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Izzy got a great video of Oliver freestyling over a pre-recorded track on the family’s old keyboard.
Oliver’s cousin, Emily, has a blog she writes in the first person, and she posted about her fantastic weekend with Griz and Marmie and the rest of the gang in Lafayette. The O-Zone makes an appearance in some of the pics, too.
WCCC!!!! We celebrated the West Coast Charo Christmas last weekend. It was tons of fun. I did a lot of reading and checked out “stun gun Santa” that Daddy made when he was little. It was great to spend time with my family. Soon I will be going to Arizona to celebrate second Christmas.
I also don’t remember if I ever posted the pics of the O-Zone in his Halloween costume, but here’s a few we got of him running around the house that day
We took pics with the mall Santa, but I realized today that I never posted them.
This was a fav, but there’s a couple others if you’re curious.
![Did a lot of goofing around at the Palo Alto Children’s Museum & Zoo this weekend.
It’s funny because the place is packed with kids, but Oliver barely notices anyone there but the people he arrives with. He’s still not at an age yet where he plays with other kids, just near them.
He also did the most athletic thing I’ve ever seen from him while there: It won’t translate well to text, but he went up a shot bridge over the goose pond at the zoo pretty quickly, failed to slow down at the top, and then got completely out of control going down the bridge. I was a few feet away, but knew I wouldn’t be able to catch him, and that he was about to face plant when his feet couldn’t keep up… except he took two big bounds, put his hands in the air, and took a hard right turn at the bottom of the bridge, teetering, but never falling. It was impressive enough that two nearby parents congratulated him ☺ [I’m happy to act it out for you if that didn’t make sense]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw2vb7PX411qbqtmlo1_500.jpg)
Did a lot of goofing around at the Palo Alto Children’s Museum & Zoo this weekend.
It’s funny because the place is packed with kids, but Oliver barely notices anyone there but the people he arrives with. He’s still not at an age yet where he plays with other kids, just near them.
He also did the most athletic thing I’ve ever seen from him while there: It won’t translate well to text, but he went up a shot bridge over the goose pond at the zoo pretty quickly, failed to slow down at the top, and then got completely out of control going down the bridge. I was a few feet away, but knew I wouldn’t be able to catch him, and that he was about to face plant when his feet couldn’t keep up… except he took two big bounds, put his hands in the air, and took a hard right turn at the bottom of the bridge, teetering, but never falling. It was impressive enough that two nearby parents congratulated him ☺ [I’m happy to act it out for you if that didn’t make sense]
We did a bunch more of our “shopping cart adventure” game this weekend. When I jokingly put my bike helmet on Oliver for a quick photo op, he actually loved it (weird, b/c he normally hates hats), and insisted on wearing it for a while.
Eventually (like, after an hour), he got bored, and actually wanted to play with other things, like a book, while riding, which is when I decided I might be burning calories in a thankless pursuit :-)
Oliver got a singing snowman as a gift, and showed his appreciation through interpretive dance.
Oliver’s teacher put on a Christmas celebration yesterday, that Lisa and I dropped in on. Among the many highlights for Oliver was sitting in a “big boy chair”.
If you look closely at my right shoulder, you’ll see the place where Oliver’s mouth hit my shirt giving me a hug. I walked in, and he was in the middle of drinking hot chocolate for the first time in his life. When he saw me. He put it down and came running over, never stopping to wipe his mouth. Without all the info I needed to assess the situation, I embraced him, though I’m not sure what I would’ve done differently if I’d know. You can’t not hug this guy when he’s offering ☺
Oliver likes to have his stomach rubbed after he’s placed in his crib. It’s adorable. He’ll sometimes even beg for a tummy rub by lifting his shirt and making a pleading look (captured here).
Lisa calls this “smoothing”, and the name makes total sense, but I’d never heard it before. When she insisted this was common use, we turned to the internet to settle the debate. The use case didn’t appear in any standard dictionary (unless you’re being really generous with your interpretation), so we turned to the Ubran Dictionary. Reading their first definition led to the hardest I’ve laughed at a web page in a while (especially the example dialogue).
Oliver seemed to like the bobcat cage at the local zoo. You’d think ferocious cats would be NBD to him.
We waited 1 day too long to clip Oliver’s nails, so now he’s rolling into the Sea Turtle room like Omar from the Wire.
Oliver had breakfast and a park play-date with his family, but also with Uncle Adam’s 3 doggies.
An hour of play time with very baby-friendly dogs was more than Oliver could handle. He was pretty worn out by the end.
Oliver got really psyched about the national dog show. One of the first TV shows he’s ever attentively watched. Thanks to Gramma Colleen for the idea!
