March 22 - Pint-sized Picasso

So today we spent a good part of the afternoon outside enjoying the beautiful spring day. I thought we would give your platter you started last week another go to see if you would get a little more paint on the plate. I gathered everything and tried to make it as appealing as possible...

You humored me for a moment...and pushed some of the paint around the plate...

You tasted it...

Ultimately after much cajoling, we did get some more on the platter, but you have not yet made the connection between the colored stuff and pushing it around the desired paint surface. You find the bottles the paint comes in fascinating however as well as putting paint on anything other than what in the intended target.

I have to take a moment to acknowledge how much in love I am with these little man feet...oh how I love those toes!!!

But the most important part was you were having fun!

Your masterpiece...

Once you were covered in paint, it seemed a logical segue to finally fill our neglected fountains in the backyard. It seems so long ago that you and I sat by this fountain talking about how much fun we were going to have in this backyard. You so loved listening to the fountain when you were a itty bitty newborn. But, I digress...You were quite the helper today holding the hose...and then you figured out what the water stream does when you shake it around and you were hooked. Once the fountains were full I let you go at it...and you moved the water stream all over....

Back and forth...over your head and around the yard....You see where this is heading, right?

You were fascinated...

And studied the water stream very closely and carefully...and how you could manipulate it...I found myself wondering if that would help with potty training...but realized I was a bit ahead of myself...

And then it happened...you cut the arc of the stream a bit too close...

And we were done...