A few of Tate's favorite things

I have neglected to take many pictures lately. I'm not sure why, but I am going to try and take more again. It seems I go through phases of taking a ridiculous amount of pictures and then I go through a phase of not taking any.

I have taken a few random pictures these last couple of days though.

Tate has been having such a great time playing with all of his toys he got for his birthday. He really does love every single thing he got. Here he is standing by his Handy Manny Tool Box and his art table. He spends most of his time sitting on the floor in front of the TV stand playing with his toys.
We finally got his basketball hoop set up a couple of days ago. It's temporarily sitting in our living room, but will be moved as soon as we do some reorganizing in his bedroom so it can be moved in there. Tate has been shooting hoops constantly these last 2 days since we set it up. He is actually pretty good!
Tate is very serious about his art. Really, he LOVES art. He has been using his magnidoodle like crazy and he even has a littler one that stays in the car that he uses the entire time we're in the car driving anywhere.
And boxes...this child LOVES boxes. We had his basketball hoop box standing up by the back door to take out when we got a chance and he was thrilled to pull it over on it's side and find that it almost worked like a slide. He's funny...he'll "slide" down it (which it about a foot) and say, "WEEEEE".