Morning naps

One of my favorite times of our day is John Paul's morning nap, because for an hour I get my girl all to myself. We do all kinds of things that John Paul can't do yet, like play with all these tiny animals.



We've also been doing "school," and we're using a book called Before Five in a Row. We read a classic book together, and then there are little lessons that have to do with each book. The first book we are doing is Blueberries for Sal. We read it, and then the math lesson was to collect blueberries (or something - we used blocks and pretended they were blueberries.) I put them all over the house, and we "picked" them and put them in a bucket. Then we counted them, and I said, "If you have 5 blueberries and you eat 2, how many do you have?" She did fantastic and now she wants to play with her "blueberries we don't really eat" all the time. The next day we did an art project about the book, and then a history lesson. There's also music and we're making animal flashcards, and practicing classification. I really love this and I love doing it with her! She is learning so much.

This week we're going to read Corduroy. It's her birthday week! I can't believe my girl is going to be 3 on Friday!