What We've Been Up To

Since Jacob is getting to be preschool age, and we are not sending him to preschool, I decided I better start doing some preschool activities with him. I found a workbook at Walmart the other day and decided to see how he would do with it. Since he really likes for us to go over the alphabet with him, I decided to start with beginning writing. Just simple stuff. Tracing lines and such. I didn't think he'd really trace the lines but decided to see what he would do. It was really interesting to watch him. As you can see from the first page, he traced all of those lines (except the first 2 which I did) and did a pretty good job. The other 2 pages are to help them get used to writing from left to right. He did pretty good on the first page, but by the time he got to the 3rd page he had had enough and just wanted to color. I've never really watched him color. I've seen the end result of pictures he's colored, but it was really fun actually watching him do it. To look at the last page, it's hard to imagine what would be so interesting about scribble, but again, that is the end result. He starts out actually trying to color in the lines and does a pretty good job. He colored all the spiders legs perfectly. He tried really hard to color in the lines of the birds wings as well. But after a while he just starts scribbling. So, you don't really see the progress he has made.



Jacob has yet to figure out buttons, so I went on a hunt for some sort of activity book to help him practice. Unable to find anything I decided to make my own. And just for the fun of it I decided to throw in things he can tie as well. It's not the best looking book, but it was fun to make.

I actually had to dismantle an old shoe to do this one.

I'm hoping this will keep him busy during our trip home next week. We shall see.

Lizzie has given up her baby swing and graduated to big kid swings. She loves it. Jacob still refuses to sit in a swing. He prefers to swing superman style. haha. He also really likes to push Lizzie in the swing. Which is fine with me. :)

We've decided to start weaning Lizzie off the binky. It has made for a very cranky girl. She gets it at nap time and bed time and that's it. She's not at all happy about it. In fact, as I type this post, she is crying for her binky. Poor girl. Earlier today, I found her hiding in a corner with an empty infants tylenol bottle, sucking on the top out of desperation, since I wouldn't give in and give her a binky. It was pretty funny. I'm determined to have her completely off it by the time she turns 2!!!