Tot School

Our week started off sorta slow this week, I was a bit off my rocker in the Mommy department. I wasn’t feeling as motivated to be a great mom until about Wednesday! Sometimes I wonder if any of you feel that way and if you realize I am that way. I think sometimes blogs can make us “appear” better than we are, or as if we have it ALL together. Just in case there was ever any question, I do NOT have it ALL together, not even a large part of it! Ha ha, I just don’t write much about that part and I certainly don’t have any photos to share of me losing it with my precious angels.

Anyhow, I finally got going with the be a good mom part and began to offer wonderful opportunities to my children 😉 Here’s K writing with our popular Cars book (a great deal from TJ Maxx or somewhere like that). He told me he drew a circle, I was pretty excited because it sort of looks like a circle!
Then I was busy doing dishes or something and I hear a racket in the schoolroom. I went in and found this…
He had opened one of our cabinets and gotten out the tot-school supplies he needed. He opened every little box stored in there and was entertaining himself for the longest time. Then we played bowling together…
I loved it when he stuck all of the cubes on his fingers and began to count (you know-1, 4, 8, 10…)We went to work on our ABC notebook and I gave him his next page and he demanded that he be given the page with “Liam” on it. We did this page last week, but he wanted to color Liam some more, so we did…Then we worked on Ll one last time with our Hands-On Learning: Match, Trace and Write the Alphabet MatsI love this photo, he was going CRAZY scribbling with the pen.And it wouldn’t be a tot-school week for us without this favorite toy coming down…I got real in “good mom” gear on this day, bringing them outside for some outdoor tot school. First with blocks…And then a bit of picnic reading…While outside K found his first rock–you know the special rock, the one you just have to put in your pocket and show to everyone. Of course his new Cars Tot-Book was a big part of our week too. If you haven’t seen my post about the Tot-Books, you can read that here.

Our final tot-school activity was playing with straws/stirring sticks/popsicle sticks and water bottles.
Again, he goes for the toes…

And I know this isn’t really tot-school but I had to share his 2 yr portraits that I finally took! For any of you that don’t know, I was a children’s photographer for 3 years before moving to Philly, but taking photos of this little guy is my worst nightmare! I was SOOO excited to get these…

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