The BIG 6

 I can't believe our baby turned six last Friday!  It amazes me how time passes, he's getting so big, so crazy.  In an attempt to distract him from the fact that we don't know anyone here yet and we have no family around, Zack and I tried to make this birthday as fun packed as we could for Oliver.  He really had his heart set on a typical "kid" birthday party with games and prizes and goody bags, kids, you know what kids think is awesome at this age.  But unfortunately we moved just before birthday time, so that made it a little difficult.

 So we tried to make it as fun as possible with just the 5 of us.  I think it ended up better than he expected. (Which isn't really saying much because he was very doom and gloom the days leading up to his birthday.  ha, ha)  He asked for a star cake.  So we made this one, Oliver decorated it himself, I thought that was cute.

 As a surprise we took him bowling which was a lot of fun, he had only been once before on a little kids bowling alley.  Thank you whoever invented bumpers for bowling, it saves us parents a lot of sad tears when kids would otherwise be getting gutter balls.

Little Miss Ruby didn't get into the actual bowling too much but she did love to play with all the balls on the rack.  And the camera.

August pretty much chilled in the stroller the whole time.  He recently figured out he can eat his own toes which give him great pleasure, except when he bites them with his new teeth!

What a cute little bowler!

Oliver liked all his gifts he received.  We tried to spice it up by have a treasure hunt to find some of his gifts. He thought that was pretty fun.  He loves a good treasure hunt, espeically when this time there actually was a treasure at the end.  I think his Batman Legos from Uncle Greg and Aunt Kris Tina were the biggest hit!  Thanks guys.  

All in all it was a pretty fun day.  

Here are some things that I think are great about Oliver this past year:

He loves to learn.  Loves it.  He loved Kindergarten and excelled at everything.  He is so excited to learn to read and do math.  I'm glad that he has a love of learning.

Oliver has a tender heart.  Sometimes this is good and sometimes bad, but I think it draws people to him.  He feels things very deeply.  Most the time he's either pure joy or doom and despair.  We are trying to help him find the middle ground.  He doesn't like to be in the spotlight.

He loves holidays, decorations, action figures, legos, sports, his family and of course his panda bear.

It's amazing to see how much he has changed in the last year, it will be fun to see what this next year brings.

We sure do love him and glad he is part of our family.