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.  

Happy Birthday to Odin!

Happy Birthday it was!  Odin had a wonderful day.  He went to Salem with Daddy and Uncle Joe, who was visiting for the weekend.  They went to a couple of museum and witch shops and had a "spooky" time.  (That's a little joke for Daddy).  Odin had a little bit of pumpkin cake and played the night away with his new awesome toys, with his best girl friends Jessica and Nicole!  He was exhausted by bed time, but I'm sure he had sweet dreams.  

He has been a riot this week.  Everything he does seems to make me laugh.  He is starting to mimic things I do.  I had food on my fingers, so I licked it off and must of made a funny sound so he put his fingers in his mouth and was trying to make the sound.  He can now do the sign for dog.  Jim and I have been doing this sign since we started doing signs, but this week he figured it out and does it all the time when he sees a dog.  

He cracks himself up.  I hear him laughing at himself when he is playing or riding in the car.  It is to funny!  Tonight he was playing with the pots and pan and putting them over his head and yelling in them.  Then he would crack up laughing.  He is such a ham!

We went to the doctor yesterday, he weighs 24 lbs 6 oz and is 31 3/4 inches long.  He had to get some vaccinations which he did not care for.  They did a toe prick to check his hemoglobin and it was good.  However, we still need to go into Boston next week to see the "blood doctor" for his annual checkup.  We'll keep you posted.

Picture perfect

Sorry it has taken us so long to write an update, we have been busy! Odin is changing everyday.  He now is walking a bit more, a few feet.  He gets to excited and starts to go to fast and falls over.  He still loves the camera.  In the picture to the left he is playing peek a boo under neath Gretta.  He is catching on to baby signs very rapidly.  He can do the sign for: more, all done, telephone, dragon, light, fan.  He loves the telephone.  Here is a picture of him doing the sign for telephone. Every phone he sees or hears he does the sign, it is very cute.  We have a dragon made out of rope that our friends Mark and Carolyn got for us awhile ago.  Odin loves the dragon so much we had to make up a sign for it.  I'm trying to find a cool dragon toy for him.   Here are some more photos of our play time today, enjoy! 

Party Animal

Odin has quite the social life lately!  Two weekends ago, Nana had a birthday party for all the September babies (Auntie Michele, Auntie Tammy, Daddy and cousin Jessica).  Odin had a lot of fun giving everyone their gifts and helping to open them too.  He tried a little bit of birthday cake. The following day, Aunt Tammy and Uncle Ron had another party for Jessica (what a lucky girl, two parties!!).  Grancy gave Odin some pizza, feta cheese and anything else that was on her plate.  Odin LOVES to eat.  He now gets mad if we are eating and we don't give him anything.  This Saturday we went to Russell Orchards and saw some goats, horses, ducks, swans and BIG pumpkins and ate (of course) some apple donuts.   Odin met baby Landon for the first time, one of Mom's friends from work.  What a cutie!! Later we met a second baby, baby Clayton.  Two new babies in one day, Odin felt like such a big boy!!! Odin gives a shout out to baby Landon and baby Clayton, says you all can chat later and he will you give you both the real scoop!!  Yesterday, the Special Care Nursery at the Beverly Hospital had a reunion.  So, we went and saw the doctors and nurses that treated Odin.  It was pretty cool, there were over 200 families that were attending.  There were babies EVERYWHERE.  But it was so awesome to see how many lives are touched by the good work the doctors and nurses do.  They truly are wonderful people and were great with Odin.  With his

 birthday coming up, it reminds me how grateful I am for their help (and patience during the hysterical times)!  On Sunday evening, Odin spent some time with Auntie Michele and Uncle Garry and had a blast.  First of all, Uncle Garry got Odin some new awesome digs that he couldn't wait to wear.  He thinks 

he is hot stuff.  Odin has walked with pretty much everyone but Mommy and Daddy!!  He has been taking a few steps at Nana's house, but last night, Unc and Auntie got him to walk 4-5 steps!  Now he is off..... tonight he thought he was super man and walking all around (it must be the shirt!!)  He has five teeth now, with more coming in.  He is eating some #3 baby foods and other solid foods.  He is starting to want more solid foods and growing less and less interested in the baby food.  He is still sleeping well.  He has been waking up in the morning after about 11 hours.  He was going to bed between six and six-thirty, getting up around 5am.  So, we have been trying to keep him up a little later so he will sleep in a little bit.  He gets up and after about an hour and a half he wants to go back to sleep and will sleep for another two hours!  He has thinned out 

a bit from being on the move.  

Weighing my options

Well...at least someone in the Garron household likes the scale!  Odin can entertain himself for a pretty long time with that thing.  Not sure what is so fun about it, but Odin gets a kick out of it!  Really, who needs to buy expensive toys?  I put some coins in a small tupperware container and he loves to shake it.  That is the first toy of choice in the morning time when Mommy still isn't quite awake yet!  Odin is just so much fun.  I know I keep saying that, but honestly, life with him just keeps getting better and better.  It fills my heart to see him discovering new things everyday and the new expressions on his face.  It will not be long before he is walking.  He took a step at Nana's house the other day and is becoming more confident around the house.  He is very steady on his feet.  He transitions from sitting to standing very well. 

He is still teething.  It looks like some other upper teeth are getting ready to come out.  He has been sleeping a little bit more than usual, but I think it is a combination of getting his teeth and becoming more mobile.  He takes two naps a day and is usually in bed by 6 or 6:30 pm for eleven or twelve hours.  (He takes after his Mama!!!!)   He is quite the babbler these days.  You can tell he tries to say certain words, sometimes he gets pretty close!  I can only imagine the stories he is going to make up when he can talk!

The Mad Potter

No, no, no....that is what Odin hears a lot these days.  Odin is in to absolutely everything!  Yesterday, he found the cabinet with all the pots and pans in it for the first time, got everything out and had a ball!  I can't believe how strong he is, it amazes everyday.  He pulled out a big stack of steel bowls and pans, which are pretty heavy.  He just swung them out of the cabinet like no big deal.  He has figured out that he can look out the windows in the living room and at Nana's house.  He was watching Daddy doing yard work the other day and thought it was fun.  He has this funny squeal when he gets excited.  I call him my little teradactyl.   When he sees his bottle, he squeals.  When he is playing with a toy he likes, he squeals.  It is very funny.  We are all done breastfeeding.  It was a little emotional for Mom to stop, but Odin seems to be doing just fine. His top two teeth are coming in.  The last two nights he has woken up screaming, but once I put some orajel on his gums he calms down.  His gums are HUGE!  It has been a long time coming for those top teeth to break the skin.  He is also an eating machine!  The other day we were at a cookout and he ate half of my pasta salad!  We have given him a little bit of fish to make sure he doesn't have a reaction and he LOVES it!  When he wants more food he just opens his mouth like saying 'feed me some more you dummy!'  I gave him a bowl of fruit baby food tonight for him to feed himself and this is what I got in return.... 

Hi All!  Sorry it has been a few weeks since our last entry, we have been busy!  Odin attended his second birthday party two weekends ago.  His friend Jack turned one.  Odin had a great time at Jack's party.  There were two other boys there that had just turned one as well.  All the boys were so cute playing together!  Odin had some 'cake' (it was zucchini cake with cream cheese for frosting), which he REALLY liked.  I've only found one thing Odin doesn't like so far, watermelon!  He makes a horrible face and spits it out, very funny.  

Odin wants to walk so bad!  When he crawls, he stops and pushes up on his feet (like a downward facing dog, maybe he is practicing his yoga!).  He has done the transition from the couch to the coffee table and back while standing up.  He was in the bathroom with me this morning and I don't think he realized that he was standing without holding on to anything; he was engrossed in a toy he was holding.  

This past weekend Odin had a very special friend visit, Elishah, from Tobago.  Odin loved playing with Elishah and followed him around everywhere he went.