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Firstly, let me thank our friend Glen for taking these beautiful photos of Obear today at Ned’s wonderful 4th birthday party.  Ollie and I joined a few of our friends and a whole bunch of other kids at a fantastic park to run around like crazy people and consume lots of sugar.  Ollie got a real kick out of it as he is pretty in awe of bigger kids at the moment and loves to mimic their behaviour.  He particularly loved being involved in the treasure hunt, as well as demolishing lots of fruit and just a few cakes and lollies.

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As for the title, well Ollie has added ‘um’ to his vocabulary.  He uses it perfectly, when you ask him something, he goes “um??” until he can tell you the answer.  Too too beautiful.  He also has so many other words each day that it amazes us.  You just have to say “can you say Sophie?” (the lovely little girl across the road that Ollie loves) and he repeats it.  He is also starting to connect words in an appropriate manner.  This week he grabbed Nick’s keys off him and declared “my daddy’s keys”.  Very cool indeed.

You might be able to see lots of teeth in the photos.  Teeth are pretty much the biggest thing going on around here (apart from lots of packing in the lead up to the move). O’s teeth are cracking through his poor little gums one by one and he is rewarding them with great care.  After his shower every night he squeals “teeth, teeth” and jumps up and down with excitement until we clean his teeth.  Hopefully this enthusiasm for dental hygiene is a longstanding thing.

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While our friend Jessie was having a go on the swings today, we were left to look after her fairy wings.  We figured, why let the girls have all the fun.  Check out how cute he looks.

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Obear is sleeping super soundly tonight as we had a lovely late afternoon tear around with all the neighbourhood kids.  The weather was a bit dreary so us mums sheltered in someone’s garage on fold out chairs while the kids went wild.  Ollie demonstrated his extreme side, insisting on riding the bigger kid skateboards and scooters.  He is going to be a real boys boy when he gets older.

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