The Every Things Mrs Mumaw : Fort Wayne Lifestyle, Travel & Mommy Blogger

Ah Spring.

Isn't it wonderful? All that warmth, green sprouting up, birds chirping.....

yeah NOT. There is 5 inches of snow on the ground & its a good 15 degrees out.

While the outside is freezing, we are willing spring inside!

We have had a lot going on in our little family, that I will share about once we know more.

We are making the best out of our down time & here is what we have been up to!

While Kensley was napping, Kennedy & I got some quality time together & decorated eggs with the dye she picked out all by herself, glitter eggs; of course :)

Side note: DO NOT OVER BOIL EGGS, THEY WILL EXPLODE.

Writing sissy a message on her egg.

so proud!

Daddy hasn't had a day off in awhile, so when we had him on a Sunday we pulled out all the Easter stops.

Which of course includes MORE egg dying.

Can you ever really dye too many eggs?

such a dork. when the girls look back at our photo books they are gonna think, really dad? you've been this big a dork my WHOLE life ;)

Such a great idea, Kennedy was having a awful time with egg dippers. Wire wisk FTW.

Sister just sat back & took it all in.

Next year she will have little dyed finger tips just like bug!

Daddy wrote a little love note for Mommy on his egg! :)

At one point we lost the wisk & just used our fingers ;)

& what Easter shenanigans wouldn't include Peter Cottontail?

Both the girls' first time watching!

Kennedy picked this out for daddy all by herself.

I bought these cool sprinkle stencils for sugar cookies, total FAIL.

These things DO NOT work. haha

At the end of the day, we decided a visit to the easter bunny was due.

Yeah, did not happen. I thought Kennedy may have a problem. We didn't really even think about Kensley. Kensley screamed like a crazy person. I was HILAROUS.

We did however stop & do something else...

Can you spot it?

Sister got her ears pierced!

She was so proud!

She was little older than I would have liked. Kennedy was 7 months. But it ended up being perfect; & she did perfect!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. We are excited about family, yummy food & lots of eggs hunts! :)

Ive had lots of emails & comments about the things I do with Kennedy for "school"

I decided to post so everyone can see & do too if you want!

All of this is stuff I learned in school {i studied early childhood development} & was a pre school teacher for many years, or off website I have found while googling {ei: toddler fine moto skill activites, toddler montessori ect.}

I will try to post one every Friday. Some maybe Montessori inspiried some may not!

I really believe that we are our childs bigget teachers.

Did you know the first 5 years of a child life the most rapid? & the brain grows by 85%?{,- read that link} That alone, since the girls, mostly kennedy for right now; aren't in daycare I knew I needed to step in.

This first one is a mix of letters, colors & shapes.

What you will need:

-Smock, old t-shirt, or like us just go shirtless ;)

-I used these dot worksheets from Tot School, you can always make your own; I donated to the nice momma for making these for all to use! She also has lower case.

-Dot-a-Dots art set

Benefits:

-Right now we are working on recongition of ABC.

- COLOR: I have her use whatever color I write on the bottom

-SHAPES: the dots are circles, talk about that!

-COUNTING: this is optional, I encourage her to count the circles while she doting

-FINE MOTOR SKILLS: this isnt for all, depending on skills of your tot, screwing & unscrewing the dot-a-dot caps!

First, Show your toddler how do it. Doting just a few for them.

Then let them take over.