oliver especially enjoyed chasing Justin's hovercraft, digging for candy, and cleaning up the pinata. It was great to see family.

This is Oliver and Landon in one of the better "sharing" moments =).

Oliver made a pink snowman with his Play-Doh stocking stuffer at Gramma and Papa's house.

Snow Day!

We had our 2nd snow day for the year and got to play outside a little bit. Oliver does NOT like the snow. He spent most of the time outside asking me to wipe the snow off of his boots and sled. "Mommy, I got snow. I need wipe!"

Looks thrilled about all this, right?

Not nearly as fond of Santa...

Ran into Santa at the Levee...Oliver was not nearly as enthusiastic about him...

Festival of Lights

Sam was working last night, so I took Oliver to the Festival of Lights at the zoo. These pics are blurry because I took them at night on my phone, but you'll get the point.

Oh--and I had to take a picture of the baby cougars because they were so cute.

Oliver made this gingerbread man follow us around for about 1/2 hour..."come on! come on!". The gingerbread man played with Oliver on the playground and took him over to see the goats. I, for my part, thought it was creepy to have an 8-ft, silent gingerbread man tailing us.