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{Maternity Leave}

January 30, 2011

I haven’t posted much work in, well, awhile because of this, Otto Augustus born January 17th at 4:23pm 9lbs. 1 oz., 22 inches Yes, he’s a big baby and he was eleven (11!) days late. But he’s here and we’re loving on him. And then, this little guy (or rather now, big brother) had surgery [...]

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Tot School

October 10, 2010

Joey is 22 months. We’ve been learning about the senses in Tot School this month. Here is the tray from our introductory lesson: We’re also learning a song called Five Senses (to the tune of Where’s Thumbkin?) that I found here. It’s simple and repetitive, so he’s learning all the senses quickly. The first sense [...]

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Tot School

September 26, 2010

Joey is 22 months. I don’t have many pictures to show for this week, funny thing is I thought I take more than this. Oh, well. This is one of our new works from last week. It’s an opening and closing work. I found this cute little treasure chest at Hobby Lobby and filled it [...]

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Friday Funnies

September 24, 2010

Sometimes naptime at our house is a fight. I’m not sure what he was waiting for but it was too cute to not take a picture. Yes…crazy, I know. This is pretty much everything in his room plus a few items from his closet. We now have a new rule: Whatever goes over the gate [...]

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Tot School

September 19, 2010

Joey is 22 months. This is a nesting work with a plain Russian doll set I found at Hobby Lobby. There are six altogether, but I decided to just start with the largest three until he gets the hang of it. He does pretty well, except sometimes he puts a doll in upside and it [...]

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Friday Funnies

September 17, 2010

So Monday morning while I was attending the glorious task of cleaning the bathroom Joey was playing with his kitchen in the kitchen. Then I heard a rustling noise and asked him what he was playing with. He said a bag. And I went back to my cleaning, when I heard some more noise and [...]

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Tot School

September 13, 2010

I’ve been reading and enjoying Tot School over at Carisa’s 1+1+1=1 blog for awhile and–finally–remembered to take pictures this week so I could link-up. Joey is {almost} 22 months. We’re working on learning the names of the numbers and their quantity. Coloring is a new favorite activity and he’s been doing a good job of [...]

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Theme: Transportation

March 3, 2010

Our monthly theme in January/February was transportation. I had a lot of fun with this theme, though it was hard to create Montessori style “work” pertaining to planes, trains, and automobiles. What Joey did do was gaining familiarity with the types of transportation, beginning to retrieve objects by name, and discovering how wheels work (no [...]

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Let Them Fall

March 2, 2010

Let them fall. Let them struggle. Let them figure it out. Keep them safe, but don’t always be so ready to give a hand. Let them try.

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We’re not gone, just busy…

November 1, 2009

October is gone and it went by so fast! We’ve been home, but busy and preoccupied. I’m glad I didn’t choose to do a theme for October, because I doubt we would have gotten to it anyway. We had three weeks back to back where our normal schedule was interrupted, mostly for good and enjoyable [...]

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Shelf Work: 3rd Week of October

October 12, 2009

After looking a bit bare the last week or so, I added a few new works and made adjustments to both shelves. The one in Joey’s room has been neglected for quite awhile. Here’s what we’ve got: Even after presenting the Matching Pairs work multiple times to Joey, he still doesn’t seem quite ready for [...]

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