Old memories.

I remember making these simple flashcards with black markers on white cardstock and taping them to the side of Jr S's crib and changing table. She really enjoyed those. She also used to enjoy seeing the light coming in from the side of the crib and the contrast which the slats offered her. This was recommended by my amazing sister from the book "The Baby Whisperer". One of the first handmade toy we made was rattle out of a cereal can. It was vibrant yellow with a small plastic ball inside it. Jr S loved to look at it . Another toy which Jr S loved was a remote control which helped us immensely as Jr S was not very tolerant of tummy time till she found out about the remote. Later we also used it to develop further milestones like creeping and crawling. One thing which has not changed since when she was a baby is her love for books. I remember the funny times when she was about 7 months ,she would instinctively start searching for her book stashed in the pocket of out rocker when it was sleep time. She still loves to have books read to her. her favorite phrase: ata vachuya ekda ani mag last time, translated means lets read , once and then the last time.

back from our hiatus... not really a hiatus though

I will be starting writing in my blog again. Since a couple of months, I had been entering our activites in another journal but missed my blog as that is how I would like my DD to eventually see what fun times we had. I am thinking of blogging about all our old activities which we did when she was an infant /toddler. Just as another record keeping device. Lets see how far I am able to do this.

fishing for insects

Recently we had a toy swap with  our very good friend and Jr S got a chance to read, The Wide mouthed frog . This came with a great puppet set of each of the animals. Needless to say, she loved it. Continuing with the same theme, I made some insects out of cardstock and taped magnets to them and Jr S "fished" for insects to feed the wide-mouthed frog.

spray painting

We made simple shapes with sidewalk chalk and Jr S sprayed inside the shapes with her little spray bottle. A great activity to work on fine motor coordination. If you want to isolate the control in the index finger , try using a water gun .

More pouring/transferring activity

Jr S loves transferring bird food in our little feeder, what a great repetitive activity for practicing transferring skills. This time I gave her a small plastic teacup to fill it. Now when we do this activity I fill in a small plastic container with bird food which makes the transferring it , neater. Birdies...Bon Appetit

water pouring

This was one of our staple activity last summer as well, but this year her skills have improved a lot for pouring and transferring. I just put out a kitchen tub with water, sometimes, with food color in it. We made a pouring station with a milk garton with a cutout hole and put the funnel in the pouring spout. Add a few measuring cups /spoons and watch them get all wet!!

Easter fun

We had lots of fun activities for Easter. Unfortunately, we were not able to arrange for an egg hunt this year but Jr S had fun at school . We did this patterning activity with different colored easter eggs. The first time, I made 2 patterns and had Jr S copy them . The second time she participated in making the actual pattern but got carried away a little. All in all , colorful fun.