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Like father, like son.

January 16th, 2011
Posted by gerrod in: oscar

One of the best things about having kids is watching them developing their own personalities, likes and dislikes – especially when their “likes” are so similar to yours! Take for example, Oscar in his absolute favourite outfit here – an awesome surprise present from Nick and Suzie:

Pearl Jam shirts

Yep, he’s a Pearl Jam fan too! And what makes this outfit even better is that Lea and Dean gave him the same one in the next size up – so he’ll be able to wear it all year! Score!

Lately, we’ve been playing the “what do you want to be when you grow up?” game with Oscar, shooting professions at him (“Doctor? Pilot? Household waste relocation specialist?”) then waiting to see which one he responds to. Progress has been slow – he seems intent to just listen to the profession names; but then he surprised us last night by showing us where his interests lie:

Oscar on the Mac

At first I was convinced he’d be a software engineer like Dad and Grandad Thomas, until Kristy pointed out that he’s using a Mac and not a Windows machine, so it’s more likely he’ll be a graphic artist. Still – I’d be happy with that!

11 comments

#1 Louisa Dahl January 15th, 2011 at 11:53 pm

Love it :)

#2 Gabrielle Jones January 16th, 2011 at 4:49 am

Awww. He is so gorgeous. Perhaps he’ll surprise you. In fact, I’m sure he’ll surprise you, with his chosen “profession.”

#3 Claire Fellini January 16th, 2011 at 5:01 am

So cute! Love that little smile :) the computer shot is priceless!

#4 KJ January 16th, 2011 at 9:07 am

I’d like to point out that in this shot he’s making a list… Like his mumma. I say professional organizer of some sort.

#5 Aubain January 16th, 2011 at 9:57 am

Are you sure he’s not illegally downloading bootleg Pearl Jam tracks?

#6 Jason January 16th, 2011 at 10:51 am

Maybe an event organiser like his Uncle and Aunty???

#7 Roland Smith January 16th, 2011 at 11:17 am

Nah, not a graphic designer still a coder – Macs run a Unix based OS surely that’s the only reason anyone uses them right? Also Donald Kunth uses a mac (or seems to be in this video here http://scpd.stanford.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=8632047)

#8 Shan January 16th, 2011 at 7:10 pm

List of something along the lines of ‘things I must tell mum and dad when I can speak…’. I will be conviced its your genes Kristy when he asks for stationary and a filing system for his lists as a present :) Very cute laptop pic

#9 Stac January 17th, 2011 at 4:59 am

cute!

#10 Helen January 22nd, 2011 at 2:09 pm

That is SO CUTE! And he looks terribly clever.

#11 Helen January 22nd, 2011 at 2:14 pm

(I should warn you, it is also possible he’s a much later, much more advanced part of this little operation:
http://pepperinapress.blogspot.com/2007/05/crunching-numbers.html
but at least with a Mac, he can do it in style…)