The life and times of Oscar Marcos Perez-Cytron. Born Thanksgiving Day 11/22/01.
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Friday, November 21, 2003
9:28 PM posted by Oscar
We've been celebrating Oscar's birthday for the past two days. Yesterday, Mary Kate and Harry came over for dinner and we had a cake with two candles. Ever since Parker's birthday party, Oscar has been very interested in the whole concept of birthdays. I'm starting to feel a little guilty for not having a party for him, but things have just been too hectic lately with work and the house. It seems more important to just enjoy the day-to-day things. We finally finished getting the cabinets up in the kitchen, which was a major ordeal. Everything is gradually coming together with our plans to go to Madrid next year... We're just trying to make as much money as possible between now and then.
A few weeks ago we were talking to another mom at the park and she said that her son really went through a developmental metamorphosis right at his second birthday. I can really see that now with Oscar he is now talking like crazy in English and in Spanish. He's not just repeating and imitating, he's starting to come up with his own expressions and idiosyncratic sayings. His latest is "sucia agua" (dirty water). He says this whenever something is dirty, icky, or just less than ideal. I have no idea where he got this from. He's saying it in the wrong sequence--it should be "agua sucia," not "sucia agua." But it seems to capture a certain mood and phenomenon very well and we use it now, too.
Oscar's music class is helping him get used to more structured activities. He is really starting to get into it and participate more. He loves his teacher and the other kids in the class. His favorite songs are Ring Around the Rosey and the Chocolate song. He is remarkably uninhibited and socially unencumbered--most other kids his age seem much more reserved and cautious. He just runs around dancing and singing, even if he doesn't know the words. No one can understand anything that he is saying, but we're getting about fifty percent now. He doesn't seem too intent on assigning meaning to his utterances. Harry likened him to a postmodern singer who expresses herself without "language" through the full range of sounds and tones. This seems to freak some people out!
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