Ollie Toussaint

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Happy Birthday Aunt Marcie!!

This afternoon we went to Aunt Teresa's house for Aunt Marcie's birthday.

Ollie & Kristina playing on the trampoline.

Ollie likes to fight with Uncle Brad!

And Rose!

And Uncle Lester!

Daddy got a wild hair to mow the grass and of course Ollie had to help!

Kristina & Aunt Marcie hanging out on the trampoline!

Beth wants to join in the fun...

Ollie wants to pet the mean kitty so Papa holds onto it for him.

Ollie is helping Grandma Toussaint fold the tent.

Here's a birthday kiss Aunt Marcie!

Trying to squeeze the tent into the tiny bag. Grandma says "think skinny"!

They did finally get it, Teresa refolded the tent and somehow managed to get it small enough to get into the bag.

Ollie and Kristina on the trampoline again!

What a fun day - Ollie was so exhausted he was asleep before we got out of their subdivision!

4th of July!

We went to Papa's house on the 4th. It was raining so we had to move down to his big shed.

Ollie had his very own fireworks. He had little pow guns that shoot out confetti!

He also had little poppers and he liked to step on them and throw them at people's feet. Bella actually liked the fireworks too. She ran after bottle rockets and tried to catch them. Silly Bella!

Ollie had a surprise firework bag, I wonder what's in there?

Snakes!!! Ollie liked watching the snakes grow.

Uncle Kevin and Daddy had a good time shooting off the fireworks.

Ollie is feeding his poppers to the snakes.

My husband is truly a bigger is better, Tim the Tool Man kind of guy. Check out the propane torch. Is that really necessary to light some bottle rockets? I guess if you are trying to light 20 at one time.

Ollie and the 4th of July cupcakes we made. Yummy!

We had some big sparklers left over they are almost too big for Ollie - check out the sparkler videos below.

We had some pretty big fireworks too. Kevin & Chris put on a good show.

Hope everyone had a Happy & Safe 4th of July!!!

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Fireworks!!!

On Friday we went swimming at Aunt Erin's house in the early afternoon and then home for a long nap.

Ollie loves his "joker glasses"!

Friday night we went to O'Fallon to see some fireworks. It worked out perfectly, we found Aunt Erin real quick. Craig Morgan was putting on a concert, we could not see him but we could hear him very well.

Tyler and his friend, Zach.

Ollie and Daddy working on Ollie's glow sticks from Batman & Robin.

Ollie looks so pretty!

Ollie, Uncle Kevin and Aunt Erin.

Ollie put his glow sticks into rings and was sharing with the baby. He loved this little baby girl he kept running over there during the fireworks to watch them with the baby!

Sorry Mom, I couldn't get a very good pic of the fireworks. Hopefully you got to see some at the cabin or in LA! The O'Fallon fireworks were fabulous! We were all sitting on a hill facing the fairgrounds and they started to the right of us so we all had to turn around. But then we were in the prime spot. They were right in front of us! They did a really good job and the finale went on forever! I kept thinking this is great it has to be the finale and then it would just keep on going!

Friday, July 3, 2009

4th of July Weekend Kickoff!

Last night we went downtown St. Charles to the fair. I did my best to talk Tyler and Zack into going with us but they didn't want too. Didn't want to cramp their style by hanging out the adults!

It was "wrist band night" so you could pay $15 and ride as many rides as you want from 4-11pm. Ollie got a wrist band and rode all the rides he was big enough to ride!

Aunt Erin & Uncle Kevin took him on the Dizzy Dragon!

I went down the big slide with Ollie once. He did fine carrying his rug up the steps and did not seem scared at all.

So then he went down by himself at least 5 more times!

This ride is kind of like the Dumbo ride they go up pretty high. Ollie was putting his feet up on the seat and turning around. The guy yelled at him a couple of times and Ollie just laughed at him. I don't think he could hear what he was saying. We didn't ride this anymore b/c I was afraid he would fall out.

There was a climber and tunnels that Ollie loved. He went in this thing more than 10 times. Later in the evening I told him it would be the last time and he went in and I didn't see him for awhile. There were lots of kids in there and no one was coming out. I thought I heard someone crying so I stuck my head in to yell for Ollie. Then the lady that was working there said she would go in and get them. Some of the kids finally started to come out and one little girl was bawling. Her mom asked her what was wrong and she said a little boy was hitting her. Ollie still hadn't come out and I finally saw him coming back down to go out the entrance. Meanwhile the other parents were freaking out that someone was in there hitting the other kids. I grabbed Ollie when he came out and walked away with him. When we got away from the others I asked him if he was hitting. He said yes. I asked why and he said "it was my bridge". Yikes! I have a little bully on my hands. I explained that we don't hit anyone and that was bad so he could not go in there anymore. But, I was not about to walk back past the other kids with their parents. I didn't want them to recognize him!

While I was waiting in line for the Ferris Wheel Ollie got to go fishing! He caught two fish at one time! Can you see his grin?

There's another big grin!

Ollie and Mommy riding the Ferris Wheel.

We stopped at the very top when they were letting people off and he says "we're stuck up here, now what are we gonna do?" He was a little worried but glad when it started moving again.

We started to leave around 9:00. While we were walking back to the car we saw three police horsies! And the police lady stopped and let Ollie pet the horse. He thought that was so cool!

On the way home, Becky, my neighbor called and said that they were going to set off some fireworks and invited us over. They had some really good ones. So we hung out on their driveway for a long time. We didn't come in until midnight - bad mommy! Oh well, we had a good time.