Happy Valentine’s Day! Although I don’t do much with themes, DJ did participate in a Make & Mail Valentine exchange in his toddler playgroup this year. I was so incredibly impressed with the way he chose to paint the hearts. It made me a little sad to not be able to keep them! DJ was playing with his markers the other day, stacking them together and counting them. So I pulled out his number rods to compare each set of…
For his 3rd birthday, DJ received a camera, and not just any camera… a Nikon Coolpix S32. The key features of this camera when purchased for a 3 year old? Waterproof to 33ft, Shockproof to 5ft and only a few, large, easy-to-use buttons. And he loves it! In the three months since he has had this camera, he hasn’t taken any masterpiece photography, but he has captured some interesting shots. Well, some may only be interesting to him, but here…
Earlier this week, DJ surprised me by saying, “Let’s do school!” Before this he hadn’t really shown an awareness that the fun things we do for school were different than playing with toys. I had hesitated initially to even call it school, but so many of his friends are in preschool now, and school is mentioned in books and TV shows and even his hairdresser asked if he’s in school. We worked a lot with the Land & Water forms…
DJ’s birthday was this week and he’s now officially 3 years old. When it came time to light the candles, DJ began singing Happy Birthday to himself! It was adorable. This is a significant milestone for a couple of reasons. First for some background. Maria Montessori described the first six years of life (0-6) as the period of the Absorbent Mind. This is a time when children absorb information like a sponge. She further subdivided this time into an unconscious…