The Ups and Downs of the toddler room!

The Ups of Toddlers:

·      They are adorable! Pretty much anything they do is cute and makes me smile! I just love photographing them, because it always turns out cute.

·      They're just learning to talk, and it's amazing to watch their vocabulary explode (and their personalities emerge).

·      Everything is full of wonder; it helps me slow down and enjoy the little things in life with them.

·      They’re much more prone to hugging and snuggling.

·      They’ve had so little life experience and are incredibly easy to influence and shape them for the best.

The Downs of Toddlers:

·      Diaper changing times 5 times a day!

·      The urge to dump things on the floor trumps the clean-up song.

·      Separation anxiety is still very much in play.

·      Repetitive books and songs I get stuck in my head.

·      They have begun to learn the word “No”

Books and Prayers

We love books, we love books so much that everyone has their favorites. Currently the book of the week is Little Critter. Which I'm quite surprised they sit through 20 pages but they do and we usually end up reading it about twice. 

So everyday before we go out for meals we say a prayer and I make them fold their hands. We are getting the words down now. It's been fun practicing with them! Here is our prayer we say: "God is good, God is great, let us thank him for our food, Amen!

Our Cutest Moments:

Splash Day and Birthday Fun!!!

Whenever it is anyone's birthday during bible time Miss Nancy and the whole center sing happy birthday to them. I reminded Nancy that is was Jack's birthday we sat through the whole ten minutes of bible today. They were  fidgeting  throughout it but it was a good ending. Then Lila went up to give Jack a birthday hug at the end! 

I made a slideshow of our splash day outside because we invited the two year old's to come and play with us. Of course I took way too many pictures hence why I made a slideshow. Enjoy!

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The birthday boy enjoying his cupcake!!!

Our Friends enjoying theirs!!!

The boys really enjoy singing happy birthday, and they have to stand on chairs when they do it, here's a clip of our singing crew!

Our Cutest Moments:

Getting ready for another birthday!!!

Guess who's turning 2 tomorrow?! That's right baby Jack, well not so much a baby anymore and I have stopped saying baby Jack for a few months now because he has turned into a toddler, or should I say a 2 year old little boy now!!! 

We will celebrate with a water splash day tomorrow! I will post pictures tomorrow after our party!!!

Mason was super excited about my animals stickers I picked up at the Dollar Tree today!!!!

Stickers are a huge hit lately, and it's fun to do with the little ones too watching them explore the sticky side and figuring out how to place it on their papers. 

Vinnie on the other hand really surprised me during this process, I look over and he is taking all the stickers off by himself and placing them on his paper. Rolen was working really hard getting the paper off the foam animal stickers. Way to go big boys!!!

I love getting group pictures, it just describes everyone's personality! And if you're at all wondering why Vinnie has a lollipop in his mouth, he received his summer haircut today! 

So today, we have been all about rocks! We climbed on them, we went for a walk to go and collect them for a art project. Tomorrow during our water day, more than likely we will find some more and pretend washing them like last time!

Before our rock climbing, we thought it would be fun to climb aboard the rocking cars and take a few pictures! 

I would just like to say, we are getting better at following directions, when I say stay on the sidewalk we do a pretty good job at listening, we might venture off into the grass just a little bit!

Our Cutest Moments:

Art and Sensory!

So this a good clean activity that only requires a paint brush and a cup of water can add minutes of entertainment for toddlers. Yesterday we painted on paper and today we painted outside. Both a lot of fun!

Our most exciting moment today was when we found a bug crawling on the carpet from when we came inside. I love their little screams about the icky bug!

We spent a lot of time outside this week, since it was so nice out. Although, we did have to come in on several of the afternoons and get a quick diaper change, refresh our thirst with water and have a little cereal snack. 

Our Cutest Moments:

Trying out the new water toys!!!

Well I was getting a little worried this morning when we took them outside to play that it might get to hot in the afternoon to go out. I was wrong it was much nicer in the afternoon and we were in the shade too. Miss Joyce and I lathered them all up in sunscreen and put their clean art shirts on them just in case. I have to say they look really cute just wearing those!

Lets not forget water is fun, but mud well that's even better! A few of them spent more time digging up the mud, squishing it between their fingers, painting themselves, and splashing in it. I loved watching them explore with it!