Felt Board: Color Birds

Blue bird, blue bird, come to my window

Blue bird, blue bird, come to my window

Blue bird, blue bird, come to my window

Buy molasses candy

Yellow bird, yellow bird, come to my window

Yellow bird, yellow bird, come to my window

Yellow bird, yellow bird, come to my window

Buy molasses candy

Orange bird, orange bird, come to my window

Orange bird, orange bird, come to my window

Orange bird, orange bird, come to my window

Buy molasses candy

Red bird, red bird, come to my window

Red bird, red bird, come to my window

Red bird, red bird, come to my window

Buy molasses candy

White bird, white bird, come to my window

White bird, white bird, come to my window

White bird, white bird, come to my window

Buy molasses candy

Sung over and over again by Mom for thirty minutes or more at a time.  It is repetitive and happy half hour.  

Beaded Bracelets

Take pony beads and thread them on pipe cleaners and ta da – kitty toys bracelets! 

Normally Aurora would giggle and giggle at the cats as they batted pipe cleaners and pulled beads out of bowls, but she was too focused on her craft.

 So diligently she threaded bead after bead on her carefully selected pipe cleaner.  At her requested, I sorted the beads by color so she could focus on just the purple, then the grey, and then green. 

When her dad came home from work, she skipped her usual grand greeting and only turned her head with a quick “hello” before she resumed beading.

Pie Day

Happy Pie Day (yesterday 3.14)!  Aurora was a big fan.  Had I been on my A-game then we would have made all our goodies, but some weeks just aren’t those weeks.  So, we used the help of the greater Madison community.

At the children’s museum Aurora made here own tiny apple pie.  We brought it home so that Dad could help us cook it. 

Then we got a pizza pie.  Apparently, calling it a “pie” was distressing to Aurora who insisted through tears that it was simply “pizza.” 

And of course we topped the day off with cherry pie and ice-cream.

 In the spirit of mathematics, we added some counting books to our usual nighttime fare.  Her favorite, You Can Count on Monsters (Richard Evan Schwartz, 2010), extended her bedtime by a good little bit because we read/counted all the way to 64!  

Felt Board: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Aurora is on the mend!  The fever broke late last night, this morning she ate half a squeezey fruit, and the doctor said we had turned the corner.  Already she is showing an interest in gentle play – a perfect opportunity for our new series of games of turning our favorite books into felt boards.  Today we played with lower case letters and a palm tree inspired by Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (by Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault, illustrated by Lois Ehlert, 1989). 

This is how she played with her new felt board yesterday.

This is how she played today.

I am so encouraged by her play, so relieved at her improvement, and so impressed that my two and a half year old knows all her lower case letters.  Aurora is so great. 

Sick Days

After four days of high fevers and twenty-something episodes of Sesame Street into Aurora’s illness, today’s doctor’s visit and chest x-ray gave our adversary a name – central pneumonia.  Poor little dear.  At least now we have antibiotics in our arsenal.