ART!

Things have been rather busy lately... with Jack being into everything and napping less I find there are fewer hours in the day to get things done! Sorry for the missed post last week. To quickly recap, we had a great Labor Day and a fabulous three day weekend at home! Nothing too exciting - lots of grilling out and lots of relaxing around the house!
Last week storytime started back up, which was fantastic! AND Jack started swimming lessons... we're a little unsure about the swimming lessons as the last two have been instructed by a poor guy who admittedly has no idea what to do with the "little guys" so we pretty much just do our own thing... We were told today that the normal instructor will be there on Wed. so we should have a more "structured" class. Jack has still had a blast in the water and thinks it's just so wonderful to be in the giant tub with Mommy so we're definitely not complaining! It's just a little different then we expected and had heard, but then again I suppose we don't really know what it will be like until the regular instructor is back - check back next week for more details, in the meantime know that Jack is having fun with it no matter who is teaching so it's all good!
We made a trip up to the Cincinnati Art Museum over the weekend. It was a great trip! We had lunch at the museum cafe, which was in this beautiful courtyard with a really cool fountain... Jack had a blast playing in the water (with his hands only) and feeling the grass. It occurred to us while there that was probably the first time he had really been IN the grass which we thought was a little odd, but apparently true. On our self-guided museum tour we saw all sorts of wonderful painting and sculptures. The favorite, of course, being the VanGogh landscape - which was the reason for our trip. It was amazing seeing it in person... prints really do not do the actual picture justice. Being able to see the actual brush strokes and how thick the paint is along with seeing how well kept these hundred year old paintings are... it was quite the afternoon!
That about did it for our weekend - we stuck close to home the rest of the time. As I said Jack is into everything and keeping us on our toes...OH! I almost forgot to mention that at storytime last week he discovered he can climb stairs (he hasn't figured out he can do it at home thank goodness). I can't get the picture function to work this afternoon and since I didn't post any pictures last week there are a ton of new pictures on the photosite - check it out!