Listen to the Rain-Rainbows

More fun with the Itty-Bitty Bookworm today!  In case you aren't aware of what Itty-Bitty Bookworm is I will explain:  It is a Literature-based Preschool and Toddler Curriculum For Young Minds Everywhere.  Caden is a very active 2 year old and he loves books and loves hands on activities that are fun and challenging.  This curriculum does just that.  

Right now we are reading Listen to the Rain.  Today our lesson was about rainbows.  

Group Activity:

• Sorting Rainbow colors-  I bought Fruity O's cereal at Kroger's for 99 cents (what a great buy).  I put the Fruity O's cereal in one large bowl and had little dixie cups and labeled them with a picture and the color of that picture.  I asked Caden to put the correct color in the correct cup.  He enjoyed it at first but was more interested in pouring the cereal from one cup to the next.  Hannah was interested in eating them.  Haaa!

Creative Art:

• Cereal Rainbow- With this activity we were asked to make an arc with glue and take one color of the cereal and have them put it on the glue and continue with the other colors.  But I was searching the internet for coloring pages of rainbows and found this rainbow.  So Caden was able to place the correct color cereal on the correct color of the rainbow.  Then we used cotton balls for the clouds.

Hannah's sleeping and eating

Hannah is now 10 months old and she is still not sleeping through the night.  The weird thing is she has just been on and off her whole life (sleeping through the night).  It is not like she is waking because she is going through a growth spurt.  With Caden it was very easy to know that he had enough food during the day so I knew he did not need a bottle at night.   I would let him cry and by day 3 he slept through the night.  To this day Caden is a great sleeper.  Never wakes in the night.  With Hannah if she wakes I let her cry for a bit just to see if she will go back to sleep and if not then I will give her a bottle because she is soooooo little, she needs to eat.  She is 10 months old and only weighs 14lbs.  Little bitty thing.  So that means she is only twice her birth weight, so any chance I get to give her food I do.  But it is soooo wearing me out.  

We have tried give her a meal replacement shake for her to gain weight but she got some kind of stomach bug so we stopped.  I may start back again but she has got to get some rest.  She is also eating all table food, she will not eat any baby food.  Her top teeth are broken through so I feel a little more comfortable giving her more of a variety of table food, but just worried about what not to give so she doesn't get a stomach ache.  Any ideas for anyone?    

Cuties

The kids did a lot of cute things this week.  Hannah loves getting inside of things.  I caught her playing in a little basket.  She got in and out of it for about 20 min.  

Then Caden wanted to wash dishes with me.  He pulled the chair over to the sink and played in the water the whole time I did dishes.  He got very upset when I turned off the water.

When we went to out to the country last weekend Caden opened one of Nonnie's cabinets and found some screwdrivers and boy did he enjoy himself fixing her kitchen cabinets.

Itty Bitty Book Worm Listen to the Rain

We have been talking about wet and dry.  Other topics we have discussed are umbrellas, raindrops, clouds, sun, and the weather. This week we made clouds out of cotton balls.  Raindrops out of coffee filters.  I did not have water color paint so I used water and food coloring.  It worked just as well.  We also made a sun!   We sang a song called "What's The Weather".  

What's The Weather?

What's The Weather?

What's The Weather Everyone?

Is it windy, is it cloudy?

Is there rain or is there sun?  

Then we would go outside and check the weather.  

I also bought him a cute doggy rain coat and rain boots at a resale shop for $10.  I can't believe he actually let me put the boots on.  It was hilarious to see him walk around in boots that are 3 sizes too big.

I also posted a picture of Caden standing by a bulletin board of all of his March art.

Piggy Bank with Paw-Paw Virg

Paw-Paw Virg gave Caden some money to put in his piggy bank.  Caden got so excited!

Bluebonnet Pictures

Last weekend we went to visit Aaron's Grandma (Nonnie) in the country.  Caden loves to go to the country.  He gets to see "Big Cows" he says.  Caden loves to run around and just be a boy.  

On the way we decided to take pictures in the bluebonnets.  They actually came out good.  When we stopped Hannah was sleeping and we woke her up and Caden was just about to doze off.  So we woke of both of the kids thinking we probably wouldn't get any photos but we should just try. It all worked out great!  Caden loved running up and down the hill until he got stickers all on his hands.    

The Grocery Game

Thanks to my Aunt for introducing me to The Grocery Game.  Take a look at the site if you want to save money on groceries.  It basically finds all the deals and coupons and leads you to them in what is called Teri's list.  Last Sun. I saved $15 in coupons and $44 in Kroger savings.  A total of $59.  Supposedly I will be saving more once I get my stock pile up.  I will keep everyone posted on my grocery saving.:)  

Fun at our newly renovated Children's Museum

We had a such a nice time at our newly renovated Children's Museum with our awesome Mee-Maw.  It was very crowded, I'm sure it was because it was still spring break for others.  I was kind of disappointed in the new Totspot!  It just wasn't as colorful and hands on as the other Totspot was.  The kids enjoyed the new one so that's all that matters.  The other parts of the Museum are really neat though. 

It was so funny because when we got there all Caden wanted to do was find all the cars and line them up!  Exactly what he does at home majority of his day!  Too funny!   

Hannah enjoyed climbing up the soft little stairs in the baby area.  She loved it!  She also loved the kissing herself in the mirror!  lol  Did you see the picture of my twins!  Heeeee  How adorable if there were two of Hannah!

Diamond Kite

Instead of using tissue paper we used green and pink streamers.  

Piggy in the Puddle cup

Soooo focused!!!  

Making Mud

Remember this is still from the Itty Bitty Bookworm and goes a long with the book Piggy in the Puddle.  What we did was put some dirt in an empty juice bottle and I had Caden pour water into the dirt.  He enjoyed pouring from one container to the next.  He played for about 30-45 min.  Caden kept saying "Mud Mommy, Mud Mommy."

Big Pig Collage (Green and Pink)

I printed out a picture of pigs in grass and cut out some pink pieces of foam and green pieces of construction paper.  I had Caden find the green and pink colors on the picture with the pigs and match the color with the small pieces of paper and glue them on the picture.  So basically a matching game with pink and green.   

Piggy in the Puddle cont.

We are still on Piggy in the Puddle!  I would love to try and do at least 2 activities a day from the Itty Bitty Bookworm but we have only been able do activities 2 days a week.  Last week was very busy so I didn't get as much done as I wanted, but we had fun!  

Group Activity:

•  Is That a Pig?- I printed out pig and animal picture cards and I showed Caden them and asked if they were a pig or not.  He did a good job!  I thought he wouldn't pay attention to this activity because he is very hands on.
  
• Pigs say- This activity you put all the picture cards (animal and pig) in a bag and pull them out one by one and ask what sound does the animal make?  He loved the rooster sound!  I should have recorded him saying it and post it.  Next time!

Creative Arts:

• Pig Ear Headbands-Made a pink band to fit around his head and then cut ears and he glued them on the band.  He wore the band all day!
• Diamond Collage- In this activity I cut small and large diamonds pink and green.  I also got some stickers.  I asked him various questions:  Where is the large green diamond?  Where is the small pink diamond?  Etc.  I had alphabet stickers and I would ask him were is the letter J and so on?  He did really good with activity.  He enjoyed me quizzing him!  
• Piggy Family-We printed out 5 little pigs and I got another piece of construction paper and made a house.  I asked him who was in our family and then he got to pick out the pig that was that person.  Such as Hannah pig and then he colored the pig and got to glue the pig in the house.  I also asked him if he knew which pig was the Mommy pig, just to see if he could recognize the words on the pig.  He didn't but we talked about it anyway.  

Outside Play-

I am so loving the weather!!!  We were outside almost everyday last week!  I can't wait until Hannah can walk so she can play too.  Caden has been really into his sand box lately.  Which I am loving because we bought the 2 sand boxes at garage sales and got great buys.  One was $10 and the other was $5.  One is supposed to be a sand and water but we figured that would be too messy for just free play.