Olympic Messy Painting Day....

Friday was the Peninsula Mommies Olympic Messy Painting Day. Grand vistas of craft paper were rolled out in the grass as hoards of aspiring young artists demonstrated their different techniques. There was a strong showing from the Post Modernism school as well as the occasional tip of the hat to Picasso and various Warhol moments.

We decided that Sequoia was far more inclined to look at the assortment of paints and application devices as a buffet, so we enrolled her as a roving art critic for the event.
As with most things, she was really good at that.

She spent most of the day hanging out with her little clique of March babies and Baby class babies. Here she is lounging with Elayne who is a few days older than Sequoia, but they treat each other as equals. This was actually one of the first times that Sequoia became fascinated with OKT ....other kids toys.

An AARP card carrying member of the clique is Brooklyn. She was in our Baby Class and is two months older than Sequoia and already sporting two new teeth (on the bottom). She thinks she is pretty special ... and she is.

Being a mom is pretty competitive stuff and the mommies in the group are always trying to trick out their kids. Here our friend Kristi is coming home from the market with a bag of new baby parts to jazz up her little March baby, Elizabeth.

As a bit of a footnote, I have recently been accused of only posting pictures of Sequoia that tend to make you believe she does not know what a crying baby looks like. As you can see in this picture of Sequoia and Nikki, Sequoia is closely acquainted with babies who cry. See - her world is not all smiles and butterfly's....