Tot School

Lucas is 36 months. Gwendolyn is 14 months.

I had a 'catch up' post last week. But I didn't realize that there were still pictures on the camera. SO this is another catch up post along with what we did this week :)

::Play-doh I finally let Gwendolyn play with play-doh and it was a huge hit! She still tries to eat it and tries to rub it into the couch. But it is so worth the effort to have her play with it- she LOVES it! And Lucas is always happy to get to play with it! We have had it out almost every day, but this is the only picture because it requires close supervision.
::Egg cartons Lucas loves finding small toys to put into egg cartons to make 'presents' for Gwendolyn to open. He's always looking for ways to be nice to his little sister :)


::Tools Lucas has been using his wooden tool set this week. It amazes me how long he can stay focused on it. He also finds alternate uses for some of the pieces. In this picture, he was stuffing a wooden nail into the top of a turkey baster and shooting it across the room. Creative!
::Water play Gwendolyn has been fascinated with water lately. One of her favorite activities is shaking water bottles. And dumping glasses of water on the floor. And playing in puddles on the floor :)
::Blocks no week would be complete without blocks.

::Funny nail thing I have no idea what it's called :) But the kids love it!! Lucas puts his little cars and trucks in it to see car and truck shapes in the nails. And Gwendolyn loves sticking her feet on it and poking each individual nail with her finger.
::Lights there is something so entertaining to small people about lights. They love waving their fiber optic lights around.

::Building Lucas has been creating all sorts of things to play with lately. He made a bridge for his trucks to drive on out of a piece of cardboard held up by a table and a chair. And when a certain small girl came and sat on the bridge and collapsed it, he added a second piece of cardboard and another chair under the middle of the bridge. He was so satisfied with his extra sturdy bridge. After he tried driving his trucks back and forth on it a few times, he told us he was leaving it out for Gwendolyn to play with. He is so amazingly tolerant of her :)
::Fall fun I filled up a wooden bowl with orange, green and purple pom poms and craft sticks. And googly eyes. The contents were intended to go into a sensory tub of rice, but Lucas found the bowl and wandered off with it. So now it's a transferring activity. Lucas was entertained that he could pick the craft sticks up with tongs.I cut pumpkin shapes out of gold paper and gave Lucas cut up bits of the gold paper to glue onto the pumpkins. He loved doing this and asked to hang them up on the window when he was done. (yes, I know gold isn't really a fall color, but we had a big piece of gold paper laying around and Lucas really wanted to use it. And I really wanted some Lucas-made fall decorations - it was a win win situation)