Well, it has certainly been a busy couple of weeks! Earlier this month, we celebrated our niece's first birthday - it seems like just yesterday that we were waiting for her to be born and getting ready for our own baby. It was so fun to watch all of the babies at the party and observe the different personalities. While others dove right in, Brendan was a little tentative at first, hanging with me and watching the other babies move all over the floor. After a few minutes, he apparently decided that everything was ok, and crawled his way over to the activity table. He then participated in one of his current favorite games: take a basket full of things and dump them out.
Brendan is now cruising around on the furniture, and has started to contemplate stairs. He also enjoys splashing around in the bath. He's got some bath toys, but we're still using his small tub inside the big one, so we've been giving him two toys - a rubber cow, and a purple dinosaur (which he picked out at our last swim lesson). I also pulled out one of the foam letters a few weeks ago for him - the letter B (for bath, Brendan...). The letter is his favorite bath thing to grab and chew as he kicks his feet and splashes with his other hand. Nick calls Brendan's bath toys his friends when talking to him about the bath, so we have odd conversations with our almost-10-month-old about his good friend the letter B. Only in our house, I guess.
In sadder news, we were notified this week that our daycare center is going to close at the end of May. We have some ideas about what we are going to do after that point, but it was definitely not news we were expecting to hear! We are lucky that being teachers and off all summer, we're in a better position than some of the other parents, and certainly the wonderful staff that will be laid off in June.
