Learning Together

One of the books we read/rowed was "How to make an apple pie and see the world".  At this stage, I'm not about to make you memorize facts about different countries or anything ridiculous like that.  We're learning about the world in general and try to broaden our horizons a little, introduce certain concepts and widen our vocabulary a bit. 

Subconsciously, or inadvertently, you have picked up bits and pieces of information about the different countries mentioned in the stories we read.  I mean, I tend to learn all kinds of things each week when we go through our different books. It is quite exhilarating :)

Artistry

Every week, after Bible Class, one of the things you look forward to is coming by and drawing on the white board. Inevitably, you will always be doing something related to the Angry Birds. :)

However, there was one week when Halloween was on your mind, what with "Pirate" being the costume of choice this year and all, that this was what you drew.

 

or better known as, "Jaxon the pirate and Cindy, traveling to a desert island, searching for treasure"

Hilarity

When we go to the library, you usually "scour" the bookshelves as well, and often get a bunch of books for me to check out along with the ones that I've gotten.

Today, one of the books you got was "The Big Fat Cow that goes Kapow"

 

You were rolling around in your bed, laughing till you could make no sound, except to laugh hysterically and say, "Mummy, it almost makes me want to pee pee!!! hahhahahahha!".

Hehehhe.

Playing Shop

A couple of weeks ago, we read "Night of the Moonjellies", and continued learning about coins. 

 

One of the accompanying books we read was "Have a Good Day Cafe", and decided that we would open our own little play store at "school".

I had set the store up while you were busy watching a video, and so you were very pleasantly surprised when I called you in, and you saw the stuff all laid out.

You loved toting around the little brown grocery bag, picking out what you wanted to "purchase", and then figuring out with me how much to pay and which coins to use.  To keep it simple, we paid for the items one by one.  When we reopen the store the next time, I'm going to concentrate just on one or two denominations  at a time.

We even managed to rope Daddy in on the adventure. :)  You had a grand time showing daddy "the ropes".

Expression

We've been trying out the "writing aid" we got recently and it is really easy to use.

I try to gently nudge you to "pinching" your pencil with thumb and index finger, without being too pushy...

We also got some chalk pastel for school, and got to use them when we read "Night of the moonjellies".

You LOVED using the chalk, and when I showed you a little bit about shading/blending, you were at it like a little pro. :)

You were so enamored that you went ahead and made a bunch more drawings, every one of which, had a story :)

Poetry in Motion

You love rhyming, and this is a short song that you came up with while I was giving you a shower.

"If I had a hammer,

I would flush it away..

So I could have a new one

Every Single Day."

Classic or WHAT.

Cars 2 Revisited

The last time you were so caught up with Cars or Cars 2 was probably 1 1/2 years ago.

Here you are, enjoying your afternoon matinee, complete with drink and popcorn, while mummy takes a nap. :)

 

At time of writing, you have watched it from beginning to end about 4 times, all seen within a week.  We also borrowed "Mater's Tall Tales" from the library, and you have been watching THAT on a daily basis :)

Happiness is Playgrounds....

Even though it tugs at the heart strings to see how fast you are growing up, but it makes me proud to see your little achievements, and how you are getting stronger and more nimble and more confident...

Just a few months ago, you would not have even contemplated attempting to climb up dubious looking steps :)

You were climbing UP the slides like a little monkey, and making me run up and down to watch you did so.

We even got to get Cindy in on the action.

The Birthday Epidemic

It all started with Pooh Bear's surprise birthday party.... and then it just snowballed into a fortnightly thing or something, where someone or other of your toys would need to have  a birthday party.

Seeing how you aren't really demanding as far as birthday party itineraries go ( You're usually pretty much happy if there's cake or cupcake ), I usually oblige and try to convince you to space them out a little.

So far we have also had

Elmo's Surprise Birthday

White Bear's Surprise Birthday

( I know, this was my attempt at not using too much icing, but still have some decoration on the cake - and it worked.. lol, you loved it )

and Moose's Not-A-Surprise Birthday

 

Little Pooh Bear Jr.'s birthday has already been scheduled to be next.

Hoy.

The Gamer

It has been about a year and a half since we've been to any "arcade" type place.  I think guilt finally set in, after denying you for so long, and it's not for the lack of you asking. :) Everytime we go by the mall, you would ask to go to Chuck E Cheese's, and if we drove by the Expo Center, you would ask to go to Prime Time.

I mean, you may not remember a lot of things from when you were 3, but you sure remember them arcades! LOL

Anyway, last Friday, after mummy had had a brief stop shopping at the Ditto's sale, we finally relented and stopped by Prime Time.

We watched the go-karts whiz by, and decided that THAT particular "ride" might have to wait till you were a little older :)

When we got inside, there was a bunch of ACU students bowling and having a pizza party.  Of course you tried to grab the first bowling ball you came across, was surprised that you couldn't budge it, and wanted to go look for one that was "more your size".

 

Of course, the main attraction was the arcade area.  There was a "little peeps" area, where we played some games, enough to redeem a bunch of little "prizes" :)

Your favorite game in the place, though, was the air hockey table. You and I played it twice :P

As we were walking out to the car, we see a couple of girls resting up, with golf clubs and balls in hand.  Daddy asked them if we could borrow their gear so that you could at least hit the ball a few times, and they were so gracious and readily handed the stuff over :)

Hopefully we won't have to wait that long again till we come back :)

I'm no Bill Nye

but that didn't stop us from doing some cool science stuff as we read "Katy and the Big Snow" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".

I had read about this on all the Pinterest boards, and was really happy that we could finally have a chance to make our Borax Crystal snow flake crystals.

We even made a snowman! :)

Storyboard

You are quite a prolific artist, and I've tried to make sure you've been able to  have materials within easy reach, so that you can express yourself that way.

 

 

You have recently, though, been incorporating more and more elaborate storylines into your drawings, which you call "levels", like in your Angry Bird games, complete with teleport portals, explosions, signage and whatnot.

It's Pumpkin Season

You 've grown up with a camera in your face just about every day, so naturally you can pose/ham it up at the drop of a hat. :)

 

 But, more often than not, it's almost like you're NOT looking at the camera on purpose, prefering to just do your thing... which is great with me, since I think candid shots capture your personality better :)

 

You were really more interested in picking out the straw from the hay bales more than hanging around and posing, but no matter :)

 

Nothing better than flinging straw into the wind once you're done with it :)