Lovin' our Florida weather!

My little mischief-maker...climbing on the sand table and oh, so happy about it!  :)

Doesn't he look like such a big boy here?  Saying "Cheese!" of course!

My handsome boy...

Best buds...when they're not after one another!  :)

I decided to make art time a little more purposeful for Bear Cub.  Before, when I would just set down paper and his markers or crayons, he'd do a little scribbling, and then start creating one of his famous "trains" with the coloring tools.  It was driving me crazy!  So yesterday I decided to cut shapes out of construction paper and let him glue them together to make a picture, then add color with one marker at a time.  Yesterday, he created some pretty neat pictures of a sailboat and a train.  Today's creation (inspired by our outside art time) was a tree with a squirrel in it.  He was SO proud because he cut out what he considered the "tail" of the squirrel.  He's very careful with his gluing and seems to know where to place the pieces to make the picture.  He's been more focused and wants to do more, so I think he likes it!  Of course, he can still do his scribble-scrabbling at times (I'm not trying to control his artistic endeavours totally) but I was so happy to see him intent on his work and then to be so PROUD of it.  :)  We'll see how long this little activity keeps his interest!