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NANOO NANOO

Last week I wrote about Ollie’s newfound use of the word Nanna. While this word continues to feature prominently, and in appropriate situations, this week it has evolved.  Not only is it applied for the Nanna people, but it has cropped up when applied to Ollie’s current fave fruit – bananas.  Oddly though, it has morphed into a reference from Mork & Mindy and he often runs around the house saying “nanoo nanoo”!

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Nick and Obear had a boys day at the shops last week and came home with a present for Ollie which was really a present for me – an art set.  I may have thought Ollie was a little young for it but have been proved completely wrong.  He thinks drawing with crayons is AWESOME and we’ve done it at least once a day since then.  He is also enjoying my drawings of things he recognises like Panda, dogs and dinosaurs.  We are both having a cracker of a time scribbling stuff and it has got me completely excited about all the fun crafty stuff we have to look forward to over the years.  Now I just have to keep the crayons on the paper and off the walls.

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Another bonus from the art set was the cool little toy box that it came in.  Ollie thinks it is great fun to wander around the house carrying his little tool box. 

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Obear wearing one of my hats before we headed out to Vietnamese for lunch on the weekend.  Yummo.

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I think I’ve mentioned our turkey friends before who frequent the tree that grows on our deck.  It is like having our own personal zoo.  This week I managed to capture a picture of them so you can see just how close they live to us.  It is crazy that Ollie has 10-20 words in his vocabulary and one of them is turkey!! GOBBLE GOBBLE.

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Here is Pandy enjoying a swing … and Ollie is wearing his Panda shirt as well. 

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