Foster and his art

Dear Crayola – thank you for creating WASHABLE Markers. Foster is really enjoying coloring more these days and this is what happened when I left him in the kitchen to brush my teeth. Yikes. But, it came off very easily – off his body, the table cloth, etc…..

Fun times and learning ones for Mommy and Daddy too.

Thomas the Train

O.k. - so my dear friend Katie Cashion has impressed upon me the need to blog more often, so I proclaim an more directed effort to blog more often!!!

John, Foster, and I ventured to visit Thomas the Train in Calera. A day out with Thomas comes once a year, and we will make it a yearly outing. Foster has a blast, got to play with other kids, rode on the train (and unbelievably sat still) :)

He was fascinated by all of the trains in the depot and wanted to climb on and in all of them. He wasn't crazy about the grown-up or teenager, that was dressed as Sir Topham Hat. He said, "I do not like that Mommy". So, that was that!

A fun time was had by all - then we tried ice cream in the car which wasn't very smart.

I go through the tunnel

Funny things kids say: While I was laying in bed this morning I had my leg propped up on the bed, so there was a space underneath. Foster looked at me and said - I go through the tunnel Mommy. Then he proceeded to climb through - underneath my leg. I guess you had to be there, but I thought he was so creative to call the space under my leg - a tunnel to crawl through!

That Way ------

In the fall, Foster started saying two words together and his first two were "that way". He would use this as he referenced which way he wanted you to go - while riding the lawn mower, in the vehicle, or while riding his scoot around car in the house.

His two words quickly developed and by Christmas he was saying many phrases, but not quite complete sentences.