{"id":9735,"date":"2015-08-14T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9735"},"modified":"2016-09-07T11:38:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:38:02","slug":"oliver-is-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=9735","title":{"rendered":"Oliver is 6!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSC_0229\"<\/a>\"DSC_0219\"<\/a>\"DSC_0228\"<\/a>Happy, happy birthday to my dear sweet peach of a boy, Oliver. Six is going to be your year, I can feel it. You are on the verge of so many things!<\/p>\n

Over the past year, Oliver has matured in a way that I didn’t anticipate. He is compassionate, stubborn, determined, sensitive, and athletic. He is a complicated kid, moody and tender all wrapped into one. This past year, he has become more physically confident and able, learning to ride a two-wheeler, climb to the top of the swing set at the playground, do a tuck roll in circus class (but more so at home), and is on the verge of reading independently. Oliver is currently obsessed with Star Wars Legos, which he plays with for hours on end (usually with Emil). He can follow directions well, but mostly likes to build his own creative versions of things. He takes such good care of his stuffed animals it’s almost heartbreaking; he tucks them all in every night and sets them up just so (no covers over faces… they need to breathe!). He tells me he’s going to be a good papa someday. I agree.\u00a0\"DSC_0223\"<\/a>\"DSC_0230\"<\/a>Oliver sees the world with different eyes, and I mean this in the best way. I can count on him to find small things in a bigger, more complicated picture. He notices everything, forgets nothing. His brain is an endless abyss of memories and smells and tastes and colors, and the way he relates them to the world leaves me in awe.<\/p>\n

Oliver is hard on himself, often losing it because of frustration or discomfort. He refuses to wear pants or shorts without an elastic band, loves salmon (but only if Andrew grills it), needs a lot of hugs and kisses at nighttime, adores his little brother, and admires his older brother. He is happiest amongst his friends and his own space; when I pick him up from camp or school, no matter how sad, angry, or frustrated he was when I dropped him off (not a morning person), he comes back to me happy as a clam. Oliver thrives on teams.
\n\"DSC_0072\"<\/a>\"DSC_0079\"<\/a>And I’m so honored to have him on mine.<\/p>\n

Happy sixth birthday, dear Oliver! We love you, buddy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy, happy birthday to my dear sweet peach of a boy, Oliver. Six is going to be your year, I can feel it. You are on the verge of so many things! Over the past year, Oliver has matured in a way that I didn’t anticipate. He is compassionate, stubborn, determined, sensitive, and athletic. He … Continue reading “Oliver is 6!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,187],"tags":[70,93,136,77],"class_list":["post-9735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-motherhood","tag-birthday","tag-oliver","tag-portrait","tag-sweet-haircuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9735"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9747,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735\/revisions\/9747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}