~Krash is currently 45.5 months old~
I am honestly amazed with how much Krash loves this Flip Along Fun book. He asks to read it often, and loves to look at it by himself! 
A little button sorting, or “feed the cars their favorite color of food” play time ;-).
This is something new for us but not new for many of you. I have gleaned many wonderful sensory ideas form many of your blogs and have finally decided to make this a part of our time! It has been on my to-do list for over a year…talk about procrastination! I plan to have a new tub each week.
This week I filled it with our jewels (they are those colored glass jewels you can get at Michael’s or Dollar Tree). I added in some bears, a few neat spoons, a cup and a tube. K is only allowed to play with this after he finishes his other school work for the day, and then only at that time. This kept it fresh and exciting and he enjoyed playing with it every day!
Lately Krash has been loving the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, so it was finally time to explore our own Tot Pack. I made this pack last year while pregnant {and sick}, for my readers, but we have never actually used it until now! We had a week full of bear books, and Brown Bear printables! You can find all links to the printables shared here on our Brown, Bear Brown Bear Tot Pack page.
Each day we began by reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear, and using our “Clink Can” {an awesome idea I got from Making Learning Fun}. I LOVE this, and so did Krash. It is a great way to easily make a story interactive, I definitely thin we will be doing this more often!
Each day he worked with a different character, in a few different ways. He made the color word with Play Doh {he used to refuse to make letters with Play Doh so I was shocked that he willingly participated!!!} 
He Dot-Painted…
He counted his number cards and practiced recognizing the numbers for the character of the day, and also practiced putting the numbers back in order.
Each day he enjoyed some free Play Doh time with the color of the day. He invented this game and we played each day! I make him balls, and we take turns rolling the balls around playing keep-away while the other person tries to trap the ball with the Play Doh ca and feed the balls to the animal. Giggles galore…he loved this!
A little size sequencing practice…
He enjoyed making some silly matches and giggling 😉
We played a real game of memory with the cards a few times also. 
He loved the shadow matching…
When we got to the end of the week, I decided to pull out everything we had left to do and we had one big Brown Bear party together! Krash enjoyed Pac Man helping him finish up his dot-paint sheets, and all of us working with the Play Doh mats together.
I was blown away with Krash when I looked over and saw what he had been working on while I was preparing snack. He had made this entire word by himself! This is the first week we have done this and he was mostly relying on me to help a lot with it. He did this on his own and I was so proud . 😉
These are the bear books we personally read {over and over again} this week, with The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear being the favorite-funny it doesn’t even actually show a bear!
We made our D is for Dinosaur, and read one of K’s favorite books Dinosaur Dinosaur!
We revisited our 10 Plagues lesson after the bad attitudes we had for family Bible time. The 2nd go around was much better and more fun!
Ladybug loves her books! I LOVE that she loves her books {the boys didn’t nearly as much as babies}. This is one of her favorites, That’s Not My Fairy…
A few of her other very favorites right now…Fisher-Price: How Big?: A Sooo Big Book, and Baby Faces. I just LOVE that she loves books! Reading to the boys when they were babies was a bit of a chore as they only ever wanted to play with and eat the books!
I am trying to give Ladybug unique {non-baby} items to explore under my close supervision. This week I decided to try bells. She loved them! She only tried to lick them a few times, but responded well when I stopped her. Plus I think the metal tastes nasty! She went wild a few times shaking the bells, putting her whole body into it!
Pac Man had the idea to tie a string to one of the bells and this created a whole new twist. It was neat to see her explore in a whole new way with the string attached.
Finally on this day, we added a metal mailbox {from our Valentine’s Day stuff} and put the bells inside for her to get out. She was HILARIOUS with this. They were loud inside of the can, and she was banging them all around. She couldn’t get her hand into the box at first and it was so cute watching her try, try again. She finally figured it out and got them all out…we did this several times!
Another day I put the bells in the yellow basket for her. She had fun figuring out how to get them out of the basket! I had fun watching her ;-).
She was still enthralled with the bell on the string. 
We also added a paper towel tube and rolled them down it together. 
Daddy got in the action another day, using the bell as encouragement for her to actual scoot forward… 
To our shock, IT WORKED!!!!! She scooted for the very first time when I snapped this photo!!! 
Later Daddy set up a little course for the ping pong ball to roll through, He was playing with Pac Man but Pac was gone for awhile, so Dad built a track for L-bug to watch, she was SO into it!
She was a lovely helper-readjusting parts of the course at every opportunity she could find! 
We have had a lot of snow lately and I just can’t muster the energy to get them all dressed, and undressed in snow gear to go outside every day. This has made for a bit of cabin fever and a bit of energy overload for Krash. Knowing he needs some intense physical activity each day, I popped in our Kick to Get Fit Jr. – For Kids and wore him out! He loved it and was adorable to watch!
My fav just had to be of Ladybug this week….Piggy Tails!!!!!
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