Apple week   Baby L is 16 months    Tot Basket: V-Tech Learning the Alphabet Apple    This toy has a number of settings, some are defintely for the older preschool set. At 16 months, her favorite mode is “music”; when she pushes any of the letters it launches a different instrumental, generally toddler faves. She also […]
 The theme this week is Transportation / Things That Go Baby L was quite sick earlier in the week and still runny nosed and fussy today. I got hit hard with her cold halfway through the week, so once again, things were cut a little short, and my documentation is less than ideal. Baby […]
 Not really a “theme” this week, except I guess “basics” – the alphabet in general, numbers, colors and shapes. Baby L is 15.5 months I had *so* much going on with the volunteer coordination job for Kidlet’s school (I had to teach 2 training sessions, and spent a lot of time prepping for that) […]
 I should mention that while I pick a theme for the week, that doesn’t mean we aren’t talking about that topic at other times. I just like having a theme to help me pick the toys and activities for the week. We won’t suddenly stop trying to teach Baby L about her body parts […]
This week I used gardens (flowers and bugs mostly) as a very general theme this week. Baby L is 15 months Tot Basket: Alex Little Hands Stack a Puzzle – Garden  She really liked stacking these. They are nice and fat and easy to hold and were fairly easy for her to get into place. […]
This week we turned to farm and farm animals for inspiration. Baby L is 15 months I still haven’t found any nice trays, so I continue to use some inexpensive plastic baskets that I found at Targets Dollar Spot as my “tot trays”. Tot Basket: Farm Animals & Barn. I dug out a bunch of farm […]
Baby L’s tot “school” this week is focused on farm and farm animals, so for WFLW, I made pigs. Ham and cheese on whole wheat, corn and peaches. For baby L, I popped another slice of bread on top of the pig, glued it with a little cream cheese and quartered it. She had smaller […]
We  joined my SiL and her 2 kids at Oaks Park today. Twice a week they open at 9:30 (instead of noon) for just the 0-6 crowd. They only man the kiddie rides, and I guess after the 2 hours they have a little snack time, although we didn’t stay for that as Baby L needed […]
This week many of our activities were inspired by food, as I am working with her older brother on food groups and pyramid and nutrition, and I was able to adapt materials I had out and on hand for the younger audience. Baby L is 14.5 months Plush Food. As I posted a few days […]
I picked up a few sets of plush food sets at Ikea and have them in a basket for tot school this week, but I find there are a couple in the vegetable set that I really don’t know what they are supposed to be. I suppose my best guess on the lower one is cucumber. { Although I […]
