Boston Beanz: January 2014

Monday, January 27, 2014

Proof

... of why it is impossible to get a good picture of the two of them together!!

One of Wee M's greatest achievements over the past few months has been her willingness to try new foods. Like her older brother, she will now try most anything for dessert. It usually needs some prompting and help, but eventually it gets in her mouth. If she doesn't like the taste, she doesn't spit it out anymore - she will fill her mouth with milk and sit there deciding what to do with a mouth full of icky food and milk! She continues to have some meals where she will eat more than anyone else at the table!

Wee M and Chippy are playing together very well. I'd almost say that they are both pretty similar with their imaginative play. Wee M loves to play with 'baby' - wrapping her in her blanket and carrying her around or putting her in the dolly trolly. She will also pretend to give you food out of the pretend kitchen telling you that it's hot and that you should blow on it. Her favourite toy right now has to be baby (cabbage patch baby from her birthday). Chippy can suggest that they do something imaginative and she'll say 'okay!' and be right in there with him - even if she isn't 100% sure what's he's doing.

She's into doing crafts, playing outside, and lots and lots of hide and seek. She also loves her iPad games! One of our greatest challenges (see persistence below) is when she sees the iPad and isn't given a chance to play her games. Shrieks of 'iPad' ensue.

Her favourite books right now are: Each Peach Pear Plum, Little Owl Lost, Catapiller's Spring Time Day, and Caillou. She able to sit through much longer books now and she is taking more of an interest. She likes it, and is more engaged, when we ask her questions throughout the book.

We have been working on her colours and her animals for the past few weeks. Let's just say that we're still working on them! She generally knows her colours and can usually indicate the colour if given a couple of options. Black and white and orange seem to be the best so far (other than the guesses of pink or yellow for everything else).

Something that Wee M can do better than Chippy is blow her nose! They both have sniffles right now and Wee M can give a hard blow with no problem! I don't think Chippy knew how to blow his nose until he was at least 3 1/2!

One of Chipette's endearing traits is her persistence! This girl can kick up a fuss until you come in to make things right. Yesterday she had quite a long afternoon nap, so she was not so keen on going to bed at night. She had four tight tucks and she was still asking for more. She must have carried on for an hour before she finally realized she wasn't getting another one!

Chippy Update

Chippy has been a very, very good boy these last few months! Not to say he doesn't have his moments, but he genuinely tries to be good and he genuinely says sorry when he has done something wrong. Can't ask for more than that!

His #1 passion continues to be lego (see picture where he fell asleep during his quiet time with lego in hand). He likely spends upwards of 2 hours a day playing lego in his room on days that he is at home. Second to lego has to be books - specifically books about super heroes. His favourite book right now is one that has Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman all working together to save the world! We have him sounding out some of the words as we read. He does get frustrated easily when trying to read out loud, but he can still spend a long time reading on his own in his quiet time or first thing in the morning.

His drop offs at school this week have been perfect. Marsha says that he is doing well and his daily report cards indicate that he's usually playing with Charles and Oliver in their free time. He was song picker 3 days in a row and he thought it was quite funny that he picked 'Off to the Moon' each time.

He continues to eat very well - he'll eat anything to earn a dessert!

He is a good sleeper, too. He usually doesn't get to bed until about 8:30pm after reading, but he'll sleep in until after 7am almost every day. I think Wee M normally wakes him up as he is usually up shortly after she is.

We often ask the kids who their top friends are. It is consistently the same answer now -- Chippy is Chippette's and Chippette is Chippy's!!

Perfect Monday

Chippy and Chippette were perfect kids at a 'running house' this morning ... So perfect that mummy took them to IHOP for lunch where they continued to be (nearly) perfect!

Carlyn's Birthday

Cream Puffs!

Friday, January 24, 2014

The Next JJ Johnson

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Blue

Yesterday we did our annual blue hand and foot painting. It was an unusually successful craft where the kids had fun, they were well behaved and there was minimal mess! Amazing! AND, best of all, Chippy was the photographer for Wee M. He remarked on how much he liked taking the pictures!

After craft decorating project!

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Just Another Saturday in Boston

Morning at the Children's museum where we had the chance to pet a skunk!! Then off to the fire truck museum and home to make a snowman!

Friday, January 17, 2014

The Box Slide

Possibly not the safest activity, but they were well occupied for over an hour!!

It was all their own idea - including the stool at the back!

Brown Bear

Wee M's Brown Bear!

Friday, January 10, 2014

Port Colborne Vacation

We had a good time on our Port Colborne vacation! Chippy spent 98% of his time playing lego and Chippette spent 98% of her time playing 'seek'! Both were easily bribed into being good by the Santa Claus pez machine! We went to the Port Colborne Best Start for three mornings and the kids throughly enjoyed it. Chippy liked the building bench and the construction vehicles - and he was the best participant in circle time! Chipette spent most of her time cooking cupcakes and cookies and jumping into the ball pit!