Tot School

Kayleigh is 25 months old

Hello Tot Schoolers!! I hope you had a great week! We had a lot of nice weather and spent a great deal of time outside.

Kayleigh played a lot on her Little Tikes Swing Along Castle.

We did our version of the egg and spoon race to work on some motor skills.

Kayleigh was supposed to scoop the eggs out of the bowl.



Carry it the spoon to the basket on the other end of the yard.


And drop into the basket.



Kayleigh felt the need to tweak the activity. For one the egg wouldn't always stay in the spoon. So she solved that problem first.

It really works better, she decided, if you hold the egg on the spoon.


But alas, Kayleigh still wasn't happy. It was taking far too long to get all those eggs into one basket.

Problem solved! And that is just a perfect example of how her mind works. Work smarter, not harder. LOL

She also found other uses for the eggs. She's so clever! LOL

She helped her sister and her cousin decorate our fence with sidewalk chalk.

She loved, loved, loved this activity with a tic tac toe game I bought at the Dollar Tree. She played with it all week. Well I should clarify a little bit. She loved it if you could just stand there and stick pegs in. If you started any of that educational mumbo jumbo, like talking about pink and white, she'd run away screaming. LOL

She used egg chalk to draw on her Melissa & Doug Magnetic Chalk Dry Erase Board. She loves the chalk board. I don't use it nearly enough. And I haven't been brave enough to let her use the dry erase side yet. She often likes to write on things that aren't supposed to be written on so I've been leary. LOL Her older sister never did such things.

I got out her Smart Shapes peg stacker. She ALWAYS love this toy. Usually she'll just stack the pegs but this time she even did the puzzle portion.

I decided to give her Melissa & Doug Alphabet Puzzle Book another try. She hasn't really seen it since she got it at Christmas. She totally wasn't interested in it then. She did a little better this time. She would flip through the pages herself and carry it around. She had zero interest in playing with the puzzle pieces or listening to me sing the abc song as I pointed to the letters.

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Tot School

Kayleigh is 25 months old




Happy Easter Tot Schoolers! I hope you all had a blessed day!!

Kayleigh, bless her heart, did not want to participate in many activities this week. She had no interest and a lot of opinions. I'm totally jealous of all your cooperative tots who do all these fun things every week. Here it's always "no, no, no!" LOL

Here are some of the things we attempted.

#1 I thought she would LOVE this activity from Home Grown Hearts. Especially since I put the eggs in a little bunny basket. Yeah, not so much. Sissy tried to interest her by playing along and getting one of our Bitty Twins to play too. We tried playing it in different locations. She's not one to be fooled. She did one put on one egg.

#2 Hide and Squeak Eggs~ These she did play with for a few minutes. Not to match the shapes on the eggs to the shapes in the carton, of course LOL, but she did have fun with them.




#3 Like last week, she had no interest in matching bunnies, butterflies, or chicks. They just sat there untouched.


As did #4, sorting big and little crosses. She refused to attempt this too. We're going to try it again.


She did play with her Melissa and Doug lacing beads. This was a surprise because those usually get tossed aside by her too.

Our biggest success of the week was the Hide 'Em and Find 'Em Eggs. I bought them at Target for $15, which I thought was pricey at the time, but apparently that was a deal compared to Amazon. And since she loved them so much, I'm glad that I got them. You turn them on and they either cheep or shout "I'm over here!" Then your kids go find them. Inside are little bunnies or chicks. They shout "Surprise! You found me!" when opened.

Kayleigh finally worked on the Letter C. She started her C is for Cat page for her ABC book.


She started off painting with Q-tips but she didn't like that. Too messy! So we switched to a paint brush. Mommy still needs to cut it out so she can glue the pieces together and, hopefully, draw the whiskers. Then it will be ready to laminate and put in her book.

Here she is helping with our Resurrection Eggs. We had a hard time keeping stuff out of her mouth. She doesn't eat much food but she eats everything else. LOL

And here's my spirited girl all dressed up for Easter Sunday. Notice she's clutching a bag of gummy bunnies. "I got candy!" is pretty much all she said all day long. LOL

So now we now that she likes candy and open-ended toys and nothing else. LOL

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Tot School

Kayleigh is 25 months old

Well another week gone by. Another great plan thwarted by some really nice weather. There were also a few really cold days so we did some tot schooling then.



We moved on from Brown Bear to Easter/Spring. And the letter C. We totally ignored poor C for outdoor time.


We did manage a few Easter activities before breakfast on a couple of days. Here's hoping next week will be more fruitful because I've got lots of spring and Eastery ideas ready to go. I'm also planning on going to Busch Gardens so we'll see how it plays out. Working ahead in 3rd grade might cause more Tot School delays. We like to hit BG as much as possible before public school lets out. Shorter lines and better weather are important for our amusement park fun. LOL


Kayleigh got to play with "yayee pops" as she called the Easter egg picks from the Dollar Tree.

She liked it so much she played with it all week. And tried to eat them. I have to say they're not
very sturdy. There's only about 5 left. LOL

We got out some playdough. She didn't play with this very long. It wasn't really soft so it was difficult for her to work with. Maybe when we get some fresh she'll enjoy it more.

I made this game with some erasers from Target. I just photocopied them to make the mat and then laminated. She loved doing this over Valentines but she wasn't much into it this week.

We also got out her Magneato's. Big Sis likes them too!

We read Easter Surprise a lot but I don't have any pictures because I was reading. LOL It's a cute little board book about Jesus being God's gift for us at Easter. Kayleigh liked the ducks.

Lastly we had some family fun with a picnic at the park.

Be sure to check out all the other tot's, who accomplish so much more then we do LOL, over at Carisa's.