New Routines

Well I sure didn't keep up blogging about Monkey's learning adventures very well, did I? Almost as soon as we started to get in our groove, she went to stay with out-of-state family for a long visit. Everything we had worked on flew out the window. And I had had such high hopes!

Not long after she came back, school was out for the summer. All three kiddos were home. All. Day. Long. Again I had high hopes,but in truth, I'm just lucky we survived. We did visit family, which was nice, and when we got home, we participated in the public library's summer reading program. All three kids maxed it out! They also had guest performers each week that we tried to attend. If you don't take your kids to the library, you're most likely missing out.

So now Butterfly is in kindergarten, Monkey goes to preschool, and Alligator and I are hanging out at home. He's still not walking yet and I'm not as high achieving as so many of those other blog moms. So I'm not sure what all educational things we'll get done that I can post about. I'll do my best, however! I should probably start on some Tot School or something but he's just so little yet.

I did attempt an activity with Alligator today. We sang "Mr. Sun" to which I added some motions. Then Alligator used do a dot markers on a coloring page of a sun. As I expected, he's still too little for that. He also tried to color it with some crayons. Those pesky big sisters broke them all, though, so that was a struggle, too. Every time I get a new pack of crayons to hoard and keep nice, they somehow find and destroy them. Perhaps for Alligator's sake I need to try again.