tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87581589100842954402024-03-20T07:15:53.247-04:00The Gooba DiariesA working mom and toddler journey through the alphabet one letter and one week at a time.Two Monkeys One Circushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06747739146155529051noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758158910084295440.post-42969111924480499612013-08-06T18:30:00.001-04:002013-08-06T18:30:10.621-04:00Cooking from the Heart<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaaURoan9K8b2BvyDY1AeIBGKq-6uav4-Vufi1zikvqmePB_UB5GEqok7remqPDNXA0-4MR8KtFwjDCzaFicby968dgW-hYLAkuxeAVDrrfMBwmAeqGXayQi9txniSRyel1SREQYhJAQ/s1600/DSC03379.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaaURoan9K8b2BvyDY1AeIBGKq-6uav4-Vufi1zikvqmePB_UB5GEqok7remqPDNXA0-4MR8KtFwjDCzaFicby968dgW-hYLAkuxeAVDrrfMBwmAeqGXayQi9txniSRyel1SREQYhJAQ/s320/DSC03379.JPG" width="320" /></a>This year has been a rough year for us. Sadly, I lost both of my beloved grandmothers only a few months apart from each other. Growing up and as an adult I was very close to both of my grandmothers. <br />
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Grandma Piccininni was famous throughout our family for her delicious food and scrumptious cakes and desserts. When used to joke when we were kids that we would need bigger clothes to go home in after we slept over he house. This summer I have started the wonderful process of sorting through her recipes into a cookbook. While entering the recipes into <a href="http://www.tastebook.com/" target="_blank">Tastebook</a> I realized I did not have any pictures for these recipes. Then I had the brilliant idea that Gooba and I would start making Grandma P's recipes and photograph them for our cookbook.<br />
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<br />Two Monkeys One Circushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06747739146155529051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758158910084295440.post-31992587047669362292013-03-13T14:31:00.000-04:002013-03-13T14:31:00.259-04:00Toddler Pizza Party<br />
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One of my fondest memories of being a kid was helping my mom and grandmothers in the kitchen. Being from a large Italian and Polish family, food was always at the center of all of our family gatherings. With the recent passing of both of my wonderful grandmothers I wanted to do a post about how I have started to share the tradition of cooking together with my daughter. One of our favorite things to make together is homemade pizza. Even though she's only 3 - we have been making food together in the kitchen since she was old enough to stand up on the chair next to the counter. It's never to early to start cooking together!</div>
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Gooba and I use the Emeril's Basic Pizza Dough Recipe for our basic dough. The recipe is for one pizza - but we usually double it.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">1 cup warm water (105 to 115 degrees F)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">1 (1/4-ounce) envelope active dry yeast</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">1 teaspoon honey</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">1 teaspoon salt</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">Yellow cornmeal, for sprinkling the baking sheet</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">Directions:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">In a large bowl, combine the water, yeast, honey, and 1 tablespoon of the olive oil, stirring to combine. Let sit until the mixture is foamy, about 5 minutes. For this part I measure the ingredients and let little Gooba pour them into the bowl.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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First, the party favors! Instead of doing the traditional gift bag at the end of the party, I decided to go with a dress up theme. I bought the fairy wings at Dollar Tree, I made the crowns from ribbon and garland that I bought at the Dollar Tree, and the necklaces are little bottles I bought online and turned into pixie dust :) The girls had a great time with dress up! <br />
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I made rice krispie treats and cut stars out of them once they were cooled. Then I melted a few mini marshmallows at a time on a plate to use as "glue." Then I stuck the pretzel rod onto the stars with the marshmallow glue. It wasn't happening without the marshmallow glue. These were a big hit!<br />
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Essentially these are just fancy chocolate covered pretzels. These were the second attempt... attempt 1 I learned that I lack the skill of melting white chocolate and little pretzels fill up with chocolate and look like blobs. SO - I used larger thin pretzels and bought red candy melts from A.C. Moore. I melted the chocolate chips first in the microwave and dipped the heads and let harden completely (on parchment or wax paper) before I melted the red candy melts in the microwave and dipped the bodies. Once they were all hardened again I took a toothpick and added the chocolate spots from the original bin of melted chocolate and used white icing for the eyes.</div>
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My little Gooba LOVES fruit - like most little kids. My original plan was to make fruit wands or rainbows on a stick - but then I thought skewers and 3 year olds were not a good combination - so I just made a fruit tray instead. For the record - fruit in January is VERY expensive!</div>
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I love this picture of Gooba in her dress up clothes dancing. I bought two CDs recently at Walmart - Disney Princess Favorites and some sort of Disney Fairies CD. We rotated through both CDs a few times. Gooba will pretty much dance to anything!<br />
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I bought two tubes of fairies at A.C. Moore and hid them around the house. Then I told all the kids that I had the fairies in a bowl before the party and that they all flew away and were hiding. Then they all went looking for the fairies and returned them to the bowl. They were FABULOUS at this - I wish I had hid them a little more sneaky!<br />
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I purchased a Secret of the Wings poster at Walmart and used my Cricut to cut out some stars out of yellow scrapbook paper and taped them to craft sticks. Then we played pin the wand on the fairy. I also filled three socks with beans and sewed them up to make beanbag eggs. I filled a green bucket with floral filler from Dollar Tree for the toss the eggs in the bird's nest game.</div>
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OK - this one was in no way fairy related, but Gooba LOVES making bracelets from pony beads and pipe cleaners - so I just bought two bags of pony beads from A.C. Moore and let the kids go crazy. We had about six kids and I found that two bags was WAY too many beads.... one bag would have been fine - but we'll use them another day - so no biggie!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Then I took a skewer and made to little holes in each one. I'll thread a ribbon through there later. I made four handprints and one paw print of our dog... LOL.</span></div>
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OK - so this is a combination of old and new. A long time ago we made the handprint jellyfish and glued on the googly eyes. Today, we painted the jelly jar. This page needs a little more - but it's a good start!<br />
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Another combination page. The watercolor J is a magic letter. I drew a J on white paper with white crayon (not as easy as it sounds!) and she painted over. Then I had her color June from The Little Einsteins - one of her favorite shows. Again - could use a little more but a great start!<br />
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One of my FAVORITES that we made today! I cut out a diamond shape out of construction paper and Gooba tore tissue paper into tiny pieces. Then she used a glue stick to glue on the tissue paper - which turned out somewhat modge-podgey looking. Super fun.<br />
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Another old and new. A long time ago we made ladybug footprints and today we made the other ladybug. I cut out the pieces and Gooba glued them together! Then we counted the dots on each side - see a little math on craft day too!<br />
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Then I added the hand and foot lobster we made when we made the footprint ladybugs. We added some leaf, lion, lemon, and lime stickers too! Then We stuck a bunch of leaves from the yard onto contact paper and stuck them on her window... also super fun!<br />
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Well I know it's not as detailed as I have been in the past, but I'm definitely catching up. Today I've been promoting our <a href="http://www.essentialetsy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Essential Etsy Blog </a>and all of our Black Friday deals as well as crafting! Lots to do - lots to do! Don't forget to come check out my etsy shop <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/GoobaGear" target="_blank">Gooba Gear</a> if you have a chance! GOOBA20 earns you 20% off this weekend. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!Two Monkeys One Circushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06747739146155529051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758158910084295440.post-25213242765328697392012-11-14T11:27:00.002-05:002012-11-14T11:27:54.206-05:00New Adventures - Essential EtsyAs many of you have read, I have recently opened a small store on etsy.com - <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/GoobaGear" target="_blank">Gooba Gear</a>. I have been making and selling clothing and accessories for toddlers, tots, and goobas ;) During my adventures on etsy I have stumbled upon a lovely group of people who are part of the team "Marketing and Promoting for Serious Sellers." I have graciously accepted the responsibility of blogging for our team! So come check us out on the <a href="http://www.essentialetsy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Essential Etsy</a> blog!<br />
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AND - I promise I will get back to blogging about my little Gooba soon! Just to give you a sample - she has started making up her own songs at dinner time - last night's was "I love Mommy and Daddy - I love Mommy and Daddy - I love Mommy and Daddy - and Chance too." AWWW! Love her too!Two Monkeys One Circushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06747739146155529051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758158910084295440.post-66277277945569434702012-10-20T17:41:00.001-04:002012-10-20T17:41:00.815-04:00the olive tree: GIVEAWAY! $15 dollar store credit~<a href="http://treeofolive.blogspot.com/2012/10/giveaway-15-dollar-store-credit.html?spref=bl">the olive tree: GIVEAWAY! $15 dollar store credit~</a>: oh hey, look another giveaway/// what's up for grabs: a $15 dollar store credit! mandatory entries: you must be a fol...Two Monkeys One Circushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06747739146155529051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758158910084295440.post-39496643001020181812012-10-04T20:57:00.002-04:002012-10-04T20:57:42.420-04:00Ever Evolving <br />
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Ok... I admit, it has been FOREVER since I have blogged. School has started and Gooba is still learning a letter a week. Her Grandparents are working with her some and we squeeze what we can in after school. Mostly my attention has been directed at my new adventure, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/GoobaGear" target="_blank">Gooba Gear</a>. I started an online store on etsy.com and have been sewing away like a crazy person. I have made my little Gooba several adorable outfits and thought it was time to share the love.<br />
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Come check us out! I'd love for you to visit my store <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/GoobaGear" target="_blank">Gooba Gear</a> or visit us on <a href="http://www.rebelmouse.com/GoobaGear" target="_blank">Rebel Mouse</a> or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/SewMomtasic" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.<br />
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In our spare time, we've been spending some nice time together when we have a chance. Taking some time to enjoy the beautiful weather<br />
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We had a wonderful day to go apple picking. We read so many good stories leading up to the event I thought Gooba was going to burst when we arrived. She was actually tall enough to reach some of the apples on the lower branches this year.<br />
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We paid for our apples by the pound and we allowed to eat as many apples as we wanted to. I'm pretty sure the orchard lost some money on Gooba this year. She ate an entire apple, including the seeds and core, and took bites our of several other apples.<br />
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We also have perfected the art of making pizza dough together, one of our favorite things to do! Gooba loves making pizza with mommy.<br />
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I promise I'll post more pictures of my Gooba and her crafts soon and update our scrapbook page. Thank you for your patience with me!<br />
<br />Two Monkeys One Circushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06747739146155529051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758158910084295440.post-87728746293096949062012-08-19T10:31:00.001-04:002012-08-19T10:38:13.476-04:00G,H,I Oh My!WOW! It's been a long time since I have posted! I guess the end of the summer just kept us busy. The closer we got to the start of school, the more inseparable my little Gooba and I got! We did keep up with our letters, though not with the same intensity as the beginning of the summer. Visiting friends and pool visit became a little more prevalent and we loved every minute.<br />
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So let's catch up to the present. I'm officially back at work as of last week. It was really hard on both of us, especially hard on little Gooba this year. I think she is at the age where she understands I have to go to work, but does not understand she cannot come too. At one point she suggested that all the kids at mommy's school should just come to our house instead. What a sweetie. But after a rocky week emotionally both of us seem to be at least a little bit back to our routine.<br />
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OK, back to preschool...here's a quick summary of at least the crafts that we have done for G,H, and I. More to come on J later since that was our first school week at Grandma's house.<br />
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Then since it's one of her personal favorite books, we read Goodnight , Gorilla. I also made her little stick puppets that match up with the animals in the story. Then we acted out the book during a little puppet show. This was a fun activity!<br />
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The we did some hardcore coloring! We colored all sorts of different sheets from different places around the web. We attempted at times to actually make a G - not too bad!<br />
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More coloring! I love this above picture of her, it cracks me up. Little Gooba hard at work!<br />
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Then we used this cute printout I found online with a giraffe and a bare tree. Gooba had to add playdoh leaves to the tree and count them. At first she was doing a really good job... <br />
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Then it turned into whatever this picture to the right is ;)<br />
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Then we did a cute giraffe lacing card that I got at Dollar Tree. The came in a 5 pack.... SUPER CUTE!<br />
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Then it was craft time. I forgot to take pictures before I put them in the scrapbook - whoops! So this is the paper plate gorilla face we made. Cute!<br />
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I drew the gum ball machine on this one and then we used finger paint and fingerprints to make the gum balls.<br />
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The giraffe head is an outline of her foot that we traced and cut out. I cut the rest out of paper and Gooba helped me glue it together. Then we used a paintbrush to paint the spots on the giraffe.<br />
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I think they came super cute!<br />
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Ok - so we slacked a little on H and I and crammed them all into one week. Oh well. And again I forgot to take any pictures until after I scapbooked. I made a capitol and a lowercase H on the paper and cut out some little hearts and Gooba glued them on top of the letters.<br />
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We also did some hippo printables. Sorry no pics.<br />
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And we made H houses. Very similar to the hearts Gooba did the glueing and I cut out the rest!<br />
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For I we tore up cotton balls and glued them on the I's and igloo like snow.<br />
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We also glued some of the ice cream capitol letter I's together. I made everything and then Gooba glued them together. We made three for some reason.<br />
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Then we did some handprint painting - one of our favorites! I drew the ice cream cone and then we printed her hand in three different colors for our three scoops of ice cream.<br />
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Well that's a quick glimpse into our last few activities before I went to work. The next posts should be interesting as we adjust our lives back to mommy at work!<br />
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<i>Please visit my Pinterest page for the origin of a lot of our crafts! Most printables were graciously borrowed from <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/" target="_blank">1+1+1=1</a>.</i><br />
<br />Two Monkeys One Circushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06747739146155529051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758158910084295440.post-61968147805068792762012-07-25T15:35:00.000-04:002012-07-25T15:35:18.177-04:00F is for Frantic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So last week, and this week, we have really dropped the ball with our summer school program. We have had a lot going on at home and just haven't had a lot of free time. Here's what we managed to pull together for week F. First we used Bendaroos to try an make some letters. This didn't go great. Gooba is just not able to manipulate the Bendaroos very well.<br />
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After we played with the firefighter cards she wore her firefighter helmet and we did some pretend play. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of this one since we were pretty into it! AFter that we ate some fish crackers and watched the Bubble Guppies episode about firefighters.<br />
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Other things we did that I didn't take a picture of were some magnet pages and some coloring pages. We also sorted and made patterns our of some flower cards. No crafts this week, booo! We might have to squeeze some f and g crafts in together so we have something for our scrapbook. I'm also behind on that! Yikes! I need to catch up on all of this stuff before school starts back up! I can't start the school year behind already!<br />
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Finally, f was for felt this week. I spent a significant amount of time making Gooba a Quiet Book. You can visit the link at the top of this page to see her book in more detail. We went away for the weekend to celebrate her great grandma's 90th birthday and I wanted her to have a nice Quiet Book to play with in the car and in the hotel when there was some down time from running around with her cousins. I'm really pleased about how well it came out considering I was rushing like crazy to get it finished.<br />
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Well there it is, our lame f week. Unfortunately I think week g might be equally awful as we try to cram as much fun possible into what's left of our summer time together. I'll keep you posted!<br />
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Ok, we actually did a ton this week, but I've been slacking a little with my blogging. My apologies in advance for this extensive post!<br />
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Our first activity was glueing blue and green pom poms to match the water and the land on this Earth map. It involved pom poms so it was a hit with little Gooba. Understanding that we live on a planet was a little bit of a complex idea for Gooba, but she was willing to go with for the sake of crafts.<br />
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We also did a little Earth coloring page and an Earth lacing card, but frankly her attention span for both of these things was too short to warrant a photo!<br />
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Then jumping back to D week a little bit we had some nice visitors in our yard. A mommy and two fawns played in our yard. They ran up and down our hill about four different times. Unfortunately Gooba was taking her nap during their visit. Extra sad for Gooba since before she went down for her nap she asked if we could see more deer. We had seen a deer crossing the road on our way home that day. Maybe next time.<br />
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This next activity was an idea I got off Pinterest. Then we drew all over a coffee filter with washable blue and green markers. When she was done scribbling we sprayed it several times with the water bottle and the marker got all smeary. Gooba liked this a whole bunch. Later we glued it onto the black paper, but apparently it wasn't quite dry enough and the glue bled through the paper. Still looks cool though.<br />
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After craft time it was time to bake some Earth muffins. I got this idea from <a href="http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/" target="_blank">No Time for Flashcards</a> but I used my own blueberry muffin recipe. We also used neon green food coloring and I think the color came pretty good. It's a little more green in person than in the picture. Either way they are delicious!<br />
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Later in the week we met up with Pretty Girl and her mom from <a href="http://www.stayathomeadventures.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Stay at Home Adventures</a> at their house. First we did some coloring sheets. Gooba was really into one of the sheets and not so much into the other. She's so finicky about when and what she feels like coloring. Such a little nut!<br />
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After craft time it was time for Pretty Girl's Mommy to pick up Bro Bro, so we got a little crazy. We played hide and seek, we had races to see who could scoot across the floor on their butt the fastest, we wrestled and tickled, we snuggled and we giggled. Super fun girls being girls!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhowp3t7KptWG989eum4zDm1AkHRVoc9Q7LNYUfMSzLf_2Hn0aPJ4rjn9UPCRvXBBr12xdttRI9JBDugnuSroaatjqZyTPRnM-lqbpXzmgV59Gr2aY-Y_tclIzMlOICrRM4a_KktlbVBow/s1600/P1050551.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhowp3t7KptWG989eum4zDm1AkHRVoc9Q7LNYUfMSzLf_2Hn0aPJ4rjn9UPCRvXBBr12xdttRI9JBDugnuSroaatjqZyTPRnM-lqbpXzmgV59Gr2aY-Y_tclIzMlOICrRM4a_KktlbVBow/s200/P1050551.JPG" width="150" /></a>Once we got home Gooba was ready for her nap, so I had a chance to finish this cute pillowcase dress I made for her. When I first tried it on her she cried and said it was "too poofy." She LOVED it once it was washed and "much less poofy." She tried to sleep in it, but mean old mommy said no. I'm psyched she likes it though. I think it's adorable on her and it only cost me $7 to make! I love me some Pinterest. The website with the tutorial to make this dress is excellent and I highly recommend it! <a href="http://www.themotherhuddle.com/tutorial-fat-quarter-pillow-case-dress/" target="_blank">The Mother Huddle</a> has some really cute ideas on her site.<br />
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Finally, during this week of "everything" I took yet another idea from Pinterest and painted some Dollar Tree frames and added some ribbon embellishments, a little hard to see in the photo, and hung them up in Gooba's room. Now we have a place to display her artwork in her room. They came super cute and she really likes them. Awww, already starting to look like such a big girl!<br />
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All in all this has been another crazy week. I was happy to get back to a little bit of sewing and crafting this week. Sometimes when we put on our "Mommy hats" we forget that there's still room on our heads for our "Self Hats." Personally I neglect myself way too much and give everything to my little girl. My new personal goal, since Gooba is getting a little older, is to take a little more time putting on my "me hat" and my "wife hat" and start attempting to regain a little bit of myself back. I owe it to my little Gooba to take good care of her Mommy :) After all, I'm the only Mommy she has!<br />
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Earth printables borrowed graciously from <a href="http://www.itsybitsylearners.com/" target="_blank">Itsy Bitsy Learners</a>Two Monkeys One Circushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06747739146155529051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758158910084295440.post-30526009469916707702012-07-09T14:42:00.001-04:002012-07-09T14:42:31.830-04:00E is for Elephant<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJw_tABkzljmsVFiZ_aEcNnjoApInG2UICUiopwRgODKHmAMxLJ5WDM5A6krnCq37i2TLwFg4HU4dbN__AMPBVFr987MbM3ZpJhQFSNkOGPnydyXuERQ2-8lP0mC7C9Ejn1O-K1fZXGQA/s1600/P1050472.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJw_tABkzljmsVFiZ_aEcNnjoApInG2UICUiopwRgODKHmAMxLJ5WDM5A6krnCq37i2TLwFg4HU4dbN__AMPBVFr987MbM3ZpJhQFSNkOGPnydyXuERQ2-8lP0mC7C9Ejn1O-K1fZXGQA/s200/P1050472.JPG" width="200" /></a> Ok so we are back to a Monday again and we got a little bit back on schedule for the first time since letter B week. This week is letter E week and we decided to start with one of Gooba's favorite animals, the elephant. The first thing we did was an old favorite activity of Gooba's, moving tiny erasers with tongs from different sized containers. At one point we did count some of the erasers, though right now Gooba can only count up to six. This has been great fine motor practice for her and she just adores picking things up with the tongs!<br />
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Since we already had the magnets out, we moved onto some magnet pages. I had two different ones, but after this one and the previous activity involving magnets, she started to lose interest. After playing with the magnets and announcing that she was not listening, I know..., I told her she would not be able to help make elephant cookies if she didn't play by mommy's rules. The picture to the left is what happened 15 seconds after I made that statement. Toddlers are such stinkers!<br />
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Next, I followed through with my promise and we made elephant cookies. We used Pillsbury sugar cookie dough and added some extra flour. I found the best way was to roll the dough almost back into it's original log form and cut of two circles for each elephant. The first circle I flattened out to make the head. The second circle I flattened out and cut into thirds. The outside two thirds became the ears and the middle became the trunk. Then I just smooshed them all together. Very important next step! I put the whole cookie sheet in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes. Then I baked them at 350 for 10-12 minutes. The second batch was much colder and did not spread out nearly as much as the first batch. Then I just used icing and sugar wafers to make the details on the face. These were a big hit, Gooba LOVES helping me in the kitchen. She also loves eating!<br />
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A little bit later we worked on some cutting. One of our kindergarten teachers at my school told me the number one thing kids can't do is cut, since all parents are terrified to give their kids scissors. This time she did better than last time. She let me help her with that first cut across the top and then I let her go for it. This is definitely a skill that needs some attention. This is also a skill that requires her to have help from mommy, something she is not a fan of. So I have found that perhaps teaching to cut involves fine motor, listening, patience, and calm. Of course, all things every toddler possesses!<br />
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Speaking of fine motor, looks how far our line drawing has come! It's actually touching the line this week. Boy, she has come a long way with this one in just a few short weeks! <br />
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Time for my favorite part... CRAFT TIME! This first one is actually one I worked out in my own little brain, as opposed to all my other ideas being stolen for around the web. The head and trunk are her footprint and the ears are her hands. Then she stuck on the eyes where I put the glue and I added the little trunk lines with marker when it was dry. So cute! I love how this one turned out.<br />
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Then since she loves having her hands and feet painted we painted her hands again to make these two cute little elephants. She added the eyes where I put the glue and I added the markers when it was dry. The original idea I saw for this was a mommy and baby elephant, but Gooba was extremely offended that I would paint my hand instead of hers, so we did two babies instead.<br />
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We did a few more things I did not take pictures of. From <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/" target="_blank">1+1+1=1</a> we used some of the Animal ABC's pages on the computer. Since we are just now drawing lines, drawing shapes is out of the question. So instead I pulled up the page on the computer and I called out the shapes and she pointed to them. We did the same for the colors page. We also used the vocabulary builder from the same set of worksheets and we talked about and answered questions about the picture of the elephants. Mostly we talked about the baby elephant. Somewhere at some point we also kind of did a lacing card, but she was a little to excitable to really pay any attention to that this morning, maybe we'll take it out again this afternoon. I also hope to take out our plastic elephants and our elephant puppet and have some creative play when she awakes from her nap. All in all, though we had some spurts on defiance and an absolute refusal to use the potty today even though we've been dry for almost a week, I still feel like we got a lot done and had a lot of fun too!<br />
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<i>Printables graciously borrowed from <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/" target="_blank">1+1+1=1</a>, <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/" target="_blank">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a>, and <a href="http://www.makinglearningfun.com/" target="_blank">Making Learning Fun</a>.</i>Two Monkeys One Circushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06747739146155529051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758158910084295440.post-11010970673046958942012-07-08T21:26:00.003-04:002012-07-09T08:41:31.126-04:00D is for Dinosaurs and Daddy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After we were done playing with the clay we moved onto capitol and lowercase D sorting. Gooba not very interested in this activity today, mostly because it paled in comparison to the clay. She sorted one of each and then was pretty much done.<br />
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Ok, here comes a proud mommy moment, I left Gooba alone to work on some magnets while I made her lunch and TADA she made the whole letter D herself with the magnets! I love watching her grow!<br />
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After magnets we worked on some patterns. Gooba was not so much interested in making patterns with these cards today, but she was all about sorting them. That counts enough for me!<br />
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Then we did a coloring page next and Gooba seemed very interested in trying to trace the letters today. Perhaps this came from her mega success tracing a D a few days earlier. She did pretty good as far as staying near the letters goes.<br />
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Then we had another success. She traced a capitol D AGAIN! I'm so proud of her, she is really improving her control.<br />
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The next day we worked on using some dot markers to trace a capitol and lowercase D. She went crazy again with the bingo marker and started coloring the paper. Hand control is growing, but not self control. I guess I can't expect too much from a two and a half year old!<br />
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After using the bingo marker we looked at a bunch of pictures on the computer for Daddy day. I pulled up some animal family pictures and had her point out which ones were the Daddy. This is perhaps one of her most favorite activities, she is constantly classifying things into family groups. Her favorites are the ones involving babies.<br />
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Next we did this really cool activity I saw on <a href="http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/" target="_blank">No Time for Flashcards</a> called magic letters. I used white crayon to draw a capitol and lowercase D on half sheets of paper. Then Gooba used watercolors to color over the paper. The watercolors don't paint the white crayon so voila.... magic letter D's showed up on her paper. She was less impressed with this activity than I was, but she enjoyed the painting aspect of the whole thing.<br />
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So this week we left out several things again that we had planned, but we had a blast nonetheless! I can't believe next week is already week E. The summer is flying by and we are living up every minute of it. Also today we broke ground on Gooba's under the deck playhouse.... hoping that will be a really fun space for our little girl to grow up.<br />
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<i>Printables graciously borrowed from <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/" target="_blank">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a> and <a href="http://www.2teachingmommies.com/" target="_blank">2 Teaching Mommies</a>.</i>Two Monkeys One Circushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06747739146155529051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758158910084295440.post-39384732851447985632012-07-03T21:16:00.000-04:002012-07-03T21:21:17.977-04:00D is for Ducks, Daffodils, Daisies, and Derecho<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This next post is a combination of two days. Things have been a little crazy around here after Friday night's "derecho" storm, which took out the power to our entire region. We luckily had power, but our restaurant did not for two and a half days. Some people will unfortunately have to wait a whole week before they regain electricity. Needless to say, things have again been a little crazy. I'm starting to sense a theme here, an unwanted theme, but a theme nonetheless. <br />
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So despite the derecho storm we continued on letter D and some ducks. We started with some coloring pages. This first page she mostly colored in the lowercase d.<br />
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These next pictures were a very similar sheet with a very similar result. She was in love with coloring in that lowercase d!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcIKoETmXTb7qiExbqzmrAhqJ7pwmXnDP019S-fW_uUwR4Cbcxtvd-NRM-7q1FtviL43Oss8fTM-uvOXjVi4C1ajhjKUSCV9pZe32oBGvpT2V9DPjfIg_OLxJ6R_xdGMGBGf2fHYbJ1mg/s1600/P1050436.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcIKoETmXTb7qiExbqzmrAhqJ7pwmXnDP019S-fW_uUwR4Cbcxtvd-NRM-7q1FtviL43Oss8fTM-uvOXjVi4C1ajhjKUSCV9pZe32oBGvpT2V9DPjfIg_OLxJ6R_xdGMGBGf2fHYbJ1mg/s200/P1050436.JPG" width="200" /></a>Then came the proud mommy/teacher moment. There was no mommy help on this one. She actually drew a capitol D all by herself!! Whoohoo! Awwww I was so proud of her! Gooba however was like "yeah I did that." She cracks me up.<br />
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Then it was craft time! I really enjoy how much Gooba is getting into crafts, mostly since I love crafts and this is a great excuse for me to make them. So I got these ideas from Pinterest, but I tweaked them a little bit. I cut out the pieces and Gooba helped me glue them on the paper. As you can tell, I gave her a little more liberty with the glue this week.<br />
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To the left is the final product for the daisy D. Our petals got a little out of control and we went back and fixed them. To the right is our finished daffodil. We glued our finger painted leaves and stem onto the paper and added a cut out of a semi-star to the top. Then we glued a muffin wrapper to the center of the flower. All in all a pretty good start to D week! Looking forward to some Dogs, Dinosaurs, and Daddy!<br />
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Yesterday we managed to get a few things done in the morning while I was getting ready for our family to come over and play. First we used a bingo marker to mark the circles on a letter C. This went ok. Gooba did a combination dot and draw on the paper.<br />
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Next we used dry erase markers to color this caterpillar. I tried with the blue marker to show her to draw in the circles. She gradually got a little better with her control on this one. I enjoy how she will concentrate really hard for about 30 seconds and then just yell out DRAW! and scribble all over the paper. She cracks me up!<br />
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Next we colored a similar sheet with the letter C and a picture of a caterpillar. Gooba was done concentrating on her coloring at this point and just scribbled over the while paper. But she enjoyed herself, which is all that matters!<br />
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Then we, for some reason, worked more on marker control and tried to draw a line from the campers to the tent. She seemed to at least get the concept on this one this time. She was actually able to demonstrate some sort of marker control this time. Oh how I love to see her grow!<br />
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After the writing control practice to attempted to draw some letters. I drew one to demonstrate and she drew a little scribble and started cheering "I did it!" So I clapped and she was done after that.<br />
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I love this one! I handed her the magnets and the magnet page, on the wrong side of the magnet board - which I am just now noticing as I'm typing, and I turned away to wipe off the previous worksheet. When I looked back she had started putting all the magnets on the circles without me even telling her what we were doing! She does do better when I don't give her directions!<br />
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Next was Gooba's best activity - size sorting. As usual she was awesome at this activity. No problems here, large to small or small to large.<br />
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Next we worked on some patterns. I find that when she has a longer pattern to finish, there is no problem. She has a little trouble with a short pattern. Needless to say, she had no problems with these patterns today.<br />
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She loved the next activity, which she has refused to do in the past. I gave her a pattern card and a bunch of little cards and let her just go crazy. She was very interested in the flashlights! She actually played this for quite some time and even relocated it to the ottoman for awhile.<br />
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After that it was time for some real fun! We set up a mini water park/campground extravaganza in the front yard. We had a slip and slide which the toddlers LOVED!<br />
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We set up a tent for a little bit of shade and to go with our camping theme. Gooba very much loved having the tent set up. It became some sort of obstacle course where they would run into the tent, through the slip and slide, and then dive into the baby pool. Now that's some crazy cousin fun! We also had some oven baked smores a little later for a snack to complete our camping theme. All in all another wonderful day. <br />
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<i>Printables borrowed graciously from <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/">1+1+1=1</a> and <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a>.</i><br />
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After Story Time we went to the park with our cousins - C for cousins! After the park and lunch with Daddy we went home for a little bit. Here's what we squeezed in during that little bit of time before going mini golfing and out for chicken and waffles! <br />
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First we read Camilla the Cupcake Fairy while we were going potty. Then we read If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, a book we took out at the library. I found a super cute song on <a href="http://www.spelloutloud.com/">Spell Out Loud</a> that matches up with the book. We sang the song and put the cute little cupcakes into the cute little cat can I made with the printables from <a href="http://www.spelloutloud.com/">Spell Out Loud</a>. We did this activity many times and counted the cupcakes. We also counted the cupcakes on the paper.<br />
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After we played with the cat and the cupcakes we painted a bottom and a top of a cupcake I cut out of construction paper. We just painted it with washable paint and a brush. When it was dry we glued the cupcake together and a put a cherry on the top. We also added both letter C's onto our background paper.<br />
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So again today was kind of a lame learning day, but a super fun day with our family. Tomorrow I expect more of the same since we are starting our day with gymnastics and then meeting our family at the zoo. Yikes, having visitors makes me exhausted, and makes our house messy since we haven't been there! I wouldn't have it any other way, family is so important and special to us we are loving every minute of having them here!<br />Two Monkeys One Circushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06747739146155529051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758158910084295440.post-932058566810820032012-06-26T09:43:00.001-04:002012-06-29T22:20:29.442-04:00C is for Crab<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So we finally made it to C week! This week is going to be a hectic one! Not only was C for crab yesterday, but C was also for... COUSINS!! Gooba's cousins and my sister and brother-in-law are visiting from Connecticut! Needless to say we have alot of activities planned this week, so we're going to try to squeeze in as much letter C as we can. Yesterday we started out day with a trip to splash park! Super fun for all the kids. We also managed to fill in a few other activities before and after. </div>
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We managed to fit in some "heads and tooshies" matching cards with little crabs on them. Gooba is really getting the knack of this game, no problems for her today!<br />
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After our crabby matching game we made this crab craft. First, I cut out a letter C and some shapes. Then Gooba glued them (with help) onto the blue paper and added her favorite googly eyes to make this cute letter C crab craft<br />
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The next craft we made is one of my favorites! First I cut some yellow paper and glued it on the blue paper to look like sand. Next I painted her hands, one at a time, with red paint and pressed them onto the paper with her thumbs pointed up. After her handprints were dry I drew on the smile and Gooba glued on the googly eyes.</div>
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Today was a wonderful summer day! We started our day with an enormous breakfast, a quick trip to Walmart for some pool toys, and then a wonderful trip to the pool with Gogo and Pop. After splashing and "swimming" around the pool we went to Daddy's restaurant for a visit and some lunch. Then we got home and snuggled down for a little nap and some TV time in the big bed with Mommy. Ahhhhh lazy summer days!<br />
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Once we were done being lazy Gooba actually asked if we could play with some cards...awww yeah! So since today was going to be ballerina day anyways which I was happy to postpone, we busted some stuff out and got a few things done! First we started with pattern cards which she rocked yesterday and was still pretty awesome at it today. These were a bit trickier, but still fun.<br />
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Next we did some coloring. Gooba loves coloring, but is very much a scribbler. She also loves to use the black and brown crayon or marker. First we colored a B is for ballerina coloring page.<br />
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Then we used the dry erase markers to try and color the letter B. Don't get too excited from the photo, I colored the lowercase b to try and show her what to do! She did a little better today attempting to stay on or near the letters. She also changes which hand she uses quite often; she is definitely way better and controlled with her right hand, but uses her left hand a lot as well.<br />
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Next we tried doing some writing practice sheets. This, as you can see, turned into scribblefest. I tried helping her by holding her hand, but that did not go over well. I tried getting my own marker to show her how to trace the lines, and she put the cap back on and took my marker away. So I let her just have it and she colored all over the paper with lots of different colors. The most important thing was that she was having a blast coloring. She'll get it eventually. Another opportunity for Mommy to watch her grow!<br />
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Gooba was really into the coloring today, so we took out the B tracing page. She worked on this page a lot today. For a short time she actually tried to color on top of the letters before she just went crazy with it. She was clapping at one point and yelling "I'm writing a B!" So the intention was definitely there. We have some cute ballerina crafts and a few left over things to do over the weekend, but all in all I think we got a lot of things done today considering we spent the entire morning shopping and at the pool.<br />
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<i>Printables graciously borrowed from <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/">1+1+1=1</a> and <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a>.</i><br />
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Today was another bugtastic day! We got together again with <a href="http://www.stayathomeadventures.wordpress.co/">Stay at Home Adventures</a>, but this time at their house, and it was a hot one! Today we got up to a super humid 97 degrees...Gooba was a little sweat ball by the time we got home.<br />
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Our first activity was digging in the dirt, always a winner with Gooba, and deciding if the creature we found was a bug or not a bug. Mostly the girls enjoyed digging in the dirt, so we let Bro Bro sort the creatures and count how many we had of each.<br />
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The next activity was super fun and a water activity, which definitely helped with the heat. As bug exterminators we filled up little water guns and tried squirting each other. If you got hit with the water you had to wiggle wiggle wiggle and fall to the ground like a bug. We did not so much understand the wiggle, but we sure did enjoy squirting the car! The car did not understand wiggling either.<br />
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Next, and very appropriate for our super hot day, was the frozen bugs. Pretty Girl's Mommy had frozen three bugs into three blocks of ice. The kids had to spray the blocks of ice with warm water and try to pick out the bugs. I'm not sure what worked better, the 97 degree heat or the warm water. Either way, the kids still had fun.<br />
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Craft Time! All I have is a finished product picture of this one since it was pretty hands on, but they turned out great! First we used Dot Painters to paint a paper plate. This was a great time for the girls to practice their colors and their manners. When they were done painting we cut their plates and attached the body that Pretty Girl's Mommy cut out the night before. We taped the body to the wings and taped on pipe cleaners for antennae. Then they chose and glued on their own googly eyes.<br />
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Finally we were on to our last craft of the day... notice how all the outside activities were at the beginning before the heat got too bad! Gooba really liked this one, so again I only have a finished product picture. We cut out a butterfly shape and placed it on contact paper. Then we added a few pieces of ribbon, cut the extra contact paper and stuck them on the window! Gooba is super proud of this one and showed it several times to Daddy.<br />
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When we got home we decided to work on a few of our butterfly activities. The first one was one of her favorites, size sorting. This time we had many Daddy, Mommy, and Baby cards. We sorted them by size and then counted how many of each we had. <br />
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The next one made me smile. Earlier in the week really struggled with sorting the bee B's so I thought we would try to sort some butterfly B's. She had absolutely no problem with this today. In fact, even our bear we made yesterday helped a little bit. She insisted I take bear's picture since he helped so much. Then I realized that she was just mega confused by the whole B bee thing. Probably shouldn't have started the week with those!<br />
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Next we tried something new, some pattern cards. Gooba was freakishly awesome at finishing these patterns. She continues to surprise me with what she knows. She was also pretty excited about this activity if you couldn't already tell from the picture.<br />
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After the 30 seconds that it took us to make patterns we moved onto "heads and tooshies" even though they were technically right and left wings. Even Chance got in on the fun with this one. Gooba continued to rock at this game.<br />
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Finally, as if we hadn't accomplished enough today, we ended the day with some magnets. All in all we had another fabulous friend day and learned a lot in the process. Tomorrow we hope to squeeze in some ballerinas and some pool time with Gogo and Pop as well!<br />
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<i>Printables borrowed graciously from <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a> and <a href="http://www.makinglearningfun.com/">Making Learning Fun</a></i>Two Monkeys One Circushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06747739146155529051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758158910084295440.post-31663724191554590342012-06-20T14:07:00.003-04:002012-06-20T20:26:49.952-04:00B is for Bears<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today's lesson was all about bears! We started the morning out by sorting and counting little bears. We had some little fuzzy ones and some plastic colored bear counters. We counted the types of bears and how many of each color we had. Then Gooba had fun sorting them in her trays and using the "clapper catcher" to move them from container to container<br />
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Today we also worked on making the letter B with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bendaroos-Mega-Pack-500-Pieces/dp/B002YI6FC8/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1340215575&sr=1-1&keywords=Bendaroos">Bendaroos</a>. The last time we did this activity we were new to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bendaroos-Mega-Pack-500-Pieces/dp/B002YI6FC8/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1340215575&sr=1-1&keywords=Bendaroos">Bendaroos</a> so Gooba was uninterested in making any type of letter. This time she actually tried putting the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bendaroos-Mega-Pack-500-Pieces/dp/B002YI6FC8/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1340215575&sr=1-1&keywords=Bendaroos">Bendaroos</a> on the dotted lines on the paper. She was not great at this but the effort was definitely there today.<br />
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After we were done with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bendaroos-Mega-Pack-500-Pieces/dp/B002YI6FC8/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1340215575&sr=1-1&keywords=Bendaroos">Bendaroos</a> we were off to our gymnastics class or "tastics" and Gooba calls it. I was proud of her today, she was much more confident and adventurous and played with some of the other kids for a little bit as well. I'm looking forward to how much she will be able to do by the end of the twelve week lessons.<br />
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When we got home from gymnastics we had some lunch and worked on our <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Melissa-Doug-Wooden-Family-Dress-Up/dp/B00146G706/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340215538&sr=8-1&keywords=melissa+and+doug+Bear+puzzle">Melissa and Doug Bear Family puzzle</a>. We got this puzzle for Christmas this past year and Gooba has been a big fan ever since. She was disappointed today that the Daddy pajama pants are missing and we spent a good 15 minutes looking for them with no such luck. She does love to put every bear in their pajamas.... hopefully it will turn up.<br />
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After puzzle time we snuggled up and read a few stories and now Gooba is down for her nap. I'm hoping to get started on some bear muffins while she is sleeping and hopefully when she wakes up we can make a bear craft.<br />
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After our nap Gooba decided it was time for some art projects. The first thing we did was finger paint two paper plates for the bear craft below. While that was drying Gooba was finally into coloring for the first time since we started school. And we colored ALOT! I bought some washable markers the other day and she was all about it.<br />
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After dinner our paper plates were finally dry and we were able to add the construction paper arms, legs, ears, and face. Also we got to add Gooba's favorite part.... the googly eyes!<br />
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All in all we had a very great bear day. Looking forward to more bugs and butterflies tomorrow at our play date with <a href="http://www.stayathomeadventures.com/">Stay at Home Adventures</a>.<br />
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<i>Printables borrowed graciously from <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/">1+1+1=1</a> and <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a>.</i><br />
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Today we continued with the letter B. We did not do as much stuff as we normally do today since it was Story Time at the library. Again Gooba had a blast at Story Time and enjoyed, but not more than me, picking out some new books for this week. We read last weeks books approximately four hundred million times each. <br />
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Anyways before we left for Story Time we worked on one of our magnet pages. Gooba was mostly interested in playing with magnets today instead of placing them in the circles. Oh well.<br />
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We moved on from circles to coloring a letter B printable. She was not a fan of having me show her how to hold the marker. This seems to be a constant theme in my blogging I've noticed! We worked on this for a little while and then she decided it was time to finish breakfast.<br />
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While we were finishing breakfast I managed to squeeze in another activity. We got out our birds and birdhouses sorting cards. First we identified the letter B in both of those words and then we sorted the little cards. I continue to be so amazed at how fast she can complete an activity when she is trying to get rid of me. It's the same with eating, using the potty, and now school. She'll poke along and pretend she doesn't know what's she's doing, then all of a sudden, boom we're done. Smart and stubborn just like her..... ;)<br />
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After we sorted and crammed the rest of our breakfast in our mouths we got dressed for the day and headed to Story Time. Today's Story Time theme was nap time (lol) and I have found that Gooba will sit and listen to me read her a story for hours on end, but when someone else is reading she enjoys running around the room and yelling "I love dancing!" She was great however at the music and dancing activities. She's such a nut!<br />
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The two on the left are examples of the ones I made to show Gooba what to do. She was highly intrigued, mostly because of the googly eyes. <br />
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The two pictures on the right are Gooba intently focused on the play doh. Finally, below is her masterpiece! She did this one all by herself without any help from Mommy. <br />
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<i>Printables today again graciously borrowed from <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/">1+1+1=1</a> , <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a>, and <a href="http://www.makinglearningfun.com/">Making Learning Fun</a>.</i>Two Monkeys One Circushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06747739146155529051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758158910084295440.post-64786591307677409002012-06-18T21:13:00.003-04:002012-06-18T21:13:14.100-04:00B is for Bugs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After and very successful Letter A Week, we finally made it to Letter B Week! I think Gooba and I were both very excited to focus on a new letter today.<br />
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We began this week with B is for Bugs. We started our day with a familiar activity - magnets. Since we used these several times last week, Gooba was a pro. She took all the magnets and placed them right on all the circles. After she completed this once she experimented with different sizes of magnets.<br />
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The next printable was just a printable with both letters in an outline form with some pictures of bugs on it. She scribbled on here to, but the scribbling was on top of both letters. Seemed like there may have actually been a little bit of control somewhere in there!<br />
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After lacing cards and after lunch it was time for some quick crafts before nap time. I cut these pieces out earlier and Gooba helped me glue them onto the half sheets of paper. She also helped glue the stripes and her personal favorite, the googly eyes. If it was up to her every craft would have googly eyes on it. I'm hoping these will help her to tell the difference between Big B and little b throughout the week.<br />
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<i>Thank you to <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/">1+1+1=1</a> and <a href="http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com/">Confessions of a Homeschooler</a> for your wonderful printables!</i><br />
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Our final letter A day was A is for aquarium. This was a much shorter day because we were getting ready for Father's Day, had an out of town friend come to visit, and had two big family barbecues. We still managed to cram a few things on between Thursday and Saturday. <br />
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A little bit later that day Gooba and I finished our Father's Day craft by glueing the fish and seaweed onto the bottom paper plate. Then we glued plastic wrap onto the underside of paper plate ring. I think if we made this craft again I would tape the plastic wrap on so it stays in place better. Then we taped both plates together and added the writing with permanent marker.<br />
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This pretty much concluded our letter A review from Thursday and from over the weekend. More to come later on our first day of letter B week.Two Monkeys One Circushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06747739146155529051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8758158910084295440.post-85278883244475749752012-06-16T08:38:00.000-04:002012-06-17T20:12:47.613-04:00A is for Astronauts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik7D01nfA9oH4J_dN8OYLfOzmtt4EyWaQyvDgp5cVwwguYOFLneghBdXUuQB9knpOF5JxB-tGm6v8Ox7beg4sIeRkYw7DDiaBT8sfDqtq3i43V1hHCyfxu9IvYIGG5LtRkDrfCydbdA0Y/s1600/P1050159.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik7D01nfA9oH4J_dN8OYLfOzmtt4EyWaQyvDgp5cVwwguYOFLneghBdXUuQB9knpOF5JxB-tGm6v8Ox7beg4sIeRkYw7DDiaBT8sfDqtq3i43V1hHCyfxu9IvYIGG5LtRkDrfCydbdA0Y/s200/P1050159.JPG" width="200" /></a>These telescopes came in handy for our alien moon rock treasure hunt in the front yard. Earlier I had spray painted 31 small rocks with florescent orange paint and tossed them all over the yard. We had the kids use their telescopes to find the rocks. As you can see from the pictures those library binoculars are still a huge hit with Gooba. She apparently needed the binoculars and a telescope to find moon rocks! I knew this would be a big hit for her since essentially it has an Easter egg hunt but for rocks instead. Gooba loves her some Easter egg hunting!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEsIliR3l_T89_Zy4Yfb_zr3Fv_DwLrEa2tKLN_LB8EoQooIWt992sNMXXUR8ixGilAmkbH_k0taUXMR4_aEntoLek1Eq-3DEIhQijs46MgEkQSHSV-52K7wVl6cRcd_8OQ0vrg3gHVmM/s1600/P1050180.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEsIliR3l_T89_Zy4Yfb_zr3Fv_DwLrEa2tKLN_LB8EoQooIWt992sNMXXUR8ixGilAmkbH_k0taUXMR4_aEntoLek1Eq-3DEIhQijs46MgEkQSHSV-52K7wVl6cRcd_8OQ0vrg3gHVmM/s200/P1050180.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzn7j1MpXk8QMLzxe5JM7KImcr5Al9IygEBOvw_NQRI95h-KETE7C4P5XZmfNaXlsGd8hY-syfW481qJatpG-jSkdrAca6iLQ6Nyy-lQOmCp-zE4P18psiK09zwgnc0u9AnuAZ68It7iA/s1600/P1050177.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzn7j1MpXk8QMLzxe5JM7KImcr5Al9IygEBOvw_NQRI95h-KETE7C4P5XZmfNaXlsGd8hY-syfW481qJatpG-jSkdrAca6iLQ6Nyy-lQOmCp-zE4P18psiK09zwgnc0u9AnuAZ68It7iA/s200/P1050177.JPG" width="200" /></a>So that pretty much sums up our first alphabet play date of the year. All in all I feel like it was a pretty successful day! Looking forward to finally doing some B activities next week. Frankly, mommy is a little tired of the letter A. Gooba however has recognized A's all over the house, so I guess we're doing something right! And if we're not, we sure are having a lot fun! Thanks again to <a href="http://www.stayathomeadventures.wordpress.com/">Stay at Home Adventures</a> for a wonderful day!</div>Two Monkeys One Circushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06747739146155529051noreply@blogger.com0