Birthday Fun!

It's almost hard to believe, but Buttercup turned 1 on Saturday! She is such a big girl. We celebrated with a small party at home (just the 4 of us, plus Aunt Anna). She didn't like her birthday hat or cake, but she liked her gifts and especially liked the special version of Happy Birthday that Oliver sang to her (sadly, I didn't get it on video!).

Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom of this post to see the video of Buttercup and her birthday cake.


Oliver helped me decorate the cupcakes.

































































































































Earlier in the week, Buttercup and Oliver received their birthday gifts from Grandma and Grandpa. Both kids were really excited to get their presents! They also had fun playing with the big box the gifts came in. :-)

Christmas crafts and other stuff

We recently had our first taste of fall weather! It's only October, but the cooler weather put me in the holiday spirit, so Oliver and I got started on making Christmas ornaments. We had so much fun! Without a doubt, his favorite part was using glitter glue. :-)


The artist at work















Look at that concentration!















Finished product. Beautiful!















Last weekend, we went to the local garden store to attempt taking a fall picture of the kiddos. It obviously didn't work out as we planned.












































After that, we drove to the creek to look at the "big water". Dennis and Oliver took turns trying to dip each other in the water, then we walked and ran down to the playground to play before heading home.

































































Other fun stuff!

Oliver as "Dr. Baker", addressing the needs of his patient, Elephant.
















Oliver LOVES his new cowboy boots.



















Don't all firefighters climb trees?

















Cute video of the Toot playing with me in the kitchen.

Big girl!

October is upon us, which means that we will soon be celebrating two very important birthdays in our house! Buttercup is becoming such a big girl right before our eyes. She waves "hi" and "bye", and says "uh-oh" (not always appropriately, but she's working on it!). She seems to verbalize more and more every day. My favorite sounds, though, are the ones she makes when she's not really trying to communicate with us. It's as though she's trying to add to the conversation, but not really trying to tell us something important. Here is a video of her making some of those sounds during our dinner tonight. Enjoy!