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LORD OF THE DANCE

This week has seen Ollie hone two of his recently acquired skills – dancing and climbing.  The dancing has seen him develop from his previous knee bopping to a more advanced Riverdance style.  He gets his hands up above his head and then his little feet go a million miles an hour.  Very Michael Flatley and VERY Happy Feet.  The climbing is also cute but a bit more worrying.  His little car has borne the brunt of it all with him dragging it around the house and popping his little feet up on it, steadying himself and then, voila, standing!  The best bit of all is when he combines the two skills and manages to do a little Riverdance on the car with his hands in the air.  Priceless.

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Here’s a pic of Bee playing with his hand puppet.  We have a couple now courtesy of Ikea and Ollie thinks it is great to watch me make the puppets talk, dance, kiss and fight each other and eat Duplo blocks.  My favourite bit is when I put the puppets on his hands and he makes his version of my puppet noises and moves his hands around.  Imitation is the highest form of flattery indeed.

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One thing he hasn’t seen me do is wear a bucket on his head.  Didn’t stop him though…

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We were lucky this weekend to have a visit from Pa Chris and Nanna Kaye.  They hadn’t seen Ollie since his first birthday so were very impressed with his ability to walk and talk now.  They got to check him out at his new swimming school and took him on a nice big walk on Sunday morning while Nick and I got the chance to sit around on the deck to catch up on our books and drink coffee.  Bliss. 

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And it finally happened.  Ollie and Gus had a stoush.  There had been a reasonable number of low level incidents in recent history, but nothing of great concern.  I have been constantly running interference between them but the other day I forgot that Gus was inside.  I was putting groceries away in the kitchen when I heard Ollie crying.  Naturally I presumed he had been doing his Riverdance on top of his car and fallen off but when I got to him he was still standing up.  I took a look at his arm and saw a bunch of scratches and a couple of possible teeth marks.  Ollie, ever the tattletale was saying “Gus Gus Gus”.  Turns out Gus had been sitting on the dining chair peacefully when Ollie had decided it was time to play.  I was furious and may have muttered something about her signing her death warrant but I’ve calmed down a bit since then.  We are still trying to find her a home (two weekends as a giveaway in the newspaper but no success) so if you know anyone who is after a free cat who is a bit of a challenge, drop me a line!

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