December 28, 2009

Tot School ~ CHRISTMAS!

~Krash is currently 43.5 months old~

We arrived down south on Dec 21 and have been enjoying both sets of grandparents!  Krash has soaked up the fun in every way!  Before Christmas, his favorite thing was definitely having room to ride (unlike where we live)! IMG_7696

He is amazing on his Strider Bike, we LOVE this bike!IMG_7817

He has enjoyed having our dog, Bower, outside to play with more!IMG_7825They are quite funny together! IMG_7827Christmas brought Krash many new toys (way too many actually), and he was a sweetheart through it all!  He loved everything he got and was very thankful!IMG_4593IMG_8239 Santa showed up for a quick visit as he was out in my parent’s neighborhood!  K was scared of him, unless Daddy held him!IMG_8177We wore the little guy out!  He fell asleep on the couch on Christmas Eve during the family get-together!IMG_8338 It was a fun, but BUSY week.  I am thankful for all of our family Bible nights in December when we focused on Christ, quietly as our own little family.  Christmas with tons of extended family is fun, but it isn’t very spiritual.  We have 1 more week down here to enjoy family, then it’s back to real life!

If you have a tot (approximately ages 1-3) at home, join in the fun and share what you’re doing with your tot! Here’s how to get started if you’re new… If you’ve never read this: Go HERE 1st for more details- please do! Then if you have any ideas you’d like to share, link up your exact post to MckLinky (links to homepages will automatically be deleted).

When you add your name(blog name) to MckLinky will you put your tot’s age (in months) after it, like this: 1+1+1=1 (41 mos)? I think this will help new readers a lot as they look for ideas for their specific aged tot!

If you are NEW will you please leave a comment letting us all know so we can be sure to visit you?

There was a great suggestion for us all to add our tot’s bday month/year to the list. If you would like to do that, I would be glad to add it to those of you who comment here with this info. Just put your blog name and then the age like this (6/06). I will add it to the webpage!

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December 24, 2009

Merry CHRISTmas!

 

Wishing you a wonderful time celebrating the birth of our Savior!

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December 21, 2009

Tot School ~ No School

Krash is currently 43 months old~

We had a week off of school, as we will for the next 2 weeks while we head down south to visit family, but learning still continues in the life of a tot!  Here’s a few moments I managed to capture of Krash this week!

We read lots of Christmas books!  He really liked Spunky’s First Christmas, a LOT!!!IMG_7459

He helped Kirsten (our college “daughter”) bake some… IMG_7444

He he babysat Ladybug for me, and made sure she had all of her toys piled in her lap!!!  As he proceeded to run around the house with his wrapping paper tube…his new favorite toy.IMG_7451


I snowed a TON where we are and Krash played in it for hours with Pac Man!   IMG_4226IMG_4232 IMG_4247They even went out at night!  We were amazed with his lack of whining, we thought he would only make it a few minutes!  Little did we know!IMG_7574 I will be posting Tot School for the next 2 weeks while we are away, and plan to use this to recap K’s holiday and travel fun.  I may or may not be on the blog much other than that, depends how I am feeling while away!  Sometimes I get all anti-blogging, sometimes I am all over it…I will just go with the flow ~ you may or may not see me between Tot School posts!


If you have a tot (approximately ages 1-3) at home, join in the fun and share what you’re doing with your tot! Here’s how to get started if you’re new… If you’ve never read this: Go HERE 1st for more details- please do (this is still linked to the old website for now)!!! Then if you have any ideas you’d like to share, link up your exact post to MckLinky (if you have questions about how to do that, let me know in a comment or email-links to homepages will automatically be deleted).

When you add your name(blog name) to MckLinky will you put your tot’s age (in months) after it, like this: 1+1+1=1 (41 mos)? I think this will help new readers a lot as they look for ideas for their specific aged tot!

If you are NEW will you please leave a comment letting us all know so we can be sure to visit you?

There was a great suggestion for us all to add our tot’s bday month/year to the list. If you would like to do that, I would be glad to add it to those of you who comment here with this info. Just put your blog name and then the age like this (6/06). I will add it to the webpage!

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December 19, 2009

What’s New on 1plus1plus1equals1.com

 

Whats new

Christmas Tot Pack…

I added more printables, photos, links to the “More Christmas Fun” section, and also a new blog to “Have you Made this Tot Pack?”

Mommy’s iTouch Apps

I added some new Apps I have found and love for my iTouch, I have also started to add Podcasts ~my newfound love!

Brown Bear Brown Bear Tot Pack…

New blog linked under “Have you Made this Tot Pack?”

Join Tot School

I finally updated this portion of the webpage!

Tools for Tots

I added a felt snowman sent in by a reader!  Be sure to send in any links you’d like to see over there!

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December 16, 2009

Raising Rocks Stars ~ CHRISTmas…Nativity Story

 

We read the Christmas story from The Anytime Bible, which continues to be one of our favorite Children’s Bibles (my full review is here).  We also used our Fisher Price Nativity to highlight the characters in the story.   IMG_7428It was a good idea in theory, although K was out of sorts this night and all he really cared to do was make the stable sing “du-du-du-du-du” (when you push the top it sings Away in a Manger and he loves it).  It took some real effort to get through the entire story (from the angel to the wise men).

 

We were blessed to have guests with us for our family time, “Kiki” is our college “daughter” (she lived with us for over 2 years while she was in high school), and a good friend J.  They helped us color our Happy Birthday Jesus coloring book…IMG_7433

Krash also worked on his puzzle from our Christmas Tot Pack… IMG_7437

He also dot-painted the Happy Birthday Jesus sheet (which he was extremely disturbed about since I created the circles a bit too big for the dot paint)…note to self-make sure the circles are exact to avoid trouble from this particular little guy.  IMG_7440

We also talked about getting a gift for Jesus for HIS birthday.  We talked about what He wants most from us, discussing love and service to others mainly.  We selected an item to give to Jesus from the World Vision Gift Catalog.  We let Pac Man select and he chose a fishing kit and 2 chickens.  We discussed how these gifts would help someone else and why Jesus would want this for Christmas.IMG_7438

I will not be posting another Raising Rock Stars post until after the new year, probably Jan 12.  I will schedule this MckLinky to be open until the next one goes up, so feel free to add any posts you do between now and then to this one!

Resources used this week:

Visit the Raising Rock Stars Webpage to download your own notebook pages and to see links to previous Rock Stars posts! Please read there or here before you add your link.

 

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