Watching workers outside the window

Today at daycare the toddlers enjoyed watching the PSEG workers outside their window, and listening to all the sounds the workers were making. The little guy loves "trucks" - everything's kind of a "truck" - cars, trucks, buses - so we're working on recognizing the differences. :)

Making rainbows

Baby boy enjoyed art today making paint rainbows with folding paper plates

Innovative art

Little boy enjoyed painting with his nose...yes his nose. I saw photos of all the kids with painted noses, leaned over paper and painting with their noses. Too cute. And today they mixed colors and saw red and blue make purple.

My little guy loves music

So today at daycare they said he was a little sad but loved singing and dancing at circle time. It's true. He loves to sing and dance. He has enjoyed music since a few months old. He quickly learned in the crib to turn on the music that turned the mobile. He would hum with it. Then he moved to toys that played songs - musical books, alphabet pal catepillar, the hungry catepillar and jack russel terrier musical pull-string toys, and then the clock radio. Once he knew where we stashed the remote for that thing, he was grabbing it and putting it up to us, signaling us to turn it on. Then he could say "dan" - or dance - as he pointed to the radio. Apparently he did this in the infant room at daycare. And now in the toddler room he just goes over to the radio/CD player and turns it on himself. :) too funny. He loves to sing to the ABC song, and is even already saying a few of the letters as we sing. He loves "Wheels on the bus" and a total favorite is "Itsy bitsy spider". He holds his hands together at the fingertips and says "ih ih" - so we sing along together. He seems to really like "WIPE the spider OUT!" and then he puts his fingertips together when the spider climbs up the spout again! Sometimes we hear him singing to himself. We're not clear yet what the song is, but he's definitely singing. This was even more clear the day he gave himself a big round of applause, "YEAH!" clapping feverishly. :) My kids are not lacking in self-confidence, that is for sure!

Using musical instruments

He enjoyed making music with his toddler friends with different instruments. At circle time they sometimes bring out bells and tamborines to shake when they sing their morning songs.

Little goldfish

Baby boy and his toddler friends put rocks and plant in their new goldfish bowl. I think the fish came from the Fall Festival - we'll see how long he lasts. But the little cuties are all so cute when they're lined up to walk in the hall together, go to the big room, sitting listening to a story!

Making music with friends

Christopher had a wonderful Wednesday! He and his friend, Socky, had lots of fun playing instruments today. They made great music. :)

The vase

So today my little one seemed obsessed with a vase of flowers...it's a plastic vase filled with fun art materials in the walls of the vase, and pretty floral bunch in it. They have it propped in the 'kitchen' area on the table. I thought it was so cute he seemed so attracted to it. And when I picked him up he pulled the flowers out, gave them to me, and when I put them in the vase, he picked up the vase and gave it all to me. I thought - great first step to know how to bring Momma flowers... and then I read a prior daily sheet and saw he actually helped his teacher fill the vase with the fun art material...so it's really that he wanted to show me his project he was proud of! How absolutely adorable!