{"id":6052,"date":"2018-11-21T22:24:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T04:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2024-06-20T11:24:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T16:24:48","slug":"olivers-second-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/21\/olivers-second-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver’s Second Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

We celebrated Oliver’s birthday a bit early this year because we’ll be up at the cabin on the actual day, and we wanted to celebrate with Grandma Pam and Grandpa Jeff. We enjoyed a birthday brunch together featuring a fabulous spiced squash cake that everybody loved except for Oliver. (He ate about half the scrambled eggs instead.) Pictures below followed by two short video clips.<\/p>\n

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We began the morning with an early present of some blocks that Sarah picked up at a recent yard sale. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Knock them down! <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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The joy of destruction. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Ready to feast. <\/div> <\/div>
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Oliver kept covering his eyes as the cake approached. We’re not sure why. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Ultimately, Oliver is the only person who didn’t love the cake. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Pam and Jeff’s masterpiece. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Yup. We’re putting this guy to work. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Maggie <\/a>
Maggie gave him the loader. He loved it. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Griffin got him a game that features Yetis and marbles flying through the air. He loved that too. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Blowing out his candle (and some very sour grapefruit!):<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Opening Maggie’s gift:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Update:<\/strong> We took the following picture on the 25th at the cabin:<\/p>\n

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Today, we celebrated the youngest member of our family, Oliver Louis, by boot skating on the lake, cutting our Christmas tree, and playing in the snow. Today, he turned TWO. We love this guy to pieces and can’t imagine our lives without him.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We celebrated Oliver’s birthday a bit early this year because we’ll be up at the cabin on the actual day, and we wanted to celebrate with Grandma Pam and Grandpa Jeff. We enjoyed a birthday brunch together featuring a fabulous spiced squash cake that everybody loved except for Oliver. (He ate about half the scrambled … Continue reading Oliver’s Second Birthday<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[87,54],"tags":[37,27,28,88,51],"class_list":["post-6052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oliver","category-photo","tag-birthdays","tag-grandma-pam","tag-grandpa-jeff","tag-oliver","tag-pictures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/20181121_112733_053_edited-1.jpg?fit=4032%2C2039&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6052"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8448,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions\/8448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}