phone & cheese

Phone and "cheese":

Making friends at a Christmas party:



Making more friends:



Back to work:

jimi and pictures

O'mi dancing to Jimi and pretending to take my picture.

dinner time

Happy faces:






All done eating:



Bottle time with a new (middle-aged man) habit. They grow up so fast:

remote

a new word:

swing

O'mi playing at the playground:

pants dancing

The normal state of the union at the end of the day:

stills

A future surfer:

Into the wild

Trouble with roots:



How he got there:

back in action

O'mi is over his cold:

a while ago

O'mi had a cold this past week. Instead of pictures of the more colorful stages of the illness, here are some we had taken for his first birthday:

hitting the streets part 2

camera faces at the park:

Hitting the side streets

The little man about the neighborhood:


O'mi's new camera poses:

Labi

O'mi always tries to play with the keyboard for our computer.
An electronics store was heaven:

Hawai'i

We had a real photographer with us in Hawaii, so I didn't take too many pictures.

Lei:



Jet lag:



At the beach:

gone

We'll be away on vacation for a week, so no new pictures until we get back.

For now, O'mi fits into overalls I used to wear a few years back:



At the park where we settled on the name O'mi:

play group

A play group at a local temple:

raging

Raging bull, dazed dancer:

toddling

Up and down, O'mi is busy:

Atami

Not the first time O'mi has been to the beach, but the first time he set foot in the water. It was a little bewildering for the little man, but he seemed to enjoy it. (Yes, the swim trunks will probably still be roomy next summer):

Jabberwocky

On the phone and other plastic things:




'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought

And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Lewis Carroll

fireworks

We saw some fireworks, but O'mi was more interested in cheerios:


At home, he's eager to read:

getting closer

At some point, O'mi will walk on his own. But until then, he makes do as he makes noise:

hot

The weather has been pretty hot and steamy so O'mi doesn't wear too many clothes.

He often alternates between torpid and happy moods.

same old, same old...

O'mi still does his "oh no" pose.

O'mi jabbers about something.

staying still

O'mi rarely stops moving and is still captivated by the camera. Clear pictures are hard to come by, unless there is a distraction.





And if he stays still for the camera, I usually get one his special camera faces.

diapers

To keep O'mi from grabbing the camera, I turned on the TV:



He saw a puppet he liked:




Pining for the camera:



Eyes on the strap:



Getting closer...



After I said "no":

O'mi has taken to making odd faces for the camera:





He can now get himself close to the computer.




New hairstyle:



Still a wise guy: