Obie is starting to do a lot of independent play, and even let us read the paper this morning! He is enamored with books and is starting to say the words he knows in the books ('neigh' in the video).
Other things to report: Obie says about 7 words regularly these days - mama, dada, tikka (nonstop), up ('ba'), open, all done, bye bye, duck, friends' names at school, and many animal sounds (ba, neigh, moo). Language acquisition is quite a cool thing.