Olan is one!

SO hard for us to believe that this day is here already. How quickly a year goes, especially with this little time marker. We looked at him this morning, running around, dancing, pushing his trucks (with accompanying vroom sounds), and we simply cannot fathom that he was freshly born just 1 year ago. It boggles the mind.

Something neat happened this morning. Our little red rooster usually wakes us up at 7am but this morning we were all snuggled in a heap together in bed and slept in until exactly the time that Olan was born. Craziness. Then, as we woke up, he was sitting between us and we sang him his very first happy birthday. He was thrilled with it all and when we finished he bobbed his head a couple of times and smiled. Oh what a heart squeeze.

Here's some pictures of the birthday boy, some are form the past couple of days, some from this morning.

I don't know if I've mentioned it, but Olan is all about pointing right now. His favourite things to point at are trees and buses (which can get kind of hairy if you're in a forest or a downtown street at rush hour). You have to say what he's pointing at and then you get a big smile. We've tried suddenly exclaiming "tree!" when there isn't one around and he looks around and around and gets all perplexed. So cute.

"Tree!"


"Rock!"


The scarf got me!


Checking out the falls with Grandpa


A birthday morning wrestle with Dad


Off to school for the birthday boy