Tot School

17 months old.

We don't have too many photos this week. A lot of our activities were outside, and I forgot. Oops!

Kael did a fabulous job of steering his race car shopping cart around Home Depot, while we picked up some projects for Kai (to practice his handyman skills). Kael enjoyed looking all over the store, helping pick out parts, and watching the wood get cut.

There were many trips to the park this week. Here is one of my favorites from our playdate with the Hansen's.
This next activity was sort of designed to serve two purposes. The first was just to enjoy playing with water and noticing the difference between the warm bowl and the cold bowl. We are really trying to increase Kael's baby sign language vocabularly though, so I thought this would also be a good way to work on the "hot" and "cold" signs. He did watch while I repeated the signs over and over, but he did not try to copy them yet. He really liked splashing around and dipping his cars between the warm water and the ice water. I tried to find our little cars that change colors with different water temperatures, but since Kai was not at home on this particular morning, I couldn't tell which ones they were.

After he was done playing in the bowls, he rolled the wet cars on his body. He said "voom, voom." It was so cute!


Another trip to the park. Lots of gross motor practice on this day.

The steering wheel is by far his favorite activity.



He also enjoyed some finger painting.


Here's his final product.

We spent a lot of time working on body part identification this week, but I did not get very many pics. Here are some of the things we used.

Kael loved the face plate activity from Slow and Steady, Get Me Ready despite Mommy's primitive drawing abilities. I touched a part of his face and named it, then drew it on the plate. He thought it was hilarious.

He also enjoyed the body board book. He seems to like the DK board books over actual stories right now, I think because he enjoys seeing pictures of real babies. We used the Linguini doll to name his parts.

So far, "nose" is the only body part Kael will point to, but I think he is close to doing "hair" and "bellybutton." We are also working on getting him to point to other people's noses in addition to his own.


To see what others did for Tot School this week, go here.