Wordless Wednesday ~

What?? Dont we all clean our house this way

This is the only way my floors get vacuumed/mopped. No wonder I have a sore back, geesh!

Captain Destructo!!

While Dominic was at school today I started reorganizing his room and switching around his furniture. I took all his toy bins off of his shelf and piled them into the corner while I dusted and moved the shelf to a different corner of the room. Before putting everything back on the shelves I had to go to the washroom, usually I take Lucas with me but he was sitting quietly looking at his books so I left him there. As I was in the washroom I heard crashing and banging and then some more crashing and banging.

I was gone for less then 2 minutes when I returned to this......

I guess Kim from Mom Tried It is right,  going to the washroom without an audience is overrated! lol

Tot School

Lucas is 16 months

we had an extra quiet  here Lucas hasnt been feeling too well ( I think its teething related) but here is a look at some of the things we did do....

our weather is slowly getting warmer we spent lots of time in our backyard

he loves his ride on toys!

Lucas loves to explore in Doms room this week we spent a lot of (supervised) time in there playing with his marble run set

Lucas loved this as hes been trying to get at it for months now!!

We alos played with Dominics magnetix and some other wooden blocks (I forget what they are called but they are magnetic as well)

he loves all the "big kid toys"

We also did our STart project, youcan read about it here

and we had fun doing some art with our "sparkles" 

which is really only coloured salt since I reeeeeally dont like sparkles!!

I printed these from the 1+1+1=1 website (the easter / spring tot pack)

Lucas loves them!!

I would "meow" "bark" and "oink" and he would pick up the animal that matched the noises I made he thought it was really funny : )

Thinking Warm Thoughts.....

Summer is almost here.. just a few more months and we'll be back on the beach

STart ~ My Car

This week for our STart project we read
My Car by Byron Barton

This is a very simple book with colorful pictures my son just adores it, and since he doesn't have much of an attention span (especially right now he is not feeling too well with his teething) it was perfect for us!

After we read our book I covered our table with paper and set out some paint and cars for Lucas explore. 

It didn't take long for him to get right into it

and I mean RIGHT INTO IT! LOL

Coloured Salt

Dominic and I made some coloured salt last week - to make one of these.

Today we used some more to make pictures.

Dinosaurs of course!

a BEAUTIFUL mess!

Lucas joined in on the fun too...

I put the the salt  into old prescription bottles and poked some holes in the top. This is what we use as "sparkles" most of the time - cleanup is much easier!!

Dominics picture when he was finished.

and here it is again after it dried and we shook off all the extra salt.

Tot School #8

Lucas is 16 Months

I dont have too much to share this week for Tot School, we've been spending a lot of (camera-less) time enjoying the outdoors now that our wheater has been getting nicer.

Here are some activities that we did do...

Ive been nervous about giving Lucas an activity like this since he is a little mess-montser,

but he did really well with keeping the water in the tub and he had a blast!!

He would scoop the water with the cup and pour it back into the tub and of course he had a few sips aswell : )

He also enjoyed spooning he rocks into the cup and spooning them back out.

We will definately be doing this again!

We also did our STart project for the week, you can read about it here.

We spent a lot of time playing with Lucas' ball.

He really loves this thing!!

it can bounce up to 70ft in the air so when he throws it, it bounces all over the place.

He loves to make it bounce he thinks its funny!

My little helper!

Laundry and vacuuming, I hope he still likes doing chores when he is older!! LOL

Start ~ Red is Best

Lucas is beginning to show interests in learning his colours so this week we read: Red is Best by Kathy Stinson - a really cute, fun to read all around feel good book! Its about a little girl and her love for the colour red.

and for our art project we made a red collage...

I gave him tissue paper, foam paper, pipe cleaner bits, and our sparkles.

He really liked the sparkles, he would not put them down : )

Shake! Shake! Shake!

Taa - Daa!!

Make sure to check out STart at A Mommy's Adventures for other great projects.

Tot School #7

Lucas is 15 Months

Hello other Tot Schoolers! Thanks for all the replies to my questions last week it really helped me out!  I have decided that I will be doing themes with Lucas; however I will not be starting that until he is a bit older - I'm thinking around 18months would be a good time to start.

For now we are going to continue doing our “random” activities based on what Lucas likes as well as slowly incorporating some more structured activities (like participating in STart projects) to get us into more of a "school" routine. 

What we did this week....

New on our shelf this week was this Melissa and Doug bead sequencing set. Of course Lucas couldn't match any of the control cards but he really enjoyed threading the beads on to the dowels. 

We were counting the beads as he threaded them on, he is getting really good at counting he can count to 7 now!! 

and he clapped for himself each time he completed a row : ) 

For a long time he sat threading this one bead onto the dowel 

Once he was finished with this we moved onto playing with his cars...

I picked out a few of his yellow cars and a few red cars and put them in rows to show him and sort them but he had zero interest in that! Soo we just played on his car mat.

This week we did our first STart project! You can read about it here.

I made this Tornado sensory bottle awhile ago and this week he began to show some interest in it...

I put some glitter in there as well and he likes to shake the bottle and watch the glitter float around, he calls it "no" - snow. 

Lucas loves to observe, and see how things work and then try to make them work. He has an engineers mind and loves to build stuff!  This week I found him in big brothers room playing with his marble run set. He likes to put the connector tubes together. 

He is really quite good at it

Look how concentrated he is!

and our last activity of the week was making some shamrock decorations for St.Patricks day

I drew a shamrock onto their paper and let them go at it with the glue, and some green collage materials 

My favorite photo from this week: