Last bit of Lazies

We've had a slow start to our new year, and didn't do any official Tot School this past week. Mostly it was because we had big plans to tackle THIS:

Love Bug so wants to be a big girl, and she's super excited about all of it, but we aren't quite there yet. I'm a kid-paced mama, and after a few days of trying, a few hits and more misses, we packed it all up.

Love Bug down right refused, and pushing isn't the way to go. There is only so much encouragement you can do before it becomes persuasion.

We'll revisit it in a month or so.

We have also been busy trying to get the plans together for Love Bug's birthday party at the end of next month, as well as Jedi's party at the end of THIS month.

I'm a planner, and I'm so glad I decided to crack down on a theme for the party because I've been so very blessed with some great deals on item for it.

Here is a little teaser of what we have planned for her theme.

I CAN'T WAIT...and neither can she. She's been telling everyone who will listen that she's having "a fairy party tomorrow!!" Not quite tomorrow, but fairy indeed. She spend several hours shopping for fairy items on clearance from Christmas with me and Grandma this week-- dressed in her Tinkerbell costume. Talk about making a magical scene.

We also did a few things the previous week that I had failed to mention.

We did our traditional Gingerbread houses.  We do them after Christmas so we can get some great deals on clearance candy.

 Love Bug ate an Oreo and then licked her lips...nice mustache.

 We got a *tiny* bit of snow and Love Bug and Jedi just HAD to go out to play in it.

 There really wasn't much to play in. Love Bug cried at naptime when she had to come in, and by the time she woke up it had all melted. :(

We also took a tour and signed up Love Bug for Preschool in the fall. I found a local school that I'm really excited about. We are planning to do home preschool two days a week and away school three half days a week. Love Bug is so excited for school. She has to see three of her siblings go to school every day, and she's left behind.

This year we are adding more reading and math to Tot School. Love Bug is doing a great job with all her letters and is beginning to get the concept of them making words. She tries to read the words in books and does a great job of tracking the words and putting her own story in its place based on the pictures on that page.

We are also going to focus more on identifying lower case letters and different fonts.

Somewhere in all of this, I also need to convince Love Bug that writing is fun. She's not a huge fan of that or cutting. We've got plenty of time though.