The Disc Jockey

June 18, 2006 / Sunday / 6:00 p.m.

It’s one of those typical bummer Sundays when the weather totally spoils what could have been a nice long day in the park.

Theo enjoys running around in the grass, picking up leaves, stones and twigs along the way and giggling with amusement at crawling insects. Because of his keen "scientific" examination of the terrain, akin to an archaeologist searching for fossils (yeah, right!), it would often take us more than 10 minutes just to cover a few square feet of space. But his mind is growing and working as the world unfolds before him, and we just let him be.

Today, however, is not one of those days. We just stayed home as the rains kept coming and going. Mommy D was just surfing the Net, I was configuring another PC with Linux software, while Theo was doing what he does best: mess up the entire place.

Recently, Theo has shown the ability to recognize pictures in some of the picture books that his Aunt Tippi had given him. It was quite surprising for us when he readily pointed out the things that we asked for. And more than ever, he can follow our simple instructions very easily.

For this week’s post, I have uploaded a few of his recent photos. Three of which are just cute shots of him in different moods while the one showing him sitting inside the train was taken yesterday when we went to Tokyo for some shopping and to meet with Ian and Tippi.

As always, Theo enjoys travel. He doesn't go into tantrums in public, and when he starts becoming restless, it's just a clear signal to us that he's tired and wants to get some sleep.

It's such a great joy playing with him at his age. This passes only once and we're savoring it.