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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 & forty-nine

tcp — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:48:39 +0000

Oliver and I took another visit to Grandma and Papa’s house – this time to celebrate my birthday. It’s been a great winter to head north because for the most part, the roads have been good and it’s nice to escape to some snow! We haven’t had much down here where we live.

So on this weekend, Oliver and I played outside with Grandma and Papa; enjoyed wonderful meals (my Mom certainly knows how to spoil me with food) and overall just had some fun together. We even played some indoor mini-golf! Oliver’s getting really good with his hand-eye coordination. That’s something I’ll definitely promote more of this summer when we can get outside and do some fun activities.

But for now, we’ll just have to stick to making fun photos

Cheers!
t.

This is another photo Oliver took of me!

Oliver and I gave Dana a framed print of this for Valentine’s Day…

And a short video of Oliver enjoying some lunch at Grandma & Papa’s:

oliver connell | day eleven hundred & twenty-one

tcp — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:44:57 +0000

Wow – was Christmas day a lot of fun this year! We had Santa pay us a visit early Christmas morning and he spoiled us rotten. SPOILED. ROTTEN. We had a lot of fun opening all the gifts that were left under our tree. I then got to working on cooking the bird while Oliver played with all his new toys and Dana got the house ready for our guests. We then had both sets of Grand Parents over along with Oliver’s Aunt, Uncle and Cousin for an early afternoon visit and Christmas dinner. We had a fire going for most of the day and it was super cozy in our house, the way it should be over Christmas.

Not a lot of pictures taken but a lot of great memories from a wonderful day.

Cheers!
t.

oliver connell | day one thousand & eighty-seven

tcp — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:03:19 +0000

For Oliver’s 3rd birthday, Dana and I wanted to redo his bedroom. We knew we had stretched Oliver’s sleeping in a crib for as long as we could. It’s not very often that you hear of toddlers still sleeping in a crib by their third birthday and even though Oliver was still fine with it, we wanted to do something special. We had purchased a frame and headboard the previous month, and we had gotten a new mattress for when the time came to transfer him into a big boy bed. So, the weekend before Oliver’s birthday, we shipped him off to Grandma and Papa’s house so we could make the transformation.

When Oliver came home, he absolutely loved the room and he has transitioned flawlessly into his new bed.

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I then went up and spent the day with my Mom and Dad. Since they weren’t going to see Oliver on his actual birthday, we celebrated that day instead. They spoiled him rotten (again) with clothes, matchbox cars, Chuggington trains, a new part of his track, and an awesome dinner and dessert, complete with cupcakes and ice cream. Needless to say, Oliver (and to some extent I) were in heaven!

The photo below is Oliver’s first photo of his Papa. I held the camera for him, he pointed it and pushed the button. I think it’s great!

And if you have 9 minutes, here is a video of Oliver’s birthday celebration:

All in all, we had a great and super productive weekend.

Cheers!
t.

oliver connell | day nine hundred & eighty

tcp — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:56:44 +0000

In August, Dana and I returned to our family cottage “Cedar Tip” to try another week of vacationing with Oliver. If you recall, the first trip was when Oliver was still quite young and unfortunately, it was more work than a vacation. We had high hopes for this years trip and it didn’t disappoint. We spent the week with Oliver’s Grandma and Papa and our close family friends the Hodgdon’s from the States. Oliver quickly developed a crush on Christie, who was absolutely wonderful at entertaining him.

We enjoyed boat rides, shore Lunches, trips to local towns, fishing, swimming and eating. The weather was just wonderful too!

The week seemed to go by so quickly this time around. We are very happy with the memories we created at Cedar Tip this year and look forward to many more family vacations up there in the years to come.

Below are a bunch of images we took and a short video. I hope you enjoy.

and a short video of Oliver’s new crush Christie playing catch with him

oliver connell | day nine-hundred & thirty-two

tcp — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:47:03 +0000

Another Father’s Day has come and gone. Once again, the Ruprecht’s and the Connell’s got together in Port Severn at Mom & Dad Ruprecht’s place to celebrate Father’s Day. We spent a lot of the day out on the water enjoying the warm summer air. Oliver and Julia had a blast together as usual. The evening was capped off with a great dinner outside on the back lawn. A nice way to spent a day, if I do say so myself.

Please enjoy the photos and video below.

Cheers!
t.

And a video of the kid’s having some fun:

oliver connell | day seven hundred & fifty-seven

tcp — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:05:49 +0000

Boxing day saw Grandma and Papa come for a visit to celebrate Christmas with us. They arrived in the early afternoon on Boxing Day, stayed for dinner and the night. Oliver loves his Grandma and Papa so much. He enjoys playing with Papa and when he is here, Oliver wants to do pretty much everything with him. And of course when he leaves, we have to field the questions: “where did Papa go?” and “Papa come back?” for a couple of days after the visit. It’s too cute!

Below are some photos we took of our time together along with some video of Oliver opening his Christmas presents.

Enjoy!
t.

and some video of Oliver with his Grand Parents:

oliver connell | day seven hundred & thirty

tcp — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:11:31 +0000

November 30th was fast approaching and Oliver was turning TWO! We put together a small birthday party and had our families over to celebrate. Everything was going great until Oliver starting opening his presents. We mistakenly gave Oliver our present first which was a train set that he really wanted. We knew he would like it, but had no idea that he would like it so much he wouldn’t want to open any more gifts!!! LOL!

So we ended up having to take a break while Oliver opened and set up the train set. Once that was done, we were able to resume with the present opening and Oliver got some wonderful presents from his family.

We had dinner, and then some cake and ice cream. Dana made a coffee cake which was decorated with a winter scene, complete with you guessed it…a train set! He just loves his trains right now.

I wonder what next years thing of choice will be?

Anyways, enjoy the pictures and video below!

Cheers!
t.

oliver connell | day 721-722

tcp — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 01:39:04 +0000

November was a really hectic month around the Connell household. Dana was in full production mode for two craft shows she had in late November and early December and I was still wrapping up a ton of editing from all the photo shoots I was doing. So to give Dana a little breathing room and some much needed alone time, Oliver and I took a trip to Grandma and Papa’s house in Victoria Harbour. It was a great time to get away for a night and Grandma and Papa couldn’t have been happier to have us.

When we arrived, Papa had a surprise for Oliver: a freshly made Race Car Bed! Oliver played in it off and on throughout the day and he had no trouble sleeping in it that evening. I bet if I could have strapped the bed to the roof of my car and took it home with me, Oliver would have been indebted to me forever. But we left it at Grandma and Papa’s house and it will be a special treat every time we go up there.

We spent two days playing, laughing and eating good food. Oliver and I can’t wait to do it again!

I’ve uploaded the complete set of photos to my Flickr site. You can view them by clicking here.

Enjoy the photos below!
t.

oliver connell | day six hundred & seventy-nine

tcp — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:32:43 +0000

Day six hundred and seventy nine (are you getting tired of all these numbers yet??? LOL!) saw Mum, Daddy and Oliver take a trip north to cousin Bobby’s house. It was Mum’s birthday as well as Bobby’s 50th birthday so we all gathered for an afternoon of fun, food and laughter. Oliver got to play outside in the wide open space that is Bobby and Michelle’s backyard. Oliver also got to sit on another tractor, on his first dirt bike as well as his first motorcycle. Mum is quietly hoping that he doesn’t enjoy those last two too much!

We finished the day off with seeing a beautiful sunset and then enjoyed some birthday cake and ice cream. Yum!

Please enjoy the pics below.

Cheers!
t.

and a fun video of Oliver and Mum playing with a ball