Hi Oliver, Happy Third Birthday! You've had an amazing year with soo much growth, learning, joy and are full of more personality than ever! You are thriving at school and around November you finally opened up and started talking at school and telling your teachers things you needed, how you felt, etc. From the videos from school, it looks like you sit down and listen very well. You love to do PE class and throw balls, run and follow directions closely. A few months before your 3rd birthday, you started up in swimming classes with Mr Renato. All of your classmates are older than you are but you fit right in and caught up with them in a heartbeat. You have no fear of water and love to jump in, and go down in the water before we can pick you up! You also have no fear in the park or of heights. You are an amazing climber and love to jump. You can balance really well on one foot and love to jump on and off the sofa. You really love hot wheels like...
Here are some little stories about things that Ollie says and does. He is write the little character nowadays. As Luke has kind of taken a side step from his hot wheels, it seems like Ollie has stepped into the void and he is enjoying hot wheels city and racing cars down the tracks. He loves to sing, he can Happy Birthday in English and Portuguese. And for people who aren't Portuguese, almost none of the words repeat themselves in PT, so you have to learn a lot of words which I think is very impressive for a two year old. He loves Cookie Monster. He will dress up as Cookie Monster for Halloween, and I will be his sidekick, Elmo. Luke really wanted to get him to join in the Pokemon theme but Ollie wasn't having that. The day it came in the mail, we had to bust it out of the packaging and put it on, even though it was 25 degrees or something that day. He was completely covered in sweat but so happy to have his cookie. He has a Seasame Street book with buttons and songs a...