Learning To Be a Mom: Toddler Time

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Here is another addition to our week of painting while trying not to get any paint on our hands. This activity is very similar to the q-tip activity.

I just gave Sweet Girl some paint and a couple large pom poms. She loves pom poms, so she was very excited about getting to play with them and dip them in paint!

I didn't get a picture of her finished painting, but you get the idea. For this painting Sweet Girl mixed her red and yellow a lot, so we got to talk about orange. And luckily we made it without too much paint on her hands. Every time she gets a little paint on them she holds them out for me to wipe off. I hope she grows out of this.

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Paint week continued Wednesday with Q-Tip Painting. This one was really fun! I squeezed some paint into cupcake liners and gave Sweet Girl some q-tips to paint with. She started out just making dots on her paper, then she realized she could drag the q-tip and make lines.

We talked about green and blue and dots and lines. Whenever she got a little bit of paint on her fingers she held it up for me to wipe off before she continued. The fun eventually stopped because the q-tips got too much paint on them and she wouldn't touch them anymore. But at least we have another original Sweet Girl masterpiece to add to our gallery!

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I have seen so many posts on blogs about kids painting with shaving cream, and since this week is all about painting, I thought it would be fun. But as you can probably guess from the title it was not fun. I'm not sure if I have ever said this before, but Sweet Girl hates having stuff on her hands. She hates finger paint, on her birthday she got upset when she got cake all over her hands. So I don't know why I thought she would like this.

I squirted some shaving cream onto her high chair tray, and that fascinated her. She poked at. I put some on her hands to get her started, and she did not like it. She started to get upset, and when she gets upset she sucks her fingers. Before I could stop her she got a mouthful of shaving cream.

We immediately cleaned up and I let her watch Yo Gabba Gabba, her favorite show. So does anyone want a mostly full can of shaving cream?

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This week for Mommy and Me School, Sweet Girl and I are exploring painting. We started with toilet paper roll painting. I just squeezed some finger paint into a container and gave her an old toilet paper roll, and she got right to work.

I think her favorite part was when a bubble would form on the bottom of the toilet paper roll as she lifted it out of the paint. It just fascinated her. And here is her finished masterpiece.

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Sweet Girl and I had a lot of fun celebrating the Olympics this week, but not every activity turned out quite like I planned.

This was our shot put activity. The original plan was for her to throw her bean bags in the hula hoop on the floor. The problem was she had so much fun watching me hula hoop while she laughed at me, that she wouldn't leave the hula hoop on the floor. She kept bringing it to me so I would hula hoop. She got really mad every time I put it back and threw a bean bag into it. So we tried using a laundry basket instead, but she couldn't quite figure out that she was supposed to throw the bean bags. At least Sweet Girl had a great time grabbing the beans bags and running them to the laundry basket and dropping them in.

As for our hurdles, I rolled up towels and placed them around the living room for Sweet Girl to run and jump over. She had a blast! It was so funny watching her run and "jump" over the hurdles. Unfortunately she is so fast that I could not get a single usable picture to share. I finally gave up and we just had fun playing which is really the most important thing anyway.

I'll be honest, I am not a big watcher of rhythmic gymnastics, but I have watched it, and while trying to come up with toddler Olympic events I thought it would be fun. And it was a lot of fun. Sweet Girl was so excited to play with the hula hoop.

I turned on some music and she started dancing with her hoop. We talked about in and out as we jumped into and out of the hoop. We talked about up and down.

And at the end Sweet Girl bowed to the judges and waited on her score. It was a solid routine.

The best part of this activity was after we were done and I decided to show Sweet Girl how to actually use the hula hoop. I gave it a spin and started swinging my hips and Sweet Girl started laughing harder than I have ever heard her laugh before. It was so funny! She actually got tears in her eyes from laughing so hard. I don't know if she thought the motion was funny or if it was more that I couldn't actually keep the hula hoop going. Husband got a video of it, but you can see me hula hooping in it and I'm not about to put that up for the world to see. It was such a fun afternoon.

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For the past two weeks I have been almost obsessed with watching the Olympics. I love the gymnastics and the swimming. I watch sports that I know nothing about, but during the Olympics I love it. I have watched a lot of diving, cycling, track and field, and have become a big volleyball fan. So it was time for Sweet Girl and me to celebrate the Olympics in Mommy and Me School fashion. Our first event, Balloon Volleyball.

This is a game I played with my brothers and sisters a lot growing up. We would lay the piano bench on its side to serve as the net and we could be entertained for hours.

Sweet Girl had so much fun chasing the balloon around. Although she really needs to work on her volleyball skills. It was so cute!

Just look at how in awe she is of my volleyball skills.

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My nephew inspired me for this activity. He is two years old and he loves to make pretend soup. Every time they come to visit he gets out a pot and ladle and gets to work on his soup. It is so cute. For Mommy and Me School I gave Sweet Girl a pot, a spoon, a bowl and a bag of magnetic alphabet letters. She got right to work on her soup. She poured the letters in, mixed them around and then served them in the bowl. She had a great time playing with this all afternoon.

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Sweet Girl has a few phrases that are just so cute that they can always make me smile. One of them is when she gets really excited and she says "Oh boy!" That's what she said when she got up from her nap and I showed her the contact paper I had taped to our glass door.

We had the best time playing with this. I added some of the foam letters we bought for her to play with in the tub clear back when she first started taking baths in the big people tub. I also found some foam hands and flowers in my teaching supplies.

We talked about sticky, and I showed Sweet Girl how to stick her hand on the contact paper and peel it off. I told her the names and sounds of the letters and she repeated them. It was so much fun that it is still taped to our back door and Sweet Girl plays with it while I make dinner.

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Several months ago Sweet Girl got a hold of the shampoo bottle in the tub and turned her bath into a surprise bubble bath. I thought she would like it, but it seemed to stress her out to have the bubbles all over her. Now I thought it might be fun to play with bubbles again, but in a smaller scale to prevent frustration.

This time Sweet Girl had a lot of fun scooping bubbles up into her hands. We clapped and sprayed them everywhere, we shook them all over the kitchen and we blew them on each other. Sweet Girl added the word "bubble" to her vocabulary.

As we were playing I remembered that Baby, that's the name of Sweet Girl's baby, was pretty dirty, so I thought we could give her a bubble bath. Sweet Girl had so much fun covering Baby in bubbles, and she came out very clean.

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Sweet Girl and I have done lots of activities to help her develop her fine motor skills. Here is another fun one to add to the list. She was having so much fun the day before playing with the baby food jar from our lids sorting activity that I decided to pull them back out. I also added our colored pasta from a previous activity.

I just set the pasta and the jars out for her (I used my rotary cutter mat to help contain the mess) and let her explore. She immediately started filling the jars with the pasta. We talked about full and empty.

Next we explored sounds. Sweet Girl put the lid on her jar (when I say that I mean she set it on and held it in place, she can't actually screw it on.), and started shaking. She gave me a jar too and we had a little dance party. We love dance parties around here. She also like the sound they made when she hit the jars together. We talked about hitting them softly so they wouldn't break. We spend a lot of time talking about being soft.

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I found this fun lid mix and match activity on Discover, Explore, Learn. She has so many cute ideas on her blog. This activity was perfect for Sweet Girl, who is obsessed with putting lids on and taking them off. Lids can keep her entertained forever. Her favorite part of our ribbon jar activity is always putting the lid on.

For this activity I just pulled out a bunch of containers that I have been saving to play grocery store with. I took off the lids and let Sweet Girl try to match them up and put them on.

Her favorite one was the lid for the salad dressing bottle. She was having so much fun that when it was time for lunch she didn't want to stop, so I let her take one jar to the table with her.

She continued the activity by putting her broccoli in the jar and putting the lid on top. At least she ate her carrots.

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