Our Letter Wall

This is our Letter Wall in our dining room, it's a small wall, so I'm sure eventually our letters will go all the way around the dining room! The first letter "B" thing is already up.. we did that yesterday and it's a letter B and we stamped his thumb print all over the paper with stamping ink- then mommy drew on the thumb prints to make bees with a fine point marker! I was making their wings, their eyes and then I realized they were missing something- they didn't have smiley faces! So I added that, and now they look great!

The Top A thing is an alligator A, with white teeth that you can't really see, and then it's a picture of an apple, and I labeled it 'apple'- he says apple really good. The thing on the bottom is just a simple A outlined letter and we glued on Apple Jacks, which he loved snacking on before and after we did this project!

We signed up for tumbling and for water babies at our local YMCA last night- I'm excited, it'll get us out of the house, and we even know some people who are going to be in our classes with us already! The tumbling class will be good for him to be active- he gets so excited when he's around other kids! He loves swimming at the YMCA - and it's good for mommy too, because they doctors say I have 65 year old knees... isn't that great to hear when you aren't even 30 yet! I'll be 31 this year, so I'm sure my knees have aged to at least 67!

Yesterday Christopher got a hold of my camera- and he took some pictures, some rather unflattering ones of me... but this one is of how his toys are stored now- rather than being in his toy bin- which there are still toys in, just not as many! The top 3 bins consist of Lincoln Logs, Mr. Potato Head, a few books. The second row you can see blocks, binoculars, people & animals, a ball and musical instruments. The third row you can see a soft ball and lots and lots of mega blocks. The last row is puzzles and cars & vehicles! It doesn't always stay this organized, but it helps contain some toy items- I no longer have blocks invading my kitchen spaces!

Well, it's nap time for one little boy!

The Letter B

The letter B week

Although I'm a little slow on my planning for the letter B, I'm planning on going to the library tomorrow or the next day to pick up my new letter B books, and drop off the letter A books.

He's mastered the word "Apple," and over the weekend he learned how to say "boss" just because he was in the truck with his Uncle Jimmy and the rest of us "adults" were changing tires on vehicles. I say "adults" because although Uncle Jimmy is 21, going on 22, he likes to hang out with his favorite and only 2 year old nephew, Christopher!

So low and behold, Christopher was saying "I drive" while trying to drive daddy's truck, using the gear shaft and everything! Plus being the "boss" of all of us changing tires in the church parking lot. This was a last minute trip for all of us to head up to Iowa City, but it was a fun trip- and good eating at Texas Roadhouse - yum, yum!

I was sad I couldn't go shopping in Iowa City- lots of craft stores to go to, ya know! But Roy said he'll take me shopping when we go to Des Moines for Valentine's Day weekend- we got Grandma & Papa John to watch Christopher so we can have some 'us' time! We are spending at least one night in a hotel room and going to a Murder Mystery Dinner Theater at the Marriott! It should be a fun weekend!

Back to the Letter B!

Christopher already knows how to say these B words: bear, ball, bird, ba (for banana), back, backpack (thank you Dora!), big, Big Bird, bed, baby, etc. So B should be a fairly easy next couple of weeks!