Busy, Busy Oliver

I signed Oliver up for Little Ninjas. It's through community education. It's 8 half-hour sessions for $30. I figured this would be a good way to see if he liked karate without much commitment. A few of his cousins joined with him.
For the last while, he's been very in to good-natured "fighting". Some of that is probably thanks to Power Rangers. Some is thanks to rough-housing with Dad. Oliver can often be found kicking, punching, or making guttural sounds that might be heard during a battle, even when he's alone.

So far, there have been two class sessions. It's pretty full, like 16 kids. I have no idea why they let so many kids in. The substitute instructor said they like to keep the class size to 8 kids. Maybe they should have thought about that before they opened an already full class to the community!

The owner was out of town, so they had some helpers for the first class. There's Oliver in his Superman shirt. He's in ready position. =)


This was a little drill concerning balance.
I couldn't get very many good pictures due to a lot of different lame excuses. But Oliver seems to be loving his class. He's excited to go tomorrow.

One morning, Oliver crawled into bed with me. After I got up to do something or other, I can't recall what, I came back to find him like this...

The absolute picture of preciousness. . . And no, he's not pretending to sleep.

Here he is in one of his latest favorite outfits.
He has the cutest arms when he's wearing a muscle shirt. It's hard to see, but he also has a battery operated Batman utility belt on. And don't you love the socks/Avengers sandals combo?