gotta dance to the music

Brendan just LOVES to dance anytime he hears music. We caught him doing some bopping on Saturday

St Patrick's Day

Brendan was wearing his green! Well on the 13th actually but we had a MOMs club day at the park and St Patrick's Day celebration. The kids played pin the gold on the rainbow, searched for gold coins, and snacked on green foods.

I tried to get a picture of Brendan as we were getting ready to leave but he didn't want to slow down long enough to pose. He was running around with everything he could find - cat toys and potatoes from the pantry.

Brendan and his bat

Brendan loves to play with the wiffle ball bat. We've been spending a lot more time playing in our yard now that the weather has been great and we have a landscaped backyard.

I decided to try out some of the settings I learned in the intro to Nikon SLRs I took at the Ritz store last week - I'm still playing with the auto settings, though I have a lighting and aperture classes in a few weeks so I'll wait for manual modes until then. Brendan was more interested in playing with his bat and running around the yard instead of posing for the camera.

14 months

I'm a little late with this post but I had some blogger technical difficulties and Brendan doesn't have a 14 month birthday in February.

what he's up to:

• He continues to be a very active kid, non-stop running around
• He loves to be outside - playing in the grass with the soccer ball, playing in the sand, going to the playground, and going for wagon rides. He goes down the slide by himself now and bursts out in giggles when he gets to the bottom
• He has learned to walk backwards
• He's becoming a little helper. He's really good at putting away his toys when we tell him it clean-up time. He will also hand you his clothes when we're hanging them up in the closet or when I'm dusting he likes to have his own cloth to help.
• Lots of babbling and some words - his new words are meow and balloon. We also started to teach him sign languge using the Signing Time videos. He loves to watch the videos and dance to the music and has learned some signs: dog, fish, more, milk, eat.
• He's doing much better at eating and is starting to eat a little bit more variety - the new food he has most recently added is chicken. Still not a fan of vegetable, cheese, or other meats. His favorite food is bananas. He's also getting better with using a spoon but it helps if the food sticks to the spoon like oatmeal - the yogurt ends up flying around the room as the moves the spoon towards his mouth.
• He loves to dance - he'll rock on his feet or spin in circles. He also loves to pound on drums. We're still going to Music Together every Saturday and he's really learned a lot since we started the class - he'll 'sing' to the songs, pound on the floor to the beat and his dancing has become much more animated.

playgroup

Last Friday we had our final playgroup before the MOMS club split - our club has become too large so it is splitting into 2 groups. We will miss seeing Madison, Blake, CJ and Alec every Friday.

snow in AZ?

Not snow, but hail. Last Wednesday evening we got hit with a fast moving storm with lots of rain and hail. Brendan liked the storm because it was so loud.

at play:

Happy Valentine's Day

Sunday morning at the park

Sunday morning we went over to a local park to see the birds and play on the playground.

Visit with Grandpa Frank

Brendan got to meet another Grandpa this past week, Grandpa Frank. Now he has et all of his grandparents - Brendan is extra spoiled by having 4 grandmas and 3 grandpas. Frank also helped out a lot around the house putting together a shed, build a half wall in the playroom and lots of child proofing projects.

Nicole's Birthday

Nicole turned 21 on January 27th. I made a cake for her in her favorite color, PINK. We took this cake with us to bunco.