our week with zeeke

Zeeke has begun creating art! This week he drew two masterpieces, crayon on paper. Of course, like all great artists, he does his best work while standing on the paper he's drawing on and tries to eat his crayons when he's not using them. Sometime he walks around and around in circles, stopping briefly to add one or two strokes to his work and then walking off again.

Zeeke has become more and more interested in how things work:  unscrewing and rescrewing lids, putting toys together, and opening and closing containers.  He rarely crawls anymore except when looking for something on the ground and he loves to start out his day by sitting down inside an old diaper box then rocking back and forth. He now spends his entire day in the toddler room at day care and they insist he's adapting marvelously.

Saturday, we drove out to Chestnut Hill and enjoyed a lovely afternoon with Jen & Kim & and the twins. The boys had a great time playing together on the patio.

Sunday morning, we took Zeeke to the playground and ran into several families who use Zeeke's day care. It was fun talking to them and encouraging to hear how confident they all were in the staff there. That afternoon, we went to Zack's second birthday party (that is to say, the second party celebrating his first birthday) and Zeeke once again had a great time. He loved playing with other kids' toys, trying new foods, and finding new adults to flirt with.