Arthur just turned fifteen months old and he's on the move!
He loves tea parties, bath toys, swimming pools, splash pads, water tables, scarf dancing, sand boxes, carousels, trains, airplanes, drums, ball pits, climbing up slides, and anything stick-like, from swords to empty gift wrap tubes.
He also loves Village Drum Circle: Drum! Play! Love!, the music class he takes through the Burbank Recreation Center. He's the youngest in the class but he keeps pace with everyone else, particularly when he's engaged in scarf dancing, his very favorite activity.
At library story time:
Having a tea party with Genevieve and Celestine:
One of my proudest parenting moments: It was so hot recently that I took Arthur to a mall play area just to be somewhere air conditioned. Of course, I wasn't the only mother who had that idea, and so the place was packed, mostly with much older kids between the ages of six and ten. I sat next to two teenage boys who had brought their younger sister to play there and overheard them talking.
"They call this place the Fun Zone," one of them said, "but I think every kid in here has been crying. Except that one little dude in the red polo shirt. Look at him go! He just goes for it, he's not scared of anything!" and so on.
Naturally, Arthur was the little dude in the red polo shirt.
Playing music and dancing with his sister (the photos are all blurry because he wouldn't stay still):
Playing with train tables at Barnes and Noble and Peekaboo Playland:
Drawing with crayons (and occasionally eating them):
Ready to go to bed, with his blanket and his sleep rabbit:
I just signed him up for the same type of "pre-preschool" Beatrice did at his age, I can't wait to see him in action there.
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