Letter Aa

This week I started M's first week of "school". I'm calling it school very loosely, I'm only doing one project a day, which usually takes about 30mins. We do talk about the letter and color through out the day, but just pointing to her art work and asking her what the letter/color is and what starts with that letter. Anyways, on to our week....
Monday well was nothing, we have play dates on Mondays and by the time we get home it's quite time then time to get N from school, so til school lets out Mondays are no school days.

Tuesday we started out simple I printed out color pages of A and a then let her use crayons and color. I also grabbed her alligator little people and her play apple from her kitchen.

Coloring her A

One mistake I made was had the alligators and apple sitting where she could see them so of course she did like one little scratch of color on each page and was done so she could play with the toys. I also had made a list of some A letters, I did them in green cuz that was the color of the week. After she was done I got the great idea to tape all the art work for the week on to the kids door.

The artwork from Monday with list of words

Wednesday we had friends coming over so we didn't get much done, I had cleaning to do.

Thursday we did the craft projects which I got from this great blog she's got some great ideas! We made an A alligator.

M's A Alligator

And then painted an a red to make an apple. We had to let it dry and I did cut it out we just never finished it....that will be first this Tuesday.

Painting her a to make an apple

Friday we did apples! On Wednesday morning we ran to Walmart and picked up one of each of the types of apples they carried. Which amazingly was 6 different ones! We had Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Red Delicious, Fuiji, Gala, and Macintosh. I cut each one in half through the centers then cut one half into slices and the other half left alone. I put them all on a plate(except for the Fuiji, which ended up having a huge bug hole in the top of it I didn't notice).

M checking out the different apples

Then I let M try them and look at how all the centers were a little different. She really liked that. After she got to look at all the centers and colors I went and cut up them up so that N and Daddy could have some later.

M trying the Granny Smith

She decided that the whole half of the Golden Delicious was much better

Over all the week went really good I think. I did come up with another idea yesterday. I printed out the same Aa coloring pages I let her color on and painted them the color of the week. While I was doing that I let her paint one too, and use an A sponge I have. I also painted the Bb for this week. After they dried I cut them out and laminated them. I'm taping the letter we are on to the door also, then moving them to the top of the wall in their room so when we are done we will have the whole alphabet up as a little boarder on the wall.

Tuff Week

It's only Wednesday and I'm already looking forward to the week being over! It's just been very draining emotional and physically. First it's been extra hot out so that really drains me and makes me feel so lazy cuz, well I have been lazy cuz I just physically don't have the energy to do much. Then it's Mother's Day week which is always a little hard for me, but this year is the first time I'm pregnant during this week. It's like a double wammy!

I also am looking at doula's this week. I really wanted someone at the birth that could really help me remember to focus and remember all the things to try to help with pain management. hubby's very supportive, but when it comes to me(or the kids) in pain, he just wants us to be better, pain free. Plus, he's always nervous too, just being in the hospital, being a dad again. Anyways, so there really isn't anyone that can also come to the hospital to help, everyone I would want either lives way to far or will be one of the people that can watch the kids when we are at the hospital(which I haven't even figured out all that yet*sigh*). So I thought about a doula, I found two in our area. One I've talked to and she sounds great but it's way more then we can afford. She does have classes that if the second lady is also to much or I don't feel connected to, I'm going to see about at lest me going to the classes. She only has one spot left so I have to decide this week. I don't know it's just a lot, or at lest it feels like a lot of things to think about.

Truthfully, most of the time all I want to do is go crawl in bed till everything is worked out, but that would be never, so I guess that will not work huh!