Fun in San Diego

We had a great time with Molly and Matt San Diego! We went to Legoland, a Dodgers game at Petco Park (very traumatic for OP when they lost), geocaching, and hung out around their house (that's a bow and arrows, for all of you clueless folks stuck in the time of Robin Hood). Thanks, friends!

Recent Costumed Adventures

OP likes stories. He likes to read them, rehearse them, and act them out. Along with this love of stories, he has admirable style and imagination. He often fashions costumes and props out of unlikely household items. Of course, occasionally the costume is just right as is. Here are some of his recent costumed adventures:
Auntie Claire sent this one by post after her recent trip with Gavin. Oliver was so excited to open his very own package.
Below is how Oliver prepared himself to walk to dinner at our local Brewery Restaurant.
And here he is trying on costumes at Legoland.

Assistant Bat Boy

Foresters Game, SB, June 23.

"I'm your very own big kid!"

As requested, Oliver and I spent four nights in town with the grandparents, Auntie Claire, and cousin Gavin. OP and "Gav" were thrilled to see one another every time. Here are two photos from their many adventures together. Strangely, I was unable to capture on film the episode in which Oliver held Gavin on his shoulders and I spotted from behind. Also impossible to record was Gavin's glee watching Oliver throw the baseball and dive to catch it! And somehow I missed the huddle and cuddle in which Oliver threw his arms around his auntie with abandon and proclaimed, "I love you and Gavin to infinity!"

Last game

"I think I would like India because I think they have a lot of orange there."

We took a photo after Oliver dressed us to match on Thursday--orange tops, brown trousers.

Oliver does it again!

Here are some photos from Oliver's T-ball team party, which he attended in full uniform, of course. In the top shot he's throwing the ball; the bottom shot shows him with one of his coaches, Chad.
Oli threw himself into T-ball--checking research books and baseball-related novels out of the library and pestering his papa to surf around mlb.com. Each new bit of information he shared with glee at practice and did his best to implement on the field. Because of research he learned it was ok to leave your base/position to field the ball (as well as what the appropriate range is); learned to back up your team member who abandons position to retrieve the ball; and learned how to take a lead off the base as a baserunner (just for the record, there's no lead-off allowed in T-ball, so Oli had to be content to have his foot touch the edge of the bag). He arrived ready and excited for every practice and game, and he did whatever his coaches asked of him. So he did it again: he was nominated team player for the season!