Week One of Letter Bb in Review

Well, this week started out well.  We had a great Monday, but then I decided to sprain my foot at MOPs on Tuesday morning which totally threw off the rest of the week.  At least letter Bb didn't stand for Broken Bones.  Consequently, we didn't keep to the plan after that first day.  Instead we did a lot of the following...

The indoor playground is always a hit.

By Wednesday, I was at least able to walk, but looked like this.

Button likes the indoor playground too, but refused to let me take off his coat.

Lots of train tracks were made.  I heard a lot of  "Mommy, come play with me." And he heard a lot of "Honey, it hurts mommy to get down on the ground with my hurt foot."  He took it pretty well though.

I learned to give him activities to do at the table.  It would have been best if I could have stayed motivated to do what I actually had planned this week, but being hurt really made this hard.  We played a lot of playdough, and we got out our Lauri Toys Primer Pack that he hasn't seen in a few months.  Rotating toys is the best!

I don't think Little Buddy gets the concept of the playdough mat.  At least he has fun!

Button liked it too, and he didn't eat it this time!!!

Locktagons

He actually figured out how to do lacing for the first time.

So, in this sort of backwards post, here is what we actually did accomplish that was part of the original plan...

We read our ABC Bible Verse book a few times, and talked about being peacemakers.  This was great.  We used our Bible verse in our daily interactions with brother especially.  I've never liked the idea of quoting Scripture at your children all the time, mostly because I was afraid that I'd only do it when they were doing something bad.  But, having a verse of the week makes it so that we talk about what it means in everything we do - good and bad.  Not to mention, we only focus on one Scripture at a time.  Little Buddy really wanted to be a peacemaker.  We also enjoyed doing our craft to go along with it.

Monday morning was a lot of fun.  Not only did we get to do a craft, but we read one of Button's current favorite books, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?  We, of course, got to use our Do-A-Dot paints for Bb and our Brown Bear.

Then, Little Buddy had a great idea about making a bear cave in the living room.  The boys had tons of fun playing in it although Little Buddy kept saying that he was a doggy, and that mommy was the bear.  (Guess what we'll be focusing on for Dd!)  We even read some of our bear books under the blanket.

Our M&M sort, we did on another day, but Little Buddy was excited about the candy.  He hasn't had any since our Advent calendar ended so it was a real treat to have some after the activity was over.

We also did our art study with Van Gogh's Starry Night.  We got Mike Venezia's Van Gogh in both book and DVD form from the library which we've been really enjoying.

So, that was our week in a nutshell.  I should have my walking boot off on Tuesday next week which should make for a more motivated mommy.  Since there were so many fun Bb things to do and I kept finding more, we are going to do Letter Bb again next week.  We even picked up some new bear books on Friday that we get to talk about!