Oliver is one! by: mommy

I don't even know where to begin...You. Are. One!  You have come a long way since the day you were born and the first week of your life but you are a survivor.  Every day you bring us so much joy and our life would not be the same without you.  Your sister loves you fiercely.  She doesn't always do the best job showing it but she loves you.  She loves to play with you.  She loves to watch you.  She loves to take care of you.  And most of all she loves to love on you.  Your big brother is your protector.  He would never let anything happen to you.  He watches everything you do to make sure you are safe.  He doesn't want to see you hurt.  Your daddy loves to make you laugh.  He loves your hugs when he walks in the door.  He loves to cuddle with you on the couch and loves to see you splash around in the bath tub.  I love watching you grow.  Because I get the privilege of being with you every day to see what you learn, to see you see things for the first time, to see you touch things for the first time, to see you learn to walk and talk.  We all love you more than you will ever know.  And most certainly more than we could ever show you.

This first year of your life you have grown so big.  You weigh 21 pounds and have grown to 31 inches.  You have mastered playing, sitting, crawling, eating, waving and riding on ride on toys every where in our house.  You love to play with balls.  If someone joins in, it makes it more fun but you will chase a ball anywhere.  You love to crawl super fast wherever you go.  The faster the better.  You love to eat raspberries and blueberries.  You love to wave.  I think you just like to see people smile at you but then most of the time you get shy and turn away.  Your most favorite toy continues to be anything and everything you can ride on.  You still don't sleep through the night.  You wake up two times most nights.  Its ok.  I know we will all sleep through the night someday.  You can say 'momma' and 'da'.  Rice tries to get you to say his name but that will probably take some time.  You love your pacifier and you have recently started to drink whole milk. 

My wish for you is you keep smiling.  You smile because things make you happy.  You smile because you have no worries.  You smile because you are loved.  Keep smiling little guy.  And HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY!

Halloween

First up...Zoo Boo.

 Next up...Hady had some friends over to celebrate a little early.

 Eating dirt pudding...YUM!

 Trying on different costumes.

 Next up...Halloween parties at school.

 Hady got wrapped up like a mummy.

 I had my very own IU cheerleader cheering me on.

 We made some crafts and ate some yummy cookies.

 And finally trick or treating...BRRRRR.  It was cold.

 We ran to keep warm.

Zoo Boo.

We might have skipped out of the end of day at school and drove to Indy for the last weekend of Zoo Boo.  It was Oliver's first trip to the zoo and he loved the animals.  Of course, he probably liked all the eating as mommy pushed him around in the stroller too but he did like the animals.  Hady liked getting the candy and I liked having a little extra fun during the school week.

He was the cutest monkey at the zoo.

 A little game.

Some playground fun.

 I loved the birds.

 Hady met Elsa.

 

Fall is here

Fall is definitely here which means leaves, leaves and more leaves at our house.  Daddy isn't too fond of all the leaves.  We don't mind them at all.  But we do get to have a little more fun with them than daddy does.

Oh and pumpkins are always a fun part of everything fall.

And then we spend a lot of time enjoying the nice weather before the cold and snow set in.

I love my little brother and his love of anything that bounces is so fun for me.