Projects and a Lawn Ornament

On Friday afternoon Oliver decided he wanted to go to the basement and do projects with Davis. He stood at the basement door, pounding on it, and yelling: "Daddy!" "Hammer!" "Drill!" "Projects!" I have no idea how he got it in his head that he wanted to go to the basement and work as it has been awhile since Davis has had projects going on down there, and it has been quite some time since Oliver has been in the basement. Anyway, Oliver was overjoyed when Davis got home from work and they could go down to the basement and work. Despite the warmer weather this weekend Oliver wanted to spend most of the weekend in the basement.


We did manage to drag Oliver out of the basement for a walk. Given the warmer temperatures we put him in his fleece suit rather than his full snowsuit. There is something about this suit, one of the many fantastic hand-me-downs we've gotten from my cousin, that we love. And, for the most part, other people seem to love it too. When we were out on our walk many people commented, people on foot and driving by in cars, on his great suit.

His little friend Carragh however, is not a big fan. Just before Christmas Oliver and I were out in front of our house putting up garland. Oliver was in his suit and was, for once, just standing still. When Brigid and Carragh pulled up Carragh was scared to get out of the car - until we pulled off Oliver's hood and until Oliver said hello. And Brigid, well, she thought I was putting out a holiday lawn ornament.