Sweet Tooth(s)

O.K.'s on the verge of having a total of four dangerous little teeth. His bottom two are old news (not to mention, sharp as anything!), but his "fangs" (the two eye teeth which have yet to be captured on film) are quickly making their presence known. We've considered new nicknames to go with this vampire-ish look, my favorite being "Spike". Other suggestions?
We will post pics of these perilous pearly whites soon...

A Swinger For Sure

On Saturday, we walked to the Clark Park Festival. We didn't bring any cash, which was momentarily disappointing, but I'm not missing the cloth-covered hula-hoop I had my eye on, so it must have been a good thing. Instead, we watched all the people for a while, and then plopped O.K. on a swing. He enjoyed a pretty gentle sway, and we anticipate more days of pushin' this kid back and forth.

Sittin' Pretty

O.K. is meeting his goals in physical therapy, so we keeping having to make new ones. I'm not sure anymore if setting physical therapy goals is actually necessary to his healthy development, or if we are basically stating what we expect a 7 month old to do next and then encouraging him to do it. Either way, it doesn't hurt to have a "professional", whom we happen to like, spend a little time with Oscar each week. Our current goal is sitting up, and -- TA DA! -- here he is, doing just that.

In this video, O.K.'s putting all his energy into staying upright.

Another Before and After

The bricks in the back needed to be pointed. Some sections were pretty bad.

But now no amount of huffin' and puffin' will bring this house down.

The basement walls before:

The basement walls after:

In the next installment of "Before and After" we will share the repaired and painted front steps (painting to be done soon)...

Raspberries

You've heard us mention them. You've maybe even received one. But for posterity, here it is: our sweet little man's emerging musical talent.