October wrap-up

Here are some random pics from October that I didn't include in other posts ...

Ryan's favorite position continues to be sitting upright. A few weeks ago, we had to be careful to remember to place a Boppy pillow behind him since he would topple over after just a little bit. Now, he's getting steady enough to stay upright for much longer periods of time!

Our friend Kristy gave us the idea of making a tactile alphabet binder. Ian has enjoyed working on this project over the course of a few weeks. We still have about half of the alphabet to go. The "A" was one of his favorites since he got to collect the acorns all by himself from our front yard. Ian LOVES using glue.

We had collected more acorns than we needed to do this project, so we used the rest of the acorns to make acorn shakers out of water bottles. We made a big one for Ian and a little one for Ryan. They both had fun shaking (or holding :)) them to some music.

 

Ian's fascination with letters continues. Our friend, Jenn, told us about a fun project that involved matching up lower and upper case letters on spoons. Ian had fun matching up the letters to spell TRUCK in capital letters

... and then finding the lower case letters that matched.

Ian wouldn't have the attention span yet to match up all the upper and lower case letters of the whole alphabet out of spoons, but that may be a project that we'll try in a few months. :)

Ian still ends up with his whole face covered with food from whatever meal we're eating. Sometimes, we just can't resist taking a picture of his cute but dirty face. :)

"Airplane rides" for both boys!

Ian has been very interested lately in listening to books on CD. He thinks it's very cool that he can turn the page when the little bell chimes. A couple of times, he's sat for 30 minutes, listening to book after book.

We met our friends Ms. Aliceson and Caleb at an indoor playground a few weeks ago. The ball pit was a big hit for both boys.

What a happy baby! :)