Olivers Updates

Last friday I said good bye to some of my favorite people that I love dearly…Ms. Julia & Grandma. I have been going to Ms. Julia since I was a bit over 1 years old. She has taught me so many things and helped raise me to be the sweet, loving kid I am today.

Ms. Julia, I will miss you so much but will certainly come back to visit! My sister and I both love you!

Today Ruby and I stared at our new school. Ruby was less than thrilled (she was tired!) but I was super excited…I was asking to go all weekend! I’m even more excited because my best buddy Jack will be there with me. We are going to learn so much together and I can’t wait!

Ruby had a hard time with mommy leaving at first, so mommy came back to sit with her for awhile. When Ruby was looking mommy left and when she came back to check 5 minutes later, Ruby was just fine… Me, I didn’t care that mommy and daddy had to go. I was so excited going through all the new toys and having Jack there to play! It is going to be a good day today!

Ruby and her new doll

Taylor is clapping!

My sister is such a fashionista…

Where is Taylor?!?

There she is!

9 months!

Cousins. Are they adorable or what?

Ruby, get back there! Where are you going?!?

Taylor, those don’t go in my ears!

I love you!

Good thing I’m used to this!

It’s ok baby Taylor!

Good gravy, these girls are out of control!

God grant me the strength to deal with these 2!

I give up!

How could you not love this face

Breakdown time…we are done!

“mom, seriously!!!!”

WOW, all I can say is WOW! Auntie Renee, you out did yourself…I’m going to start saving my pennies so I can buy you a bakery! Seriously, the cutest cake EVER!

This woman is AMAZING!!!

Mommy had, pulled pork, chicken,  fruit salad, mac n cheese, deviled eggs and auntie Renee brought her famous artichoke dip, yummy!

Ruby was having fun running from Kishore (2 weeks apart)

Kishore found the hockey stick…

Trying to get 2, 1 year olds to sit still, hard!

Miss Taylor doing the army crawl, go Taylor!

Time for cake…trying out the frosting first

“get this thing off of me!”

Not sure what to do with everyone singing to her

Showing Ruby how to blow out the candle

The calm before the storm

Holy cow, she is a hot mess!

Not only is the cake amazing on the outside, it is also amazing on the inside…Oh auntie Renee, what are we going to do with you!

Candy time, it finally fell out on the last pull!

Jack helping Ruby open the gift he brought

Of course, I get to help too!

So many fantastic gifts…and the most special of all…Ruby’s great, great, great grandmother’s Ruby ring. Can’t wait until she is old enough to wear it for very special occasions.

Thank you everyone for coming to my baby sister’s birthday party. You are all so special to us and we love each and every one of you!

The most amazing first birthday cake ever, not only does it look awesome, but it tastes like heaven! Thanks Auntie Renee for making it!!!

Ruby was very dainty!

Mommy had to pull of a chunk for her…

She loved it!

My giant m&m cookie that I got for smiling in pictures…it was so giant I only ate a few bites and I was done!

We took family pictures a few weeks ago but mommy was holding off on putting them up so you had to come to the house and see them.

I love my sister!

My sister and I have the best smiles ever!

My trick…climb up daddy’s legs and flip over. I love doing this!

Today my baby sister turns 1…what a year it has been!

She loves:

Me (of course!), watching Blu, eating everything (even dirt occasionally), snuggles with mommy, backpack rides with daddy, feeding Blu at dinner time

Her accomplishments:

Sitting at 6 months, crawling by 9 months, walking at 11 months. She drinks from a sippy cup, she feeds herself (with her hands)

She is one smiley little girl and I just can’t image life without her. I look forward to the next year Ruby when I can teach you a whole lot of new things. I love you so much! – Oliver

In other news…

I went to see Dr. Mosca today and I get to wear my “special shoes” for at least another 8 months. I’m waiting for my bones to grow in my foot so that I can have a tendon transfer surgery that will make it so I don’t want on the side of my foot. My bones are growing really slow! The good news, besides walking on the side of my foot, my foot looks REALLY good! …now lets get these bones growing so I can get this over with…more milk please!