Ollie is 3

just three years ago i was having panic attacks in the hospital b/c i knew very soon they'd be seding me home with a baby to be responsible for. my mom reminded me of that this weekend. it was not so funny at the time but so funny now.

i had no idea oliver mccall jansen would be so amazing and my best buddy. i've had the best time being ollie's mom and enjoy watching him learn and grow.

this week we celebrated ollie. thursday we had a chuck-e-cheese party with a few other 3 year old kids. saturday aunt ambo, gigi, paw and our neighborhood friends came over for a lil birthday party.

in action blowing out the candles.

grrr...he got this lion costume from our neighbors

3 years old and riding a bike like a big boy

he goes to preschool and wears a backpack

OLLIE IS:

• clever


• courageous (we've seen the emergency room occasionally in his 3 short years of life)


• adventurous (hence the er visits)


• exciting


• witty


• funny (he like to make up knock knock jokes...like our friend, jackson smith)


• encouraging (he is always quick to praise his dad for a good swing of the golf club)


• atheletic (the kid is a golfer he's got his golf clubs and practices daily)


• kind hearted


• loved

my sweet mother-in-law has a prayer and verse for each of her grandchildren. this is the prayer she prayed for ollie from day 1.

"may you always be healthy, happy, holy, wise, kind and capable."

"he is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields it's fruit in due season and whose leaf does not wither. whatever he does prospers."
psalm 1:3

--cj