Oliver is 3!

On Monday Ollie turned 3.  I can't believe my little boy is a big 3 year old!  For breakfast he got cinnamon rolls and then we headed up to Target to exchange some birthday gifts that he got duplicates of so he could get Percy and James for his new train set.  Then we headed to his cousin, Jake's, to eat lunch and got to the pool.  We only got to be at the pool for about an hour before we had to leave because nasty weather was coming.  We hung out at Jake's a little longer and then headed home to make dinner.  After we ate he got to open his gifts from us....  

no, he does not have pants on :)

here is his "cheese" face

he was so excited to have a big Buzz!

He is so sweet and such a fun kid.  He loves these new movies we got by Leap Frog.  Since watching them he now knows all his letters and their sounds, and numbers 1-10.  He is really excited about learning them and talks about them a lot!  It is so fun to see him learning but I would love it if he would stay this age forever ;)  He is potty trained for the most part (still wears diapers for nap and bedtime... I need to get a plastic liner for his mattress). It took a couple weeks of working at it but now he goes on his own and does great!  He still likes to wear diapers though!?  Next week we are going to work on gettind rid of the paci, not looking forward to it!  He has been sleeping up in his big boy bed in the loft for a couple months now.  At first he would come out at night and would use the bathroom excuse, but now he does a good job of staying in his room even though it takes him forever to fall asleep some nights.  I have been trying to wake him up earlier from his naps in hopes that it would help him fall asleep sooner at night.  At his dr. appointment yesterday he weighed 34.3 lb and was 39 in tall.  Between the 75 and 90 percentile for both.  He has been saying some funny things lately and I really need to start writing them down!  Here are some things Ollie likes to do:
play cars
play-doh
paint
watch movies
play outside
run "turtles" (hurdles)
play with trains
line things up (see pictures below)

he lined all his cars up

and again...

this pic was at the beginning of summer- our garden is now full and the kids got a new pool from grandma for their birthdays.  it has a slide and they love it!

his new Cars laptop

lined dad's shoes up on the table

Both kids are at ages where it is really hard for me to get good pictures of them smiling but we take what we get :)  We did get family pictures and individuals of the kids but we can't get digital copies of them to put on here :(  We are so thankful for our Ollie Boy and we love him so much!