Week Eighteen: Baby Art

I've been meaning to change out the baby art I have framed in the entryway for.ev.er. But, life gets busy and suddenly it is May and you still have winter and Valentine's Day art on the wall. Whoops!

This week I decided to actually follow through with changing out the artwork, and one thing led to another. Cut to everyone elbow deep in paint.

It was fun to see how much O has changed since we last painted back in February. Back then he smashed the paint around mostly because it was noisy to hit the table and I strategically placed the paper with paint on it between his little fists and the table.

This is the 3rd tree I've had him paint. We started with a fall colors one, then a snowy one, now this one :)

This time he was clearly curious about the paint and tried to eat it. A few times. But he was also curious about the different colors I had in front of him and what happened when he smeared them together. He was very deliberate at first, just using his pointer fingers. That quickly spiraled into paint on his face, my face, the high chair, his hair, and even a little on the paper.

Smudgy baby foot & his attempt at recreating the baby foot directly to the left of it.

One of my favorite things is that I painted his foot and then stamped it on paper while O sat in his high chair. Then he grabbed the paper and leeeeeaned over and tried to do it again and again and again! Such a copy cat and smart little cookie.

 I love art projects and can't wait to do more this summer! Especially the messy ones that we can do outside and then just hose down afterwards. :)