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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Happy 4th Birthday Oliver!

I can't believe Oliver is four years old already. These last four years have been amazing! At his four year old well check, we found Oliver is 32 lbs. (5-10 percentile) , and 40 in. tall (50th percentile). He received four shots which he didn't like very much, but he was so brave and only cried for a minute.

Oliver is one of the most friendly kids I know, he is so outgoing and loves talking to people; I love this quality about him and I hope he never changes. He LOVES his baby brother and is constantly giving him loves and cooing with him. Transportation vehicles are his ongoing obsession: Planes, trains, garbage trucks, cars, trucks, construction vehicles...you name it, he likes it! Fantasy play is still his game of choice. Lately, mail carrier, airline pilot and FedEx Delivery driver are his favorite things to play. He also enjoys building with blocks, painting, coloring with chalk, playing with play-doh, and pretty much anything else Daddy wants to do. Oliver LOVES playing with his Daddy and relishes every opportunity to do so. He is also very silly and loves making silly faces and doing things to make us laugh!

Oliver has enjoyed preschool. He has made some new friends and the songs they sing are his favorite. He is picking up the Spanish language much more quickly than I thought he would and he loves to teach Miles new words. We are working our way through a Preschool workbook at home and Oliver is soooo smart! He is writing most of the letters very well, and is eager to learn what he doesn't already know. "How is _________ spelled" is one of his most common questions lately.

We pretty much love every bit of this little guy and I couldn't be more proud or happy to be his Mommy!

Here are pictures from his birthday:

For starters, we had HUGE face sized cinnamon rolls from Bread Winners that were SO yummy!

see a video of candle on the huge cinnamon roll

What was I thinking? We don't even have enough storage for all the stuff he had before, now there is even more and Christmas is just around the corner. :)

Baby brother got him the Double dump truck he has been wanting

Mommy & cousin Robynn had the same idea, now he has two! Perfect for a boy who loves playing FedEx!

I love his little tongue sticking out!

video of Oliver trying out his blower for the first time

LOVE the look on his face here, it must have been wrapped really good!

Helping Daddy build his art easel

Clayton is soooo patient with him

one of his favorite gifts!

Oliver was SPOILED, check out that loot! :) Happy Fourth Birthday Oliver!

All Oliver's presents

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Oliver's first friend party

This year we decided to have Oliver's first friend birthday party. Oliver and I thought it might be fun to have it at ASI Gymnastics, where he has taken gymnastics for the last year. We have been preparing excitedly for the last month. Oliver had a last minute theme change from trains to planes, which was very difficult considering there are no plane theme party ware, but it all worked out in the end. We had a small turnout for the party considering 10 children RSVP'd yes, but it may have been even better for Oliver that way. It was so much fun for him to be at a place he was comfortable and yet have all the things he normally works on be unstructured...he loved it! He had a great time and has talked about it every day for the past week. The party coordinators Dillon and Rob couldn't have been more fun! Cousin Robynn even came and helped with holding Miles for me until he just couldn't handle the loud music anymore. Poor baby! He was a great sport though!

Coach Dillon, Oliver, Aurora, Ace, Jordan and Malachy

Silly faces

Oliver's favorite activity...JUMPING!

circle and game time

Oliver awaiting his gymnastics medal

The block pit

Aurora was the only one that would swing -- she also goes to ASI

Oliver had a lot of fun making block towers with Daddy and Ace, but since Daddy was the photographer we didn't get any pictures of that

Here we are in the party room. Since Oliver LOVES turquoise, we went with turquoise table ware.

When I first saw the cake, all I could say was "oh my goodness, that is ONE turquoise cake!". I asked the bakery to make it look like a sky with some clouds and to make the sky turquoise. Not quite what I had in mind, but all that matters is Oliver LOVED it! :)

they started out singing Jingle Bells instead of Happy Birthday...all the kids thought that was funny!

Oliver got the plane, American Airlines, his favorite!

Yumm, airplane cake!

look at that stained mouth!

opening his presents

getting some Cousin Robynn loves

Oliver & Jordan, his mom Heather and I went to UTD together.

Oliver & Malachy, they go to Spanish Schoolhouse together

Aurora, Oliver & Malachy, Spanish Scoolhouse buddies

Aurora and Oliver

Oliver and his cousin Ace

I think the enormous plane balloon was his favorite thing at the party!

After the party, Aunt Tricia, Uncle Steven and Ace joined us at Oliver's favorite park for some play time before dinner. Then they joined us at Covino's, Oliver's favorite Italian restaurant.