Instagram Monday! And hopefully a return...

My laptop had a run in with some orange juice about a month ago and I've been trying to get it fixed so blogging had to be set aside for awhile..but hopefully I will get our month of tot school up today!

My little princess is growing so fast! She loves to get up every morning and go straight to the window to show me the "ees" (trees) and the "bi bi" (birds) and all the "vroom vrooms" (cars) passing by. She reminds me every day to take a second to look at all of the beautiful things around me.
We've also been spending most of the summer with my mom since she's on summer break. Paisley has had a blast at her Nyanya's house swimming and playing with the dogs and basically getting spoiled left and right ;)

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We had a baby playdate this week with the Princess' bestie. These two are about 4 1/2 months apart but they love to play together! They have the same sippy cup-that they have to drink out of at the same time :) And I got to rock both of them in my lap the other day. They were super sweet falling asleep together until my little princess got a bit jealous. ;) I can't wait to see what the years bring for these two sweet girls!

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I love that my princess always has a book in her hands. She is just like her mommy that way :) Her favorite is reading in the tub. None of her other bath toys are anywhere near as cool as her bath books!

Paisley got to feel the baby's first outside kicks today. It was so exciting for me and she thought it was funny. She wasn't really sure what was going on but it made her giggle. :) With all of this baby excitement going on we've been playing with baby dolls alot. She loves feeding her baby...and sometimes herself ;)

Tot school-Nature

Paisley is 13 months

I don't know about you,but my little girl LOVES being outside! She loves trees, which she calls "ees!" She loves flowers,she loves everything about plants. So we learned about plants this week!

We started off our week by going out in the yard and picking a little bit of everything we could find. She thought this was a blast! We had a few different kinds of leaves, some grass,flowers...anything that was plant like.

Then we put potting soil in Paisleys wagon and "planted" our treasures. She had shovels to dig with and she had tons of fun playing with this.

I also bought a few pots from the dollar store and some Alyssum seeds. We planted these and tossed a few seeds outside. Then we taked about how we need to water the flowers every day.And after a few days we had these little sprouts!

We also spent alot of time reading this book. It's "Caterpillar Spring, Butterfly Summer!" It has wonderful, bright pictures and great little pop-ups. It was read quite often. :)

We also used our water colors again to paint this wooden flower. She carried around with her all day long. She was so proud when she finally got to show her daddy what she made.

 The next day she found the paint again so I printed out a coloring page for her and we painted that too. She's my little artist <3

Instagram Monday! The little things I hope to never forget :)

The last few weeks my little princess has literally carried her sock monkey everywhere! It goes with her in the car,in stores, to bed,to play..everywhere! It's adorable. She even convinced her Nyanya to buy her another sock monkey hat from Cracker Barrel.

Tot School- Animals week

         

Paisley is 13 months old

This week Paisley was really into animals. So I decided to follow her lead and make our lessons this week on animals and the different sounds they make.

We started off with these little grow your own farm animals from the Dollar Tree. She had a blast watching them grow but they were actually a pretty bad idea. As soon as we picked them up they fell apart! That was pretty disappointing but the princess didn't mind. We still got to talk about all of the different animal sounds while we watched them grow.

                                 

I also brought out watercolors and we painted our very own bird. She had so much fun with this! I showed her how to do it with just water on the paintbrush and we practiced a few times and then she painted it. Afterwards we talked how birds live in birdhouses and we put ours in its very own cage. We also talked about the noises birds make and pretended to fly like birds for awhile.

 One of her favorite things to do this week was to play Animal Hide and Seek on my phone. It's a super cute (and free) app. We also watched a few Youtube videos of different animals and sang alot of Old McDonald. :)

 I made a doghouse for her puppy and we played with that all week long! She loved putting the dog in its house and telling it "nigh nigh".

                                         Our snacks this week had to be goldfish of course!

And we finished the week off by taking a trip to the zoo with daddy!

(She wanted to pet the tiger so bad!!)

Tool of the Week:

These were awesome! They were pulled out at least twice a day and Paisley learned the sounds for a bee,chicken,dog,cat, and monkey. She also learned to hop like a frog :)

Our very first week of Tot School!

                                                   Paisley is 13 months




We had our very first week of Tot School and it was a blast! I learned so much about Paisley! She really enjoyed the structured one on one learning time and was so excited to show her daddy what she did each day when he got home.

We focused on colors for our first week.

This was our sensory bin for the week. I wanted to keep it simple since it is our first one so we used rice, lids from her Buddy Fruit pouches, and a spoon. We still need work on using a spoon so digging in the rice was great practice!

 We also tried out sorting buttons. Mommy mostly sorted while Paisley took them out and put them in her jar. This wasn't the best activity because she wanted to put them in her mouth.

                                So...we put them in the jar and shook them to make music!!

                          I also used an old snack canister and cut a hole with an exacto knife so that she could drop some of her lids in there. We said the colors every time she dropped them in and she loved the clink the lids made when the hit the bottom. :) This game was a favorite all week.

 Then we sorted our lids. She didn't really understand but she did think it was fun once she saw them sorted.

We also read tons of different books about colors this week which was probably her favorite thing we did. This little girl loves to read!!