Monday, March 26, 2012

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

They're Growing Up!

Jamie is walking. I'm not sure we can call him a walker or a toddler yet, since it's not his primary mode of transportation, but he is taking 7-10 steps at a time now. He's confident. When he gets up from his (non) nap, I'll take some video.
Emmeline is ALL about phonics. I swear, I know I'm biased, but that girl is so smart! She wants to talk about which words rhyme, and which words start with the same letters. We've been doing some collaging (is that spelled right?). I bought teacher-bulletin board letters at the dollar store, and spent several evening decimating our magazine collection for pictures. I paste a letter to the top of a posterboard, and she picks out pictures of things that start with that letter. She then gets to glue the picture to the posterboard. It's going really well! It combines her favorite things - gluing and phonics games. She's even been spelling things with her fridge letters. She has been asking for our help, but mostly it's her thing.
Clearly, this spells "Dad"
And, obviously, this spells "mommy"