Although Oliver's birthday isn't until Wednesday, we celebrated it this afternoon. Our kids' four grandparents and one Great Gram came to celebrate his first year of life. Paul's family arrived around 2:30pm and the kids enjoyed doing puzzles with Gram, hearing one of Pop Pop's many original stories, and being read to by each of them. As you can see from the photo below, Pop Pop and Oliver also took an afternoon nap. My parents arrived around 4:30pm and soon after we sat down to have dinner. I made lasagna, beef noodle bake, a fresh fruit salad, green beans, and garlic bread for dinner. After that we let Oliver have his birthday cake. Ian didn't have any cake until he was almost 3 years old so I have no "cake smash" photos of him. Nadia dug into the cake more than Oliver did. I could have left his shirt on as he didn't get very messy. I'm going to make brownies and serve them on his actual birthday and see if he digs into that a bit more vigorously. Then the rest of us had dessert. I made banana bread and Aunt Millie made cupcakes, chocolate cake with peanut butter icing, and cookies.
After dessert, it was time for Oliver to open his three presents. As expected he was too young to understand what to do with wrapping paper so his brother and sister unwrapped his gifts. He got a new swing for our swing set from my parents, a new toy (that Ian has really been enjoying) from Great Gram, and some new clothes from Paul's parents. Oliver was most interested in eating the envelopes, cards, and wrapping paper. We are very thankful for our little Oliver!
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