Brendan and his microphone

21 months

Today Brendan is 21 months old



What he's up to:

• talking more and more every day. He still signs but will often say the words and sign it as the same time.
• loves art projects (and getting messy)
• loves to dance, make music and play with his microphone
• loves to play outside and now that the weather is cooling down we've been spending a lot of time outside playing in the sandbox or going for walks. Brendan always needs to find a stick to take with him on his walk and we have a little collection outside the door (when we get home he has to leave them by the door).
• very friendly - says hi and bye to everyone he sees
• starting to try more foods - this week it was Mexican, tacos and taquitos
• learning his colors - if you ask him to bring you a certain color ball or monkey barrel of monkeys) he'll bring it to you
• counts to 9 though he usually skips 1 and sometimes 2 (and two used to be his favorite number)
• working on his alphabet - on good days he knows about half the letters
• first major bruise - he fell earlier this week and the playground hitting his nose on the step. He has lots of bruising on his nose and under his eyes. Nothing is broken and he's already starting to heal (though mom and dad haven't gotten over it yet).

photo post

The cake and chocolate business has been going great so its been hard to keep up with the family blog - here's a few photos to catch up.

He loves music and we caught him using my curling iron as a microphone. We've since bought him a toy microphone which he loves.

He also will turn anything into a phone - here he is talking on a remote

Checking on Sara-cat

He loves to 'read' his books

Brendan has a little tent in his room the he likes to play in or read his books (and it was an awesome Taget bargain on clearence for $7!)

Happy Labor Day

We decided to take a little day trip up to Prescott in search of cooler weather. They had a street festival going on in the main square and Brendan had a lot of fun walking around, bopping to music and seeing all the puppies.

Then we got back it was time for some coloring (Brendan's current favorite activity)