naptime

An hour into naptime Ashley calls for yelling, "I need to wash my hands!" I went into her room and looked at her hands and didn't see anything. Then I noticed the open container of Aquaphor.  Then I noticed how much was gone with small finger ditches in it. I started looking around to figure out where it all went.  After not seeing anything I dared to ask. "Ashley what were you doing?" "Painting" "Painting where?" I relplied trying to keep from freaking out when really I'm thinking Painting! Oh this is going to fun cleaning. Ashley points to the side of her dresser.  After cleaning it up I dared ask, "anywhere else?" "Over here (pointing to the front of the dresser, and here (the only other available side), and on Troy (her bear), and here (the Lazy boy!)

Well it could have been worse, it could have been actual fingerpaint. At least aquaphor is clear unscented petroleum jelly based lotion and after examining the damage it was too bad.  Troy just has his nose and eyes done- the non-hairy part so that was easily wipeable. The dresser is now shiny clean, and as for the chair I couldn't find anything!

Letter Review

Since we've been doing letters everyday for weeks now I'm having to get creative on different activities besides memory and go fish. For our review I put our letter magnets in a bowl of water and had Ashley pull out a letter from the water and run it to the matching letter from our letter mat.Rachel wanted a turn and after Rachel, Ashley went again.

Letter L

L is for llama

Letter K

A letter K activity we did was kick the tower with the letter K. This turned into kick over the k's and then kick them all. Even Rachel had to take a turn or two.

Our Comedian

Ashley is full of personality and lately we've noticed how she will intentionally do something in hopes of making us laugh. Unfortunately I haven't been that great about keeping up with recording them but here's one that happened this afternoon while at a friends house.

She was outside and came to the open sliding door to tell me she was poopy. (yes potty training is coming soon) I told her okay come in so I can change her. I look back to see why she's not coming in while I dug around for a diaper in my purse. She sees me looking and pushes her face and body against the glass of the door and says, "I can't get in!"

Nap time resistant strategy

After learning about bugs this morning I decided to use it as a way to get Ashley upstairs for naptime. I asked her what bug she was going to be and how she was going to get upstairs. She decided on a caterpillar so she could slowly crawl up the stairs. Well smart mommy decided to be a bird and try to eat the caterpillar. After giggles of delight and making no progress toward the stairs the caterpillar was caught. Some how after that we did make it half way upstairs before my caterpillar decided it was her turn to be a bird, so like a good mom would do I got on my hands and knees and let the bird chase me the rest of the way to her room. Now this is where the student outsmarts the teacher. We get in her room the bird eats the caterpillar. The bird goes "Hmph" and walks out the bedroom door back down the hallway with a my job is done attitude leaving the caterpillar/mom wondering when did she get so smart? Of course I won, she's now in bed asleep after singing ladybug songs and tucking her in with only the butterfly blanket.

Belly Noises

Most people when hungry say that their stomach is growling. Not Ashley her belly grumbles. When she's hungry she'll come over to you and say, "My belly grumbling." When she has had enough she says, "I'm done my belly not grumbling anymore"