PUSHING BUTTONS

(Doesn’t he just look like the cover of “Nevermind”?)

 

This week has been all about pushing buttons for Ollie. If it can be pushed, he is into it.  Powerpoints, TV on/off buttons (particularly annoying if you are watching something important, like the winter Olympics) buttons on clothes and remote controls, especially remote controls.

Ollie has been picking up every remote control around and placing it to his ear like a phone.  He then has this gorgeous new jibber jabber language that only comes out when he is pretending to be on the phone.  It almost sounds like he is saying “hello”, then he waits a second and then starts chatting.  Funnily enough it sounds exactly like Poppy Mick who we have spent the last few weekends with.  And like Micky, Ollie has to walk around the room when he is chitty chatting on the phone too.

The other kind of buttons Obear has been pushing lately are ours.  He is really into pushing boundaries at the moment and we are starting to see such delightful behaviour as tantrums starting to rear their ugly head.  Take something from him, tantrum.  Don’t give him what you are drinking (say beer!), tantrum.  Don’t let him play with a terribly dangerous implement, tantrum. 

If that wasn’t bad enough, the naughty behaviour is accompanied with a violent streak of biting, scratching, pinching and head-butting.  We are trying to stamp it out with scolding etc. but it doesn’t seem to be working.  At the moment he has a sadistic streak that takes great delight in hurting the ones he loves.  Fingers crossed it is just a phase.  Fortunately he counter-balances this with delightful cuddles and kisses so he is still totally adored.

As I mentioned before, we have spent the last few weekends with Nanna Freddy & Poppy Mick at the coast.  We have had the loveliest (freeloading) holiday.  Ollie has been going for early morning walks with Nanna Freddy and checking out the dogs and ducks (see last week’s blog!!!).  The funniest part of the walks has been Ollie’s reading of his book that Aunty Alicia and Uncle Guy gave him for Christmas.  It is about ‘fashion’ and has really captured Obear’s heart.  As soon as he gets into his pram he starts reading it but then when something interesting happens he puts it down, until the next boring bit.  The Japanese tourists loved it so much that they took lots of pics of him reading it. 

Exciting news for Nick and I – we have been out for dinner two out of the last three nights with our lovely little boy sleeping in his pram.  We are totally in training for our trip to Bali in the near future so are making an extra effort to get Ollie nightlife ready.  The first dinner wasn’t completely perfect with Obear waking up toward the end of dinner but we suspect this was due to the sounds of many broken plates and glasses emanating from the extremely nearby kitchen.  Last night was much more successful with Ollie sleeping soundly through the entire dinner.  So much so that our fellow diners didn’t actually believe us that there was a baby in the pram!!