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Today I worked on organizing my son's toys.  I made categories for all of our multi-coloured Ikea bins. I put painter's tape labels on them today and will finalize everything tomorrow and make proper labels for them.  It's a big task. I still have some bins that have an assortment of stuff in them. Those have to be finalized tomorrow.  Once it's all done, I will be posting pictures, maybe even tomorrow.

Our latest fun times!

Sensory Bin Fun!

He loves filling the trucks with the rocks!

We added some of his small trains and Cars toys to the macaroni.  He was so excited to find those things hidden in there.

These are some of the words we have posted on our mantle that he can read.  As you can see, they are words that are important to him.

I think a bulletin board is very important for all children to display their artwork.  That way they can take great pride in what they do.  Logan is always happy to show people what he has done.  I purged his bulletin board yesterday so we could display his new works of art.

I bought this AB Seas fishing game off a neighbour for $2.  I love Facebook Swap and Shops!  It's a great game.  He fishes for letters with a magnetic fishing rod.  He catches a capital letter and then has to match it to a lower case letter on the board. There are various games you can play with it.  One could easily make their own ABC Fishing game.

Our pug, Keiki is never far from her boy!

First thing this morning, Logan went straight to the rock sensory bin!  It's a definite hit!

Love the dollar store! I bought a set of 26 letters  for $2.

We started the painting project with the letters to spell his name.

He loved painting and choosing the colours that he wanted to paint his name with.  He chose his new favourite colour blue first.  (It used to be yellow.)

He started to ask for more letters. This activity was great for him as an introduction for him to learn how to form the letters.

This is how many letters his attention span was good for!

For this project, I used painter's tape.  Then I put dabs of finger paint all over the paper.

He started out a little timid to get paint everywhere so I had to add more finger paint and really talk him into spreading it around!

Daddy also had to talk him into doing more painting. Then we had success!

Taking the tape off was a bit of a challenge but here is the final result!!

Too many days of rain and we took to the garage to ride his trike!

He also enjoyed playing soccer!

Then the boys had fun playing hockey!

It was a busy but fun day!

Pinwheel

Shamrock Pinwheel

This activity was not a success! My husband thought a pinwheel would be a good idea.  As it turns out we made this shamrock too big. The instructions said to make the leaves 3" tall as mine were about 5" or so!  I should have followed the instructions.  Oh well, better luck next time!

Hand Butterfly

HAND BUTTERFLY

This was a quick one.  I traced my son's hands and let him colour them in before I cut them out.  I made the body and antenna out of the same piece of paper. I used fancy scrapbooking scissors to add some fun to it. My son loves using those scissors.  If I hold the paper sideways he is able to cut it with 2 hands. Hopefully soon he will be able to cut using only one hand!

No Mess Finger Painting!

No Mess Finger Painting!

For this activity, I squeezed a bit of finger paint into a ziplock bag.  Seal the ziplock bag.  Tape the ziplock bag onto a white piece of paper.  Then my son had a ton of fun squishing the paint around with his fingers.  At first he looked to see if there was paint on his fingers!  It was cute.  

Eventually he grabbed the bag and paper and really scrunched it all up. 

It actually made a really cool effect!

Reading!

READING!!

My son is very much into reading these days. He knows all his letter names and their sounds.  He can also read 12 words now.  We created these pictures today to add to his list of words he can read. You can tell he really enjoyed colouring the bus!  Once he can associate them with their pictures, then I will take the pictures away and just have him read the words in different environments.  Of course all the words he reads are concrete things that he is interested in! And yes, I am very proud mom!! :-)

Our Family Story Book

Our Family Story Book

I thought it would be fun to write a book together as a family.  Of course with the attention span of a toddler, it had to be short and sweet.  I did the writing with input from my son and my husband. My husband drew the pictures and my son did the colouring.  I think it's a pretty good story for our first one!

We were definitely tired at the end of the story!!