Oliver's First Birthday

We celebrated Oliver's 1st birthday on Saturday. He had a 1-up party (the mushroom from Super Mario Bros.) We had lots of green all through the basement at my parents' house. Oliver liked looking at the balloons. He was a very lucky little boy and had 56 people at his party. He enjoyed his mushroom cake. He did pretty good opening presents, he started getting a little frustrated when we kept taking them away to move to the next one. As soon as we let him play with the presents, he was as happy as can be.






The one year old with his cake!

Oliver got a stuffed teddy bear from his great-great grandma DeLong.


A little people airplane from Uncle Joe and Aunt Renee. It makes music and Oliver dances to it every time it plays. :)


Eric and I got Oliver this Cozy Coupe. Oliver seemed to love going for rides in it and had lots of fun with his cousins who pushed him all around the basement.


Oliver and his cousin Danielle- she is just over 3 weeks older than him- they are almost the exact same size. They had lots of fun playing together this weekend.


Oliver's 1 year picture! I took this at 11:30 pm when he was officially 1 year old! He has been lots of fun for the past year and I'm sure we have much more fun to come. Thanks to everyone who helped celebrate his birthday! Happy First Birthday Oliver!! We love you!

Updates

I went in to wake Oliver up to go get his 1 year pictures taken and this is how he was sleeping, feet stuck out of the crib.

Oliver building with blocks, he especially likes it when other people build a tower and he gets to knock it down.

This pictures is Oliver watching out the window and if you look closely, you can see a backhoe out the window. There were 2 of them loading a huge pile of leaves into a dumptruck. I had pointed it out to the little boy I watch who was watching out the other window. Oliver looked out the other window first and then wanted down. He then went to the front window and stood and watched the 2 backhoes loading all of the leaves. He watched for probably close to 10 minutes until they were finished. He then watched them all drive away down the street and when he couldn't see them anymore, he left the window to go play. :)

Laundry baskets always make a spectacular toy.

We have been enjoying the nice fall weather. Last weekend, we raked leaves and filled 37 bags with leaves! We also took Oliver in to get his 1 year pictures taken. He did pretty good for them. He wasn't quite himself so we didn't get super big smiles. Later that night, he ended up with a fever and so I think that is what the problem was. We've spent a few days with just Oliver at home to try to get him healthy again and he seems to be doing good- no fever since Monday night. I managed to make him some new towels while we've been home. He had outgrown the baby towels quite awhile ago, but we liked the hoods... so we bought some regular towels and hand towels and I sewed them together to make big hooded towels.

I can tell I have been home with him and not able to leave, I am actually excited to get out of the house to go get groceries. Have a great day!

Monster Walking

Here is a short video of Oliver walking. He is quickly becoming more stable- before we know it he'll be running!

Halloween!!

We had a very fun Halloween weekend! We carved our pumpkin Thursday night, Oliver enjoyed pulling the guts out of the pumpkin. Our pumpkin turned out pretty good- it was carved like Cookie Monster. Oliver dressed up as a monster for Halloween. Grandma & Grandpa Shook came to visit for the weekend. Eric and Grandpa did some work around the house while Grandma, Oliver, and I did some Christmas shopping. We came back and passed out some candy. Then we took Oliver trick-or-treating to a friend's house (the little boy in the Thomas costume- they were watching out the door for more trick-or-treaters). Oliver got a special treat of cheerios :)
Oliver is getting much better at walking and seems to be doing a lot of it. He is also cutting at least 3 teeth right now, he had 1 rough time last night, but once we got him calmed down, he went back down for the night.

Happy Halloween!!