Hi All:  Sorry it has been awhile since our last post.  Odin is keeping us VERY busy!  The little man is so curious and has to check out everything.  We have been having a fun fall.  A couple of weeks ago we went to a picnic to celebrate our friends' marriage!  It was a beautiful day and Odin had a great time playing in the leaves.  We are psyched for Halloween.  As some of you may know, I LOVE Halloween!  So we have all the decorations out and are preparing for a fun, spooky night. Odin really likes the decorations.  We made up a sign for one of my decorations, a haunted house that lights up.  We call it the 'spoooky house'.  So, whenever we see Halloween decorations we can get him to do the sign for 'spooky'.  

He has transitioned into the big  boy sippy cup.  He likes to drink out of our glasses, but he still can't get the whole swallowing thing down when he does.  I use a big plastic cup to rinse his hair at bath time.  His new thing is getting the cup full of water and drinking it.  A couple of times it has gone down the wrong pipe, but that doesn't stop him.  He thinks it is fun and laughs.  We got him a little play kitchen.  I had taught him how to stir the pot with one of our big bowls and wooden spoon.  So now he 'stirs the pot' with his little play skillet and spatula.  Who knows, maybe we have a true culinary artist in the making.