I Can Do That!

Oscar has been increasingly showing great interest in being helpful (although not always about what WE are wanting him to help with). He wants to open every door, turn on and off the lights, clean up spills, and feed Bone. The other day he noticed one of the supports on the stool was a little loose and declared "I'm going to fix it!"

 With tape. I was working on dinner and though I could hear him busily working, I didn't realize just how he was "fixing" the stool until I looked down and saw nearly a whole roll of tape wrapped around the loose support.

 And then the other night he wanted to help make pizza--and "not just the toppings". So I gave him a hunk of the dough and showed him how to do each step. He floured and stretched his little dough ball, spooned on the sauce, and topped it with cheese.

 And here it is ready to eat!

Pizza you make yourself must taste pretty good because he ate it all and then some.
We love our burgeoning helper and are so proud of all of the things he is learning to do on his own.

Persistance

I don't unload videos from our good ol' Flip video camera often enough, so when I do I inevitably find a fun moment I'd already managed to almost forget. This is from the end of January--just before OK's birthday. A little background knowledge: as part of our Chinese New Year celebration in my classroom, we were learning to use chopsticks (such fun!). With the leftover popcorn and chopsticks, Oscar gave it a try as well.