Oliver age 6

Oh this little Oliver man. 

He is still our sweet snuggly guy. He wants to be touching us and snuggling us all the time. He will go up to random people at the park and snuggle up to them. He will hold an adults hand that is put in charge of him.  He and his sisters still snuggle all the time when they're on the couch. We love it!  He is so sweet and tender with Salem. She adores him!! They have such a special connection.

He has the best imagination!! He and Savannah just play with their toys for hours and hours and make the most imaginative things. His favorite toys are: mega legos, legos, dinosours, shark/ships. His favorite things are obviously, monsters, ghosts and zombies! He recently watched the new move Love and Monsters and now they like playing Love and Monsters, which is so funny and cute. He's still obsessed with Halloween.

He can be kind of a loner. He and Savannah play so well together. And they're learning to include Salem which is so cute. But he is ok playing on his own. Sometimes (often?) at a friends house or cousins house, he will go off on his own and do his own thing.  If we have friends over here, he again will go off and play on his own sometimes. When they're playing at the park, they will play games with friends now instead of playing on the equipment. He loves that and will stay engaged the entire time. 

His first love and passion is still technology. He is obsessed with video games! We don't let him play very often, but he talks about them all the time! He says his favorite sport is video games, and he wants to be a video game tester when he grows up... that might make me cringe and his dad proud, haha. If he could pick any activity to do, it would always be video games. I'm grateful that he has such a great imagination and can play all day and enjoy it. When video games aren't an option he doesn't ask and just plays so great with Savannah. We are trying to encourage and help that passion by introducing him to coding. He's picking it up really easily and really enjoys it. 

This kid is so smart. He basically taught himself to read. He's reading around a 2nd grade level. He loves to read! He's making huge progress with math and coding as well. He says his favorite subject in school is science. He begs to do his reading and math curriculum on the ipad (game based so totally up his alley, haha). 

If I'm cranky he has started to go out of his way to tell me he loves me and how wonderful I am. It's really cute and sweet. 

He learned to ride a bike this year, and we were pretty nervous but he nailed it. He did a great job and now he cruises around like a pro.  

His favorite foods are pizza and spaghetti. He doesn't like fruit - which I find to be so weird. He will eat bananas and apples and that is about it.  For veggies, he isn't a huge fan either. But he LOVES mushrooms! He begged me for months to make mushroom soup, so we finally did and he loved it so much!

He's such a typical little boy and is terrible at cleaning up, UNLESS he is earning video games, and then he is fast and efficient! He can never find anything. 

He's become our glass breaker. He "butt slammed" our glass storm door and shattered it. He was just in his undies and got cuts on his back and legs, but not too bad. We are so grateful he didn't get more hurt. Since then he's broken so many more things. Specifically cups. Some plates. A bowl in there maybe. Good thing Savannah has become our glass finder! :)

Oliver is our little goofball. He loves to make us laugh. He's always doing funny dances or singing funny songs to get us to laugh. If we start laughing, he keeps going to get us laughing harder. He loves to be the center of attention that way. He is oddly a  good break dancer! He has no formal training (haha) and does these moves and we have no idea where he learned them. We will have to put him in a class. 

One of our things we most want to remember about Oliver at this age, is just how sweet he is, especially with his sisters. I often find him and Salem sitting together snuggling. He loves to hold her hand. He and Savannah are best friends and watching them play is my favorite.

Oliver dude, we adore you!!