Challenging times

Lately I have been trying to come up with things for Gregory to do throughout a day. He's only allowed one movie a day because he'd watch them all day long if we'd let him. I think there are more stimulating things out there for him to do other than sit in front of the tv.

So I have been on a quest to find those things. Here's what I've come up with so far...do you have any other ideas?

• play in the leaves (and there are tons of them in our yard!)
• play in his sandbox (but it's getting to cold for this one much longer)
• play with playdough
• help me bake something
• coloring
• playing on the computer (at playhousedisney.com)

I am sure there are other things we do, but for right now, I can't think of them. One of these days we'll try finger painting, just not right now :-)

Yesterday I painted Gregory's hand, so we could make his handprint on paper for my mom. He thought that was pretty neat...to have paint on his hands and when we ask him where his handprint is he points to the papers that were on the fridge to dry.

Yesterday Gregory also go to play with playdough for the first time at home. This was a fun time and it shows that he is growing up.

Tomorrow is MOPS in the morning and then Gregory has his 18 month check up in the afternoon, so I'll post more tomorrow.