Peter dot painted things that start with T. Meanwhile, I put one t-t-truck on Elliot's tray for him to play with, but he kept signing more and more and more. Pretty soon his tray runneth over with trucks.
We played with our spinning tops just like in Peter's dot painting and then we all headed outside to gather leaves to make a tree. We tried to do a crayon rubbing on some tree bark, but it was kind of a flop. Note to self - the tree in our front yard does not have the type of bark conducive to rubbings. I cut our "bark" into a trunk shape and Peter glued layer upon layer of leaves onto the tree.
Doug has been serving on a federal jury for the last week, and it is scheduled to continue for most of this week as well. Tomorrow the boys and I are going downtown to meet him for lunch and see the inside of a court house.
I glanced over at Peter "drawing" on the Magna Doodle and saw that he was actually writing...quite legibly, in fact. He knew all the letters in the correct order and neatly lined them up all on his own.
Then he wanted to know how to spell Elliot and he wrote that as I told him the letters. I was surprised that Peter was so proficient at making letters without copying them from something. He really seems to have a solid mental picture of most of the letters - and he has a goofy face for the camera.
I put sushi in quotes because I'm not sure if what I made qualifies. It was made with sushi rice and rice wine vinegar, but there was no nori involved.
As you can see, Peter was skeptical and did not let it even touch his lips.
Doug outright refused to eat any because it had tuna in it.
But, Elliot and I loved it.
Elliot also discovered the cubes could be stacked.
Peter's current easy reader is called The Turtles. We have added the word "the" to the word caterpillar.
Peter practiced writing the letter T and then we all took turns finding capital and lowercase Ts hidden in a train picture and then coloring in the train.
Peter played with a shape train. He knows most of the shapes, but is still working on trapezoids and recognizing rectangles in all their forms.
Today the sensory tubs had beads and water. Peter did a lot of scooping and dumping and he practiced using strainers and a colander.
...even though I knew this pregnancy was on shaky ground from the beginning I was still hoping for my planned spring baby with a birthday nestled between the boys'. But it was not to be. We'll keep trying...maybe there will be a summer baby instead.
We are reading the book The Carrot Seed and focusing on the letter "t" and the word "the".
Peter sorted flower seeds packets from vegetable seed packets.
Elliot watched and played with our paint rollers (sans paint).
Elliot, where is your tongue?
Elliot, where is your nose?
In other news, Doug is currently at the court house serving jury duty and Peter's wall decal came for his new room. For now it is hanging over the sliding glass door.
