Lil L is 32 months. Kidlet just turned 8. A Few of Lil L’s recent activities. You can see her poor scraggly hair a bit in some of these. My daughter inherited *my* hair, which means its very thin, very fine, and tangles if you breathe on it. This is no exaggeration. No amount of […]
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 […]
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 […]
 This week I am focusing on the “buh” sound (which is one of the first 6 sounds that children usually vocalize) with Baby L, so I’ve picked activities that will afford me lots of opportunities to use B words. Baby L is 14.5 months Contact Paper Collage. The first one we tried a couple weeks ago […]
It can be overwhelming to parent at times. I want to be a great mom and give my kids as much as I can. I buy so many books, research so much on the internet, collect ideas. Sometimes it seems that I can’t even work my way through everything before my kiddo is out of […]
