It has been a full three weeks since I last posted! That’s the longest break since I started this blog just over a year ago. The lack of blog posts is mostly because we’ve been doing a lot of this… DJ was also in a wedding last week. It was an interesting experience trying to explain “wedding” and “marriage” to a 3 year old. He started to understand at one point when I explained mommy and daddy are married. Then…
DJ did some practical life work in the yard with his dad recently. It was hot, hard, dry work… but… It was SO worth the effort! Now this is the way to do summer. And just in time too as we’re entering a two week heat wave in our region. And it’s contributing to an increase in social engagements too. He also did some art work this week. I’ve been really impressed with his skill with scissors lately. Before discovering…
Remember when DJ received these pattern blocks for his birthday and he was so frustrated because the pieces would shift as he added new pieces? Well, six months later and there’s no more frustration, just a lot of fun! He’s also really enjoying being able to count to 10. Despite being very proficient at it, he still repeats it over and over and over. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, TEN!! I think I might go insane!…
My introduction of static addition was a little premature last week. So I backed up and introduced the Change Game to DJ. This game starts by taking a random quantity of beads and making a royal mess of them on a tray. You then order the beads into their categories, units, tens, hundreds and thousands. Once ordered, you begin to count them. You begin counting units and when you get to 10, you exchange them for a 10-bar. When you…