Discovering Nature

Since Ivan has started walking, he become quite intrigued by the outdoors. As soon as he see someone open the porch door, he materializes in front of it, regardless of where he just was or what he was doing......and throws a temper tantrum if he's not allowed out.

He loves to be on the porch. And once on the porch he make a beeline for the door to go out in the back yard.

In the back yard, he likes to sit under the holly tree, and poke the little red holly berries. He's fascinated by them.

We also take him up to the flowers to smell them. He thinks that's funny.

When we're out walking in the park, he goes to dandelions and touch them. He also thinks it's funny when we blow danelion seeds. He tries to blow them himself as well.

On our porch, two other fascinating things are:
- there is a "hole" in the brick facade of our house. He likes to take my finger and stick it in the hole. (He seems to be fascinated by holes in general -- ie things to stick his fingers into -- such as the hole previous owners drilled on our hardwood floors to pass wiring through the floorboards)
- getting things out of the recycling bin (which, of course, I try to stop because it's kind of gross)