Olivers Updates

Mommy threw a baby shower for her…she dismantled the house and had a tea party. How fun is that?

Auntie Teresa & Auntie Katie

And it’s all down hill from here!

Dear Oliver,

99% of the time you are one amazing, sweet, loving little boy! You make me laugh with your silly giggle when you find something is funny. You know that O is for Oliver and always point it out when you see it. You can put a puzzle together in no time. You can be super outgoing or really shy, just depends on your mood. You tell me that you love me and always give kisses at night, even to your baby sister. You are truly the best big brother ever! You are very affectionate towards your sister. You tell her stories, “Ruby, one day…”. She loves to watch you being silly and is always captivated by you. You dance and sing like no one is watching, if only we could all do that! You share, sometimes you don’t like to do it, but in the end you always do. You love talking on the phone and when you do you point out everything that is going on and expect the other person to see it as well. You know your whole name, Oliver Robert Mattson, and that is how you introduce yourself to people. You can point out a spider web anywhere in the house. You like to say “I know” when mommy or daddy tell you something. You use the word “darn it” in the right context. You tell me all the time “you’re driving me crazy!”. You tell on me when I do something I’m not supposed to do. Sometimes I hurt your feelings and you are smart enough to tell me that I did just that (mind you it’s normally when I won’t give you a cupcake). You are always asking “why” because you are just so curious. When you say “girl”, you pronounce it “gwirl”, its adorable!

Dear Ruby,

You are 5 months and 2 days old, you are growing fast almost too fast! Sometimes I wish I could push a pause button to keep you and your brother the same. You have held your head up for some time now. You can roll over and then roll back again. You smile all the time. You are always looking around and observing the world. You droll like mad! You are a chatter box, last night you kept us up for an hour just talking and playing, daddy and I were both laughing at you. You went to Miss Julia’s today and did awesome. You love to give open mouth kisses and chew on my face. You love hair, so much that I’m thinking of cutting mine off. You have quiet the bald spot on the back of your head. You respond to me saying your name. You love to pet Blu and watch her. You put everything in your mouth. You are the best little sister to Oliver, the look in your eyes says “I love you!”.

To both of you – You will never understand how much your daddy and I love you. I hope as you grow, you will always know we love and support you in everything that you do.

On our last day we needed something to do after shopping for everyone so we decided to check out the aquarium in Long Beach, I’m glad we did too because it was super cool!

They have a shark exhibit and you can actually touch the sharks and rays…mommy helped me, we had a good time trying to reach them

Horseshoe Crabs

This guy felt like sandpaper

These were the big boys

This guy, he was scary, I ran away when he came to the window because he could eat me quick!

Hiding in a giant shell…mommy and daddy will never find me in here

It’s me, Oliver Robert Mattson

We had a good time at the aquarium even though Ruby wasn’t feeling so hot. Afterwards we went to Bubba Gump Shrimp Co and I ate a ton of shrimp with daddy. I have a feeling that the shrimp didn’t play well in my tummy but it was so good I had to eat it.

Once we were done with our early dinner daddy dropped us off at the airport. Our flight was hectic…here is the story about our evening that mommy posted on her facebook page.

As many of you already know, Ruby is sick, finally had a fever today, lost her little crying voice, tries to scream each time she coughs, blows snot bubbles from mass congestion and is pretty much hating life today – I was supposed to fly home with Dave but his work trip was extended so he had to stay, go to check in for my flight and the lady gives me an awful look then proceeds to tell me she’s …going to try to put me on stand by because my flight is 2 hours late ( I got an RX standby, which is only for emergencies because R was sick), was put on an early flight, all was going swimmingly until Oliver passed out. 2 sleeping kids and a heavy backpack to get of the plane, what’s a single mom to do! Strapped on kid to me, carried the other on one hip and threw the bag over the other shoulder. Get down to were my savoir Eric is waiting to help me to my car and we finally arrive…only 40 minutes from home…oh wait, Ruby needs to eat and she has a poopy diaper, ok, I can do this…changing diaper…oh S*#%!, Oliver just threw up all over himself and his car seat…I need a vacation!

It was a crummy end to a great vacation, but in the end, all mommy did was laugh and push through. She carried me up to my bedroom once we got home, grabbed a giant bowl and slept next to Ruby and I the whole night.

Today I had a special surprise…we met Carter & Camden at the park. I was so happy to see my best buddies!

Auntie Renee got us all matching shirts, aren’t we cute!

Hey look, California Adventure has a moon base too! That is so cool!

First ride of the day, when I came off the ride some little girl ran right into me, we collided and I fell…what a way to start off the day. Thankfully mommy had some cool Cars band aids to patch me up!

Auntie Renee’s uncle Steve, he’s a super cool dude and we really like him.

Look, my and Lightening McQueen

Mayter is on of my favorites too!

Taking a ride with Uncle Jeff, thanks for letting me skip the monster line and take cuts with you, I love this ride!

Watch out Auntie Renee, Carter & Steve – we’re gonna crash into you!

Cater being silly!

Daddy’s turn…

Bumper Cars, they were a little slow but we still had a great time!

Holy cow, look who I got to meet, BUZZ!!!

Outside of Radiator Springs, the Grand Canyon sure is nice!

Now time for Disneyland

We eventually lost Uncle Jeff, Auntie Renee, Cater and Cam but that was ok because I was SO tired. I finally passed out in Ruby’s car seat again with my Mickey ears pulled all the way over my head.

Today was an adventure for sure, when we woke up mommy and daddy decided that we should take Ruby to the hospital…she had a horrible croup cough and we didn’t want to be spending all night in the hospital. We went to CHOC children’s hospital in Santa Anna…mommy now knows that we have it pretty good up in the Seattle area. This hospital was small and packed full of sick people, the ER was little be desired, but they did fix up my sister, so that was great. While mommy was hanging out she asked for some recommendations to take me to play…someone suggested the Discovery Center, guess who they had…

Bob the Builder!

I got to play on some diggers

I loved pushing the buttons

I also got to build a cool puzzle…

I did the whole thing all by myself, I always amaze my mommy!

Holy cow, it’s the real Bob!

If I wave my magic wand I can open this clam shell…abracadabra!

Look at the size of the t-rex claw, YIKES!

We went to go see the Medieval Times Show, it was so cool! We even got to eat with our fingers, fun! The best part was we got half off admission because we were supposed to sit in the nose bleed section, luckily someone didn’t show so we were able to have an awesome seat.

Mommy & daddy took me to the happiest place on earth…Disney Land and California Adventure.

First we started off with a Minnie & friends breakfast…I met the coolest people! The fairy Godmother was up first.

Even Ruby loved her!

Ekk, it’s Captain Hook! No way am I going near you dude!

Tickling Pooh

Hehe, those are my tickly ribs!

Who doesn’t love Eyore!

My new gwirl Minnie, I love her!

Ruby had funny playing with her too!

My first ride in Tomorrow Land, a cool rocket ship.

Blast off!

I am officially certified to drive, watch out folks! I drove like a maniac in Autopia.

My sister couldn’t do much but she really loved checking out all the sites.

Princess castles, can’t wait to check it out.

Watch out folks, I have places to go!

You want me to open this door, are you nuts? Yikes, that is a loud zapping noise

Checking out Toon Town, I loved this place, so much to climb on and see

Beep, beep!

Pluto is a big boy, I barely fit in his bed

What?!?

Mickey!!!

The babies love Mickey’s nose…and mommy wonders how she got a virus…every baby chews on his nose, GROSS!

Come here Mickey, let me give you a big kiss!

Hi Mommy! Hanging in Daffy Duck’s boat with daddy, I didn’t want to come out.

Mommy and I took a ride on Dumbo, we flew very high, it was so cool!

I was sad to get off.

Hanging with my daddy while waiting for fireworks, I love my daddy!

Rubes had enough, she finally passed out! There was a large crowd of people and the fireworks were amazing, we even got to see Tinker Bell fly over the castle.

My first day at Disney Land was super fun! Some of the other highlights:

We went on Pirates of the Caribbean, mommy thought I was going to be scared but I loved it!I even liked the waterfall part of it, it was dark but thrilling!

I ate a Churro because mommy’s co-worker said we had to try them…I ate the whole thing!

Mommy and I hiked

I busted a move to Michael Jackson in the House of Tomorrow

We rode the steam train around the park and rested out feet.

I shot aliens to save the planet form the Evil Zerg, I was terrified when I went with mommy. Then I went with daddy and it took forever because all I wanted to do was watch Buzz Light Year.

Last night was the first night that mommy was all by herself with Ruby and I. Here is how the evening went…we stopped at KFC for some tasty chicken and drove home to eat it. When we got home we let Blu out and she went potty, then she got to the bottom of the steps and whimpered. We checked her out and she seemed to be find so we proceeded to go upstairs. We were half way up when she barfed all over the floor. I stood there grossed out, no way was I going to walk on the landing! Of course, mommy had her hands full and kept telling me to move so I eventually did. Mommy went to grab the Resolve Stain Remover and sprayed it on there, as she did she said “Stupid dog!”, I then decided to repeat her. Mommy then told me that it wasn’t a nice thing to say because Blu isn’t really stupid she just had a sick tummy. Bad mommy for not being nice!

After cleaning up the mess we decided to sit down and have dinner. Ruby was fine up to that moment then she started screaming (this is normal), so mommy got to eat with Rubes in her lap. It was an extra special night because mommy let me eat dinner and watch a cartoon, how spoiled am I!?! Our dinner was yummy and I ate everything on my plate so mommy made me a popcorn treat, that was good too!

At 8:30pm mommy thought it would be best to go upstairs and chill out, so we did just that! I got to watch another show while mommy put Ruby to sleep. Once Ruby passed out I hung out in mommy’s room until 9:30 and then I accidently woke up Ruby, oops! So mommy took us into my room, mommy laid down with Ruby on the air mattress and I laid in my bed. She read us a book about camping while I played with my “mail truck”. She was obviously loosing her mind by then because she kept telling me to be quiet, I’m 3 years old, what does she expect! I was really getting sick of her telling me that so I told her to go to her own room. She said ok, but I didn’t really want her to go, I just wanted her to be quiet! We agreed it was time to turn off the light so I turned it out and then it was super dark in my room. Mommy sleeping on her own mattress wasn’t cutting it for me so I asked for her and Ruby to come join me. So here we were at 10:30pm, mommy in the middle with me snuggling up behind her and Ruby nursing…mommy wanted to crawl out of her skin! Guess what, I FINALLY passed out!

Mommy woke up at 11 to go to the other mattress because she had Ruby with her, once her head hit the mattress she was so tired all she wanted to do was sleep…but that isn’t what Blu had in mind! Blu started barking up a storm so mommy had to get up, walk down stairs, let Blu out in the freezing cold dark and then put her back to bed. By the time mommy got back up to my room she was not happy, thankfully Blu was quiet after that or mommy might have lost it!

Finally, time for mommy to sleep…1am, I woke up and told mommy I needed blankets, so she obliged and put the blankets on me, told me to go back to sleep and put her hand on me so I knew she was there. I was back to sleep in no time, snoring away.

3am rolled around and I thought I’d wake up again, so I did. I said, “Mommy, my tummy hurts” She said, “I’m sorry baby, are you hungry maybe?” I said, “Yes, I need some jam in my tummy” She said, “ok baby, when we wake up we can have some, try to go back to sleep, mommy is right here” I said, “ok”. Once again, I was sleeping in no tome.

5am came, once again I found myself awake. “Mommy, can I please come sleep with you?” Mommy said YES! I jumped on that, got up, mommy picked me up so I wouldn’t squish Ruby and I snuggled up with her. Once again, mommy found herself with my snuggling up behind her and Ruby nursing. 10 minutes after cuddling up with her, I was out!

7:14, mommy opened her eyes, and I kid you not, Blu started barking! That dog! So mommy snuck out of bed leaving both Ruby and me behind to go let the dog out again. At 7:18 daddy called to check in and see how it went, mommy wasn’t so happy so all she said was “what?!?”…daddy said I’ll call you back and hung up the phone.

Poor mommy, what a night…she has 2 more nights without daddy to help,  so lets hope we sleep better tonight.

Lesson learned by mommy (by mommy): While I was frustrated, tired and ready to kill the dog, I sat and thought, this is my life, its pretty good, shut up and laugh at it!  So I did just that, laughed at myself and shut my eyes. But I will say, I  thank my lucky stars that I have such a good husband that is always there to help out with the kids.

We went to a surprise dinner at the Mill Creek Pub & Grill for auntie Stacey… she was shocked to see all of us!

I was sitting in a high chair…I will tell you, I NEVER sit in a high chair…but I have to be like Tinley!

Erin & Michelle, the 2 ladies responsible for the party…way to go ladies, auntie Stacey sure appreciated it!

Surprise!!!

Auntie Stacey…”what is this?”

Grandpa Curt & Baby Taylor

Love those glasses Auntie Stacey!

Those things won’t blow out!

Owen is my new buddy!

The whole group…notice I have a cupcake in my hand…must have been my 3rd one, not to mention the ones that I found left over on the tables…

No pictures mommy!

Hey, I told you no photos!

Mommy!

Hot chocolate with my bear hat on that Auntie Stacey got me, I love it!

Cool whip, heck yea!

My thought for the day…I love my life!