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oliver connell | day twelve hundred & twelve

tcp — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:35:18 +0000

It’s no secret that Oliver loves chocolate. I have no idea where he gets it from (~~Dana~~) but I would aptly call this post of images: “The Many (chocolate) Faces of Oliver.” I think you’ll especially enjoy his “growling” face.

Cheers!
t.

…and of course this post wouldn’t be complete unless I included one of Oliver’s photos of me:

oliver connell | day twelve hundred & five

tcp — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:31:17 +0000

Another set of fun images of Oliver and I goofing around. This time, we were testing a new lens, the Lensbaby Composer with Sweet 35 Optics. It’s a lens that allows you to tilt and shift your perspective to get some pretty crazy blurred edges. It’s a manual focusing lens which also adds an interesting twist, especially when I’ve been shooting with autofocus lenses for quite some time. Some of these images are blurry but to me, they really tell the story of my morning with Oliver.

So, Oliver and I took turns photographing each other. It’s really a lot of fun and so cool to watch him get better and making photographs. I’m definitely a proud papa.

Cheers!
t.

oliver connell | day eleven hundred & ninety

tcp — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:00:05 +0000

I’m not really a morning person. Never have been and frankly, I doubt I ever will. But something that makes mornings a lot more bearable is having Oliver come up to our room and cuddle with us in bed. When he was younger, we never really brought him into our bed. Honestly, he wasn’t a baby that wanted to be with us. He would feel most comfortable in his crib and would ask to go back there if we tried to bring him in bed with us. But when we converted his room to have a big boy bed, he started waking up in the mornings and coming upstairs to get us. Sometimes he would bring his toys up to play on the bed while Dana and I would try to wake up.

This morning was particularly fun, not because of anything super special, just because Dana was able to capture the feeling of what it’s like to cuddle with my son. NOTHING beats it!

Cheers!
t.

oliver connell | day eleven hundred & eighty-eight

tcp — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:23:13 +0000

Oliver continues to get better at writing his name. It’s still a work in progress, but he’s happy to try and we’re happy that he is just….trying. He certainly loves his chalkboard.

He’s also getting better at taking photos of us. He has a hard time holding the DSLR and looking through the viewfinder (what 3-year-old wouldn’t?) but with a little more practice, he’ll be coming out on shoots with me in no time! See if you can pick which photo he took below?

Cheers!
t.

oliver connell | day eleven hundred & eighty-five

tcp — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:15:05 +0000

Oliver has been in swimming lessons at the Making Waves Swimming School for a couple of years now. He’s learning so much and is becoming so comfortable in the water that how can we not continue to enroll him year after year? Dana took some photos last year of Oliver in class (See Day Eight Hundred & Forty-Six). As you can see from the latest ones, Oliver has not only grown a bunch, he is more comfortable in the water.

Oh, and Oliver has his first girlfriend Julia. They’re best buds! He’s growing up so fast *sigh*

Enjoy these wonderful photos Dana took of Oliver at swimming.

Cheers!
t.

This one is too funny! Doesn’t Oliver have the “oh whatever babe” look on his face? Where did he learn that?

oliver connell | day eleven hundred & seventy-eight

tcp — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:27:18 +0000

It should come as no surprise that Oliver loves technology. He is my son after all. So when he’s looking all cute in his pajamas, watching some Cars 2 shorts on youtube, you’d better believe I pull out my camera and get a few photographs to document the moment. Any proud papa would!

Enjoy!
t.

oliver connell | day eleven hundred & seventy-seven

tcp — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:56:34 +0000

Just a couple quick shots of Oliver and Dana looking so cute and comfortable all curled up on the couch together. These are some of the best times for us – that’s for sure.

oliver connell | day eleven hundred & seventy-six

tcp — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:06:46 +0000

Oliver loves cars. Period. Exclamation Point. Whatever you want to put after that sentence, it applies. We’re not sure where he gets it from because neither Dana nor I share the same drive (no pun intended) for automobiles. I mean, we like them but we don’t LOVE them the same way Oliver does. But we do like to please our child. So, with that in mind, we ventured down to the Canadian International Auto Show. We actually had a great time. We got there before it got really busy and we were able to leave just before it got crazy. Oliver got to climb in and out of a lot of fun cars/trucks/Jeeps/etc. and I think he had a good time. We also bumped into our good friends Isabelle and Leigh which was a nice treat. Oliver also got his picture taken on a motorbike; hopefully that will be the last time we see him on one of those!

After the show, we were pretty tired so we came home and do what we always do when we are tired: we made popcorn and watched a movie together on the couch. All in all, it was a great day in the Connell household.

Cheers!
t.

If all goes according to plan, hopefully this will be my next vehicle (The Mazda CX-5)

Video Shorts: Oliver’s Valentine’s Day Present

tcp — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:59:36 +0000

Oliver received a leapfrog learning device from his Grandma and Papa for Valentine’s Day. This is him opening it.

Cheers!
t.

oliver connell | day eleven hundred & sixty-nine

tcp — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:21:21 +0000

So today was a biggie. Well it was for us at least. Dana took Oliver to her salon (Soho Salon & Spa) to get Oliver’s hair styled for once. Oliver has been getting the nine dollar hair cuts for a while and it was time to see what a professional could do (not that the people who normally cut his hair aren’t professionals but you know what I mean). Dana also had an appointment to get her hair coloured too. Since Oliver has far less hair, he was done first and one of the ladies at the salon gave him some paper and markers to colour with. So Oliver says: “I’m going to write my name” and proceeds to do so! Dana was in complete shock because although we have been working on him looking at his name and recognizing the letters, we haven’t really worked that hard with him actually spelling it out. He can draw an “O” for the first letter of his name but that was about it. Or so we thought. Oliver basically wrote out his name! He forgot the “I” (but really it’s just one stroke, that’s pretty much the easy one….) and his “E” was backwards but other than that – he did pretty great for a three year old!

So have a look at the pictures below and see for yourself!

Cheers!
t.

Oliver’s new styled haircut

And this is what Oliver wrote as his name

And Dana said: “yes, that’s it. Here’s what it looks like”

So Oliver wrote it again (to prove to us it wasn’t some fluke of nature I’m sure – he’s like that you know)