Hanging around the house in October!

We had been gone so many weeks away from home that it has been nice to just be at home and relax. I took Brandon to art class one Saturday at Gymboree for a preview class and he had fun and painted a lady bug and a sunflower.  It was fun but he was one of the youngest ones in the class and it was hard for him to pay attention for an entire hour.  I decided that I could do the same sort of art projects with him myself and not pay $74/month.  I went to Target and bought some finger paints, water colors, and markers as well as a pad of art paper for Brandon all for under $10.  We went outside because it was a beautiful 80 degree day and we finger painted and regular painted outside.  Brandon had a lot of fun but did not like getting his fingers dirty with the paint.  He kept saying "icky!"  He preferred using the paint brush.  Another day we tried using the watercolors.  Brandon really liked that as well.

I came down after waking up one Saturday morning to find Sean and Brandon eating cereal together

Brandon and I painting

Watercoloring!

We have a wet land area in our neighborhood that is about 400 feet from our house.  The wetland area has a pond.  There has been about 24 ducks that have been living in the wetland area that are becoming beloved pets of the neighborhood.  There is always someone it seems feeding the ducks.  Since we have discovered the ducks, Brandon loves going to feed them.  We buy special "duck" bread (cheap bread that costs under $1) for them and usually go and feed them almost everyday after we get home from work and daycare.  Brandon usually stuffs one of the pieces of bread in his mouth on the way but has a lot of fun seeing the "duckies."  Sometimes the duckies get aggressive and Brandon has to say "bad duckies." He also likes to tell the ducks "all gone duckies" when the bread is all gone.  Speaking of which, Brandon is getting much more verbal and is better much better at being able to communicate. He can say all of his body parts and point to them.  He is getting very good at identifying animals.  He can count to 3.

Our neighborhood ducks

Brandon and his "duckies!"