Busy January

Wow, this has been a busy January, both at work and at home. First things first, I heard Friday about my new job! Tom is going to to be the Commanding Officer of the ASPEN, a buoy tender in San Francisco (yay!) and I am going to be the Sector San Francisco Waterways Division Chief (another yay!). Amazingly, we both got our first choice this year. So we are very happy and now the planning can begin in earnest for the move out west.

O has been very busy too. He says new words everyday, and puts two or three together for short sentences. He is actually very good at communicating what he wants or needs.

He still loves music and his little piano:
Yesterday, we went to roller derby in DC. After the roller derby fun, we had some people, including Kristen back to the house for calzones. O was a charming host, as usual:

He is very focused at times - in this photo he is pretending the giraffe and the drum are a mini-blender like we use to make smoothies, complete with sound effects.
Very focused on his piano playing...
And here, he is pretending that his blocks are faucets and soap dispensers. He put his cups under the pieces and would make water noises as he "filled" them up. Pretty cool to see him pretending like that.