Angry Birds

The little guy loves Angry Birds. He tried teaching the baby how to play, but then got distracted and drew an angry bird on the iPad.

She thought it was pretty awesome.

Awwwwwwww

Look at what the little guy drew! It says "To Mr Dad and to Mom I love you Mom and Dad" and he even signed his name and wrote 2014 (which looks like 20041 with assorted backwardness).

I worked a bit late (we split a sick day for the little dude today), so we had a quick breakfast for dinner (omelets, biscuits, fruit). The baby and I had Nutella on our biscuits. Yum!

Hippopotamus?

"Hey Mommy, come look at this! I drew a hippopotamus!" I went over to see, and was definitely not expecting anything that looked remotely like a hippo. Well, I totally underestimated the little guy:

Holy crap! If someone said this was a hippo, you'd say
"Yeah, sure, I can see that."

We walked to the playground this afternoon to let daddy take a nap. The baby liked the swings.

She's so laid back. She's... swinglaxin'

The little guy had fun climbing on the rocks.

Look, we're in the NC piedmont... it's the best we've got!

And on the way home, we got to look at some heavy equipment. Our street is being repaved this week, so there are a bunch of construction vehicles around.

He is SO serious in this picture.

All in all, it was a very successful trip.

Feats of Strength

The little dude and I took a break from sidewalk chalk to impress our new neighbors with feats of strength speed. We took turns sprinting down the sidewalk and tagging the front door. I'm sure they can't WAIT to meet us now!

He also dressed me up as a baseball player for a rousing game of catch earlier this weekend (also outside-- Hi neighbors!).

And then in the category of "I don't even know" this is how the little guy slept last night:

Tiger Mother?

I have a confession to make. The little guy STINKS at drawing. His friends all draw people and can spend a few minutes coloring in a picture. Not the little guy-- he'll draw one half-hearted line and call it quits. I don't want to say that I've been worried about it, because that's overstating things, but I've been, um, noticing. All this to say that when I picked him up from school today, he'd drawn this:

I call this one "What a relief!"

Hooray! I was SO PROUD that I let him watch a train video before bed tonight. (Not too different from other nights, honestly.)

Can't have too much education in one day.

Meanwhile, baby girl spent some time loving on her hippopotamus.

Yum.

Mr. Specific

I drew the little stinkpot a train on the patio today. He's getting to be quite particular. He wanted a blue engine, then a white caboose, then a cargo holder, then another caboose, etc. Yikes! Here he is telling me who should go in each window.

In the caboose in the foreground (he has a limited understanding of cabooses), you can see a skirt, a skirt, and a jacket in the windows and Beau on the back porch.

And I'm Amazing (Again)

The little dude loves coloring ("I color!") and lately he's been asking us to write his name and other words. Well, I might not be able to read a book as well as The Guy, but I can draw one mean school bus around the words "SCHOOL BUS". I'm ba-ack, and my years of art classes were totally worth it!

In other news, the little guy recently started playing with his turtle stacking toy again. It's funny to see him with it because he's so much bigger now.

Copycat

I am a total copycat. His daycare teachers were tracing the little stinker's hand the other day and he was enthralled, so we did hand-tracing tonight at home.

He traced his hand AND mine.

It was a nice way to spend his last evening as a one-year-old. (Unbelievable.)