We have a tradition in our house that every year on each of the kids birthdays they get a "special day" with just Mama. It's such a fun way to connect with each one individually and make some really sweet memories! The last couple of months have been especially crazy so we finally got to squeeze in Oliver's day a week late.
His first request was breakfast at Starbucks so that "You can get coffee, Mama." The boy knows the way to his Mama's heart that is for sure! After breakfast we headed to Target so he could pick out a few little things. We had taken him to Target on his actual birthday and let him get a toy but Target is part of our tradition so of course we had to make it happen.
Next up, I surprised him with a trip to The Children's Museum. We had never been before and I knew it was something he would love! It was so fun to watch him learn and explore.
Throughout the day he would point out different things that he thought each of his siblings would love if they were there with us. He even dressed up in this firefighting costume just to take a picture to show Sawyer when we got home. He has the sweetest most thoughtful little heart especially when it comes to his siblings!
One of his favorite areas of the museum was this water table that they have outside. He set up all of these dinosaurs and trees and probably could have stayed there all day to play. He was so proud of his work.
After a couple of hours at the museum and Oliver almost becoming an alligator's lunch we decided to grab some lunch of our own.
It was so fun to walk all over downtown together. We stopped over this bridge to watch the creek as it was flowing pretty quickly after all of the rain we recently got. The last time we were up there it had hardly any water in it and it definitely wasn't flowing much at all so he thought that was pretty cool. He got this pirate telescope at the museum as a souvenir and I don't think he put it down once for the rest of the day.
We raided the candy shop...before lunch...cause we could. It only took him about twenty minutes to pick out what he wanted but he ended up finding the best gummy worms we've ever tasted so clearly he was winning.
Little Porter tagged along for the day as our third wheel. Oliver didn't mind at all, he's pretty obsessed with his tiniest brother, but it definitely slowed us down quite a bit since he has to eat every two hours. He even had the biggest poopy blow out I've ever witnessed as we got back in the car to leave for our much anticipated trip to the beach.
Oliver was so excited to use his telescope at the beach because "the beach is the perfect place for a pirate telescope!". I felt so bad because we got there late than we wanted to and it was really cold and windy so we couldn't stay long at all because Porter didn't have any clothes since the spare outfit I had in my bag was too small for him. His swaddle blanket just wasn't enough for the California winter chill.
We stopped at the farmer's market they had set up on the walk back to the car to get kettle corn and roasted corn on a stick so I think that made up for it a little bit anyway.
