C is at the age where she can go in the kitchen get out her own snack. We set up our kitchen here so she could do that. She has her own special shelf in the kitchen with snacks for her and she has mastered opening the fridge and getting out whatever fruit or veggie she wants to munch on. Well, today our brilliant plan kind of bit me in the butt. This morning while laying half awake on the couch C came over and asked me if she could have some strawberries. Of course I said yes and told her to eat them at the table and try not to make a huge mess. I also told her not to eat the green tops of the strawberries. Now, usually I will cut the green tops but as I said before I was only half awake. About ten minutes later I hear C saying in her sweet little three year old voice "Momma I ate all the stwaberries" Hmmmm all the strawberries???? Immediately I got a little worried and decided to check out what she meant by "all the strawberries." Well, I found a huge pile of strawberries on the tables with just one bite taken out of each of them. I wasn't quite sure I should laugh or get upset that C just took one bite out of every strawberry in a brand new container of them. While I pondered what I should do C chimed in with "See momma I didn't eat the green parts." All I could do was laugh and then explain to her the right way to eat a strawberry. Lesson learned: I need to drag my behind to the kitchen and cut the tops off the strawberries, lol.
After the strawberry incident, I decided it was time for us to make a project. I once again reffered to the brilliant No Time For Flash Cards and saw the idea of making a sensory tub. Hmmm a sensory tub??? I was a bit skeptical about the idea at first but decided it might be alot of fun. So, off we went to Walmart. We picked up a dishwasher tub (in red, Cs choice), 4 bags of dried beans and lentils, some measuring scoops, and various packages of $1 toys. Once we got home with our new supplies off to work we went. C helped dump all the beans in the tub and added all the little toys. I gave her the stack of measuring scoops and just let her imagination go. Wow! I can not believe how much she loved it. As I said before, I was a little skeptical on whether or not this would be fun for her. Of course there was an appeal to the idea to me or else I would have never decided to try it. C sat there for over and hour just scooping, pouring, digging, and just letting her imagination run wild. A little later I grabbed some chopsticks from the kitchen but she wasn't too thrilled with them. The worst part of this whole activity was when I told C it was time to put our tub away and take a nap.
To all my mommy friends who may be reading this, No Time for Flash Cards has some brilliant ideas for activities to do with your kiddo. No, I do not know Allison McDonald or any of the other people who contribute to that site. It was just a blog that I came across and LOVE. It has saved me many times now in finding something new and fun to do with C.
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