The life and times of Oscar Marcos Perez-Cytron. Born Thanksgiving Day 11/22/01.
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If you want to add something to Oscar's baby-blog, send an email to megan@alpha60.com and we can set it up so you can post...
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Monday, August 13, 2007
4:01 AM posted by Oscar
It's Verbena de la Paloma time again. This is our favorite time of year in Madrid. Our whole neighborhood is one huge dance party all night long. Oscar has been going nuts... staying out until 1:30am every night dancing his butt off. He has danced with old ladies dressed like chulapas to paso dobles, latinas salseando, old guys, gay guys, young hipsters, little kids.... everywhere he makes friends with total strangers and makes them laugh with his crazy moves. He truly just has no "verguenza" (as they say here, no se corta para nada). Every night we have to drag him home. He asks why he has to go when so many other kids are still out... I keep telling him he's in training. When he's six he can stay out until 2:00... I have a few little videos that I need to post at some point...
We've also been seeing some pretty amazingly weird and funny European street theater/clowning (via A pie de la calle). Tonight two hairy Italian guys in tiny shorts--asquerosamente divertido (disgustingly fun). Last night a guy from Malaga who juggled in a way that defies description. More little videos that I need to post. Could be a future job for Oscar if he keeps up his antics.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
7:28 PM posted by Oscar
Oscar and Christian are jamming in the front room. Christian plays a bass line and Oscar plays the downbeats on the piano. They could do this for hours.
These are really lazy days (for them, more than me--I've got work and studying hanging over my head a bit). We stay inside pretty much all day long (we got this special fan that humidifies the air and cools things off to the point where no one's blood is boiling) and then go out for a big walk for a couple of hours when it cools down. I know I say the same thing every year, but I just love Madrid at this time of year. It feels like Friday every single day with everyone milling around and lounging out on the streets, kids playing in the park until midnight...
Oscar and I are reading James and the Giant Peach right now. He loves it and I think I like it even better--it is insanely well-written. We're also delving into Julio Cortázar. Not a children's writer, but his short stories are so whimsical and imaginative. I'll post one here sometime soon...
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