Bis-Ball

Oliver is obsessed. He just goes bananas for sports, which he refers to collectively as "beec-ball/ bis-ball or just ball." Basketball, football, baseball, hockey, golf, you name it. If there is a ball involved, he's down with it. He even calls the TV "beec-ball" because, as far as he's concerned there is only one thing worth turning on the TV for: sports. (His Dad may have helped cultivate this perception.) He has eagle eyes for basketball hoops and points out each one in the driveways of houses we pass when we are out in the neighborhood. In fact, on one memorable occasion we passed a house that was TOTALLY decked out for Christmas. It had lights everywhere, several inflatable lawn ornaments including a giant snowman on a motorcycle, and a huge LCD "Countdown to Christmas" display that played Christmas carols. It was something else, to say the least. We stopped in front of the house and I said, excitedly "Oliver, look at all those lights!!!" he looked at the lights, clearly unimpressed, and pointed to the garage and said "beec-ball." Sure enough...there was a hoop over the garage door. It's amazing to me to see his little personality emerge in ways that are totally surprising to me, but archetypally, universally "boy."

Oliver LOVING his first Carolina Hurricanes game