The Calendar Project

Daniel's known the days of the week for a while. He can say his months. He's always asking if today is a school day or if he can stay home with me. So I thought it was high time to invest in a calendar!

After getting some great advice from Facebook friends, I settled on a homemade calendar. Well, the advice and the fact that neither of two stores on my way home from work had blank desk calendars available.

So I drew the grid, added in the month (May), the days of the week and all of the numbers. I gave Daniel a little bin filled with scrapbooking extras and he proceeded to decorate the edges, then he put the stars on the days he goes to "pre pre-school". We hung it up and voila...

One beautiful calendar! Hopefully this will help him determine the days of the week and the months as well as work on his numbers.

Tinkering Around with Creepy Crawlies

Last night I told Daniel if he 'cleaned' his room up real nice that I had a new, special toy for him to play with. He was excited and so the cleaning began. We put on some music and he put his toys away while I pulled out his winter clothes that I know he won't be able to wear next year.

When we were both done I pulled out a box of TinkerToys. Not just any tinker toys, but the set where you can make all kinds of creepy crawlies, which is right up Daniel's alley these days, much to my dismay.

I need to insert here that I bought this $19.99 box of tinkertoys for $0.50 at a yard sale!! So while many think Daniel is spoiled with all his toys, in reality we have paid little for each of them!

For my well spent $0.50 we had two good HOURS of entertainment. I helped him build a cool spider (YES - ME!) and then I snuck out to do some other chores checking back every so often and of course snapping pictures. Daniel played by himself the rest of the time! Heavenly!

In other news - Daniel smashed his first bug with his bare hand - that was exciting to say the least and then today we cut a worm in half accidentally. It was still moving, so therefore I assume it is fine - both halves.

This is not a stage I'm looking forward to, but I'm trying...honestly!

Who Needs Toys When You Have

Laundry Baskets and microwave carts??

And Grandma!!!

We go back to the doctor today to for a complete check up. Yesterday they gave us some cream for his face, but I didn't see any improvement overnight. It may take a couple of days.

We'll let you know how the check up goes. We have also schedule the IAD clinic for May 6th. Looking forward to seeing what they have to say. We think he's perfect. Although he does like to stand on toys so we are working on that!!