Picasso?

Paxton loves to paint...what kid doesn't like to make a mess, right?!  I'll pour paint onto paper plates, and once he's used it all up, he'll ask me for more of a specific color.  Once, he started painting all over his hair and body.  Needless to say, he went straight for a bath right after that.  He doesn't look happy in the last pic...I think the paint was drying on him and starting to crack...ouch!

Fascination with Shoes Continues...

You may recall a post from last year referring to Paxton's shoe fascination.  Well, in case you were wondering, the fascination lives on.  Oh dear!

He loves all types of shoes, especially my high heels...OH DEAR! ;-)

Here are a few clips of him walking around in various shoes.  In the first one, Alan gets verbal consent from Paxton saying that yes it's okay to show the video to future dates.  Nice!

 

Hunting for Eggs

Alan and I were in Amsterdam this year for Easter, but we wanted to make sure Paxton got to experience an Easter Egg hunt as well as taking a picture with some bunnies.

A week before Easter, our friend Haley and her son invited us to an egg hunt put on by a mother's group she belongs to.  To get ready for it, Paxton and I went shopping for a fun basket.  He chose a football basket, of all things.  The funny thing is he thought it was a real ball, so he kept throwing it out of the shopping cart!  He had a great time hunting for eggs.  He would go find an egg, pick it up, and open it right then and there.  I tried to tell him we'd open them all later, and he needed to go search for more before they were all gone.  He insisted on opening each one though, so in the end, he ended up with about six eggs...he didn't care though.  So, at the end, he wanted me to open all of his candy so he could eat it.  It was a chocolaty mess, but he loved it!

Since Paxton was deathly afraid of meeting Santa Claus last year, we thought that sitting him in the lap of a big fake bunny would just be cruel.  So, we found an alternative way to capture a cute Easter picture this year.  One of the malls near us had a thing where you can take a picture with real bunnies.  Paxton loves animals, so this was perfect!  We sat him down next to the bunnies and he was thrilled, although he didn't really pet them without us showing him it was okay.  Maybe he didn't realize they were real since these bunnies barely moved (not sure how they get them to stay so still...I'd like to think they were just really tired).  The photographer picked one up and put it on Pax's back before taking the picture.  He thought that was pretty cool.

More pictures from Paxton's Easter Egg hunt can be found here