My Baby Oliver Turns 1!

This year has flown by! I can't believe Oliver is one already. He's a toddler, copying William and Pippa, running around everywhere, having mini tantrums, trying to jump on the bed, barking when he sees a dog, pointing out water bottles and saying 'water'. He's going to be starting Kindergarten before we know it! I love these kids.

Oliver's birthday was fun. I made him the biggest chocolate cake I've ever made and all the kids loved it. He also had his one year check up and is looking great! He's a big boy at 26 lb; certainly not a little baby anymore.

My Baby Pippa Turns 4!

Pippa had a wonderful birthday! All she expected was presents and a cake, and she got both. She also got balloons, ice cream and doughnuts. She wanted a pink cake with her name written in white, so she got a red velvet cake. Stupid amounts of food coloring were involved. This last week she also had her annual check up, and is looking healthy and happy at 43lbs! She had 3 shots and barely flinched. The nurse turned to me and said something along the lines of "OMG, she was so good. Kids never react like that!" That's my Pippa! Good news is (with the exception of annual flu shots), she's up-to-date with shots until her 10th birthday!

Tulips!

This last weekend we decided to make the 3 hour drive to Woodburn, Oregon to go see the annual Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival. It was fabulous, sunny and totally worth the drive, even with 3 small kids! We had a lot of fun there, then we went to the factory stores and bought Oliver his first pair of real shoes. He has super fat feet, but they had the 5XW and they fit him great! Then it was off to Chipotle before the rainy drive home. All 3 of the kids just ran around like crazy and enjoyed being outside among the tulips and the hazelnut groves! Here are some photos from our day...

A Treat!

A couple of months ago I decided it would be fun for the kids to have a scrapbook each with photos from every month of their lives, plus pictures from birthdays and holidays and other special events. I've begun by pulling out photos from each month, and just for fun I have put them together to show a year per page. It's quite fun for me to see how much they have changed! I've posted these pictures for you to see. Enjoy!

PIPPA YEAR 1

PIPPA YEAR 2

PIPPA YEAR 3

PIPPA YEAR 4

WILLIAM YEAR 1

WILLIAM YEAR 2

WILLIAM YEAR 3

OLIVER YEAR 1

Walking Machine!

Oliver has been practicing his running a lot. This has resulted in some very fast walking rather than running. Here he is...


March 25, 2010

I'll be updating soon with pictures of the other kids!

Pippa's First Rollerskate Jam

The only thing Pippa has been able to talk about for the last month was how she wanted roller skates for her birthday. Rollerskates this, rollerskates that. So before I spent a ton of money on rollerskates, I figured it would make sense to put her on a pair first to see if she actually likes it, or if she just saw it on TV and thought it looked cool and then once she got them she would never use them again (I'm guilty of doing that on more than one occasion. So last week Aunt Silly and I took Pippa to the local roller rink to toss on a couple of skates and see how she would do.



She hasn't mentioned roller skates since.

Another Toddler?

Oh boy, it looks like we have another toddler on our hands! Oliver's no longer a baby, but a small toddler. He is becoming a really good walker, every day able to get further without falling or tripping on something. He is very steady, controlled and deliberate, always choosing to walk between pieces of furniture rather than crawling. He just turned 10 months old, so it's going in the baby book as walking at 10 months!

The best picture I have of the 3 kids together. We're working on it...

We did go for a pretty long walk around our neighborhood the other day. The weather was great and we took the long way to a new park next to the school. This new park is made especially for the preschool set and it's great! On our way we saw lots of fun things, but the favorite of both Pippa and especially William were the wind chimes in somebody's yard. He was fascinated by them and the noise they made! "What's that noise?"

The Wind Chimes

The house with the carved bears. I love the carved bears!

The Preschool-Sized Park

Pippa and myself playing outside the house on a sunny afternoon.

Pippa taking a photo of her shadow.