We were away for a fun-filled long weekend, not getting home until late Monday night, which of course threw us off for Tuesday, then I worked on Wednesday and had yet another off day on Thursday. So really that only gave us a few days to do anything remotely tot/preschool-ish over the past ten days. However, what we did do, we had great fun with! Silas and Oliver both really enjoy painting. Once a week, we have a messy art day and we CAN NOT paint without at least five cars making their way through the paint tray! It does make for some pretty neat gifts (even if it's just the wrapping paper lol).
I did manage to convince Oliver to try a paint brush for awhile, just for something different. He's really been getting into painting lately, and he only eats the paint every now and then!
After painting, we did some gluing with watered down glue and paint brushes and stuck on a bunch of feathers, buttons, pom poms and paper scraps. They enjoyed this, reminding me I should do more gluing activities with them.
Our only day actually doing anything remotely academic was this afternoon while Oliver napped. We got out our foam puzzles and gathered up types of objects (1 mermaid, 2 race cars, 3 blue cars etc) to match the numbers. We then did the same thing with the alphabet. Silas is really starting to get this, although it's by no means automatic. He's got a few things memorized, but ask him for something different (as we are rather short on bumblebees this time of year!) and he's got to think for a while!
As for Oliver, he had a blast visiting over the weekend, but I think he was pretty happy to be home and back to normal! He's also discovered the joys of traveling with a dump truck. I cannot count the number of miles Silas has put in pushing a truck around the ranch, but he did where out a set of Tonka truck wheels and we had to wrap them with hockey tape. Looks like Oliver will be following in his big brother's footsteps!
I love how kids always have to check out the wheels moving! Looking at this pictures, it's probably a good thing these two love to push their trucks around as much as they do! There are literally places that Oliver gets stuck cause it's so slippery he can't get any traction to move forward. It's SO icy right now, and sometimes it thaws during the day, sometimes it doesn't, but it's sparked a lot of conversation and fun!
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