Letter A

We did finger painting. This was a huge success as Lydia walked around with her "art work" for days! 

Lydia worked hard many days on making "A" but most importantly her name. Which most days her name is spelled "D-E-A-N-N-A". Little ears are always listening when you are on the phone! 

Counting out syllables. Hard work takes lots of concentration! 

 And a little silliness :)

Lydia has been having her "morning Bible study" on the couch. 

Making presents for Uncle Robert and a new cousin.

A Quiet Week At Home

After the whirlwind of activity that we had for July I have been so thankful to have a very quiet August! Hoping that it stays that way.

Lydia and I have enjoyed reading lots of books. Playing with babies. Making lots of food. Baking in the real kitchen. Playing outside.

I haven't taken many pictures but one day Lydia was having a fashion show and you can't have a fashion show without a photographer!!!!

"Sad Face"

Trampoline Adventures

Lydia has dragged many a person out to play with her on the trampoline. (And yes, I have even gone and played too!)

Convincing her Dad of something... No telling what! 

Lydia dragged her Pappaw out to the trampoline only to get scared that it was going to storm and go running inside. Leaving Pappaw jumping on the trampoline by himself. haha :)

Sewing Projects

We have been busy crafting and sewing at our house. Lydia has been "helping" me make a masculine boppy cover. Her biggest contribution was picking out the colors (and look no hot pink or glitter!). 

Lydia is really into making faces right now. This is her mean face that if she holds it long enough a huge giggle breaks through! 

The surprised face of Lydia! 

We are still working on a very special baby blanket made by Lydia. We are maybe halfway through. Lydia is enjoying the process greatly and I hope her brother likes his special blanket! 

Lydia's Work

We learned about the letter C this week. Lydia was the queen of coloring pages this week. Every time I turned around she had another handful of crayons asking to do "just one more page". 

Eventually I convinced her doing a craft would be fun. Glue is always fun :)

James got home from work and Lydia was informing him "I am busy right now". 

Dot Art on the word "LOOK". 

Lydia was soooooo involved in her work pages this week we went back and printed off some pages from other sections that she liked ALLOT! Apparently the letter "M" is awesome ;) 

POKE Page! 

A Mommy Day!

For as long as Lydia can remember I have been teaching on Mondays (mornings - not sure that she remembers when I taught in the afternoons too since it has been a year since I did that!). But my last day of teaching was last Monday. I had briefly talked with Lydia about this but really I am with her every other morning so is it really going to be that BIG of a change???

Yesterday we were playing outside and Lydia was ofcourse talking. She was telling me what she does all week. "Today was church day so tomorrow is play with Miss Erica day". (Miss Erica watched Lydia while I taught). I told Lydia that I wasn't teaching any more so I would be home with her.

Lydia's response, "Oh, a MOMMY day. I like Mommy days".

A sweet response that made me happy. Ofcourse I am thinking to myself "everyday is a Mommy day but glad you are excited"! HAHA!

Lydia's Work

Last week we printed off lots of activities all about the letter M and the sight word "I".

Lydia enjoys the one letter sight words as she thinks it is sooooo cool that a letter can be a word AND a letter. Later in life she will understand why people laugh when she announces she can read the word "I" (or "A"). Right now though she doesn't understand the joke!

Reading her Letter M Book

Making a Marshmellow "M" that needed to be painted purple

New markers are sooooo fun!