Montessori Beginnings

 I had all these big plans for doing so many works and activities with LJ after Christmas and so far I've just be...

Wow I can't believe another month has gone by. This is my last 20 month post so I'll do a brief summing up of where L is at with pra...

For Daddy's birthday we decided to go to a Wild Animal park close to our home. I really don't like zoos and animals in captivity but...

I decided to retire the chopsticks for a while and use the lacing beads for color matching. L is at the stage where she doesn't like cha...

We finally got around to getting out and collecting leaves at the park. I've wanted to try leaf rubbing for some time now. We took a bas...

As anyone can tell by my cardboard creations we don't have a lot of money to spend. With only one of us working it is very seldom that L...

Thanks everyone for your helpful comments on L's nap situation. She actually stopped taking them when she was 17 months so it's bee...

Here are some activities we did today. They both seemed to have a snack theme which L really enjoyed. The first was making a pasta and Cheer...

Yesterday and today have been art days. L has been asking to paint so yesterday we tried a few things from some other posts I've seen. F...

Towards the end of L's 19th month we tried a couple of new things. The first one was of course potty training. I'm happy to report t...

The last few days have been really fun because we've had G.A.S. (aka Great Auntie S) staying with us. We did lots of projects and even w...

L has always been really interested in books and knows all of her books by title. We get three new library books every couple weeks she quic...

For the last little while, well long while actually daddy has been having to do extra work on what are supposed to be his days off. So we ha...

L loves her "lacing chopsticks" so much but she's really mastered putting them on and taking them off and also putting all one...