This week we made fingerpaint. Monkey and Bug loved helping me pour in and mix the ingredients and choose the colors. (They noted that "it was like making food, but paint not food.") Next we took our containers of paint to the garden tub upstairs and turned it into a colorful masterpiece! Monkey loved this activity! Bug enjoyed enjoyed it for a little while, then asked (very urgently) to get out and be cleaned up, because (oh, the horror!) she was getting messy. Since I stripped the girls first, this made for super easy clean up. Goose was asleep for this, but since the paint is actually safe to eat, we'll get her involved next time.
We got a shoebox to fill from church that's due back this Sunday. So, this week we went to the dollar store, and Monkey and Bug got to choose gifts for "a little girl just their size whose Mommy and Daddy couldn't buy her presents." This also turned out to be a practice in math skills ("Yes, that's a neat gift, but will that 4-foot-long, plastic crayon fit in her Christmas box?" "Is it full yet? Do we have room for another toy?") Goose chose to sleep through this activity too.
Words!
Goose is slowly building her vocabulary. The word list now includes: Mama, Dada, yeah, and nana (as in banana. Sorry, Nana, I'm sure your name will come later). She also shakes her head "no" pretty emphatically.
Library Day
This week we went to the main library, so we actually stuck around for storytime. The theme this week was dinosaurs, and Monkey and Bug got to make paper, stand-alone dinos. Monkey and Bug really like this libray because it has a puppet theater inside and a playground outside. (The downside of this library is that it's bigger and more crowded, so they and Goose can't have the freedom to wander that they enjoy at the little branch library.)
Books we checked out this week:
- Giraffes
- Berenstein Bear's Nursery Tales ("Goldilocks and the Three Bears," "The Little Red Hen," and "The Gingerbread Man")
- We're Going on a Bear Hunt
- Max the Music Maker
- How Long Is It?
- Why We Have Thanksgiving
- Yoga Bear (we actually renewed this one; it's a book of yoga positions for kids that we've really been enjoying doing)
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