Standing tall, sort of.

O'mi has learned he can roll over and pull himself up in his play-pen/bed. This is not good. If he doesn't want to go to sleep he appears like this when we open the door:



making quite a racket.


Eating has become an adventure. O'mi needs to learn how to take smaller bites instead of wolfing things down like Rocky does.

zombie noises

Now that O'mi is eleven months old, he has learned to mimic a few things.

For some reason he likes to growl like a zombie:


He also mimics our coughs, sometimes:

slow

It's been rainy most of the week so there hasn't been much to do. O'mi crawls a little faster, but still doesn't corner very well. His will to power is getting stronger every day. So, a few old pictures (1 week old or so), and a new video of O'mi with Rocky.

The cheery cherry blossoms were falling:



Which means new leaves:



On this walk I noticed on the neighborhood bulletin board some graffiti. In translation, it reads "Topple North Korea":




And the moving picture:

chopsticks

Sometimes chopsticks are needed to jumpstart O'mi's meals.


O'mi dances, sort of.


O'mi also has his own way of grabbing a bottle.

It's cherry blossom time.
I took O'mi to the temple across the street and tried out some of the settings on my camera. Unfortunately, not many photos came out well.




I gave O'mi a fallen blossom but he wasn't sure what to do with it.




He enjoyed the lens cap a little more.

mobile

O'mi is now mobile. He crawled two steps one day, and then across the room the next. We were still safe when he ended up collapsing on his belly. He couldn't figure out how to lift himself back up. That ended the next day. Now, he has no problems going from his belly to crawling. His favorite objects are now very clear as he can (semi)freely pursue them. In no particular order, O'mi likes phones, pens, notebooks, Rocky, and Rocky's bone. No videos of the rampaging baby yet, but I should have one next week.

For now, O'mi had a 10-months birthday party. I'm not sure what that is, but every 20th, Kiyomi figures out some way to celebrate. This time she made a kind of steamed sweet potato bread and it was the first time O'mi actually got to eat his birthday cake. Here is the evidence.


A little curious...





A little voracious...

peek-a-boo

O'mi has learned how to play peek-a-boo. He will do it over and over by hiding his own eyes. In the video below, he plays with Kiyomi who says the Japanese version of peek-a-boo. He also has begun to do some head-banging, even to opera. However, lack of music doesn't seem to stop O'mi.