2010
A Year in Review
Wow! I knew there had been lots accomplished this year and lots of growth and change, but looking back over my posts I was struck with the awesomeness of it all. While I started my blog back in August of 2009, I didn't start posting regularly until January. Fortunately, in January I was still feeling pretty good and we were really accomplishing things. Here are several special memories from each month (boy was it hard to narrow it down).
January
Amelia stringing the noodles we dyed (I can't believe it's been a year since we did that)
First introduction to Montessori
An attempt at making homemade potpourri
Our Pizza Picnic Party
February
Making playdough
More Montessori (one to one corresponding, it was tonging for Tabitha though) and using the Build a Letter Alphabet
Working with our movable alphabet
Tabitha's new computer
The Queens of Hearts (and they made tarts)
March
We made Recycled Robots
One to one counting on numerals
Visit to the deer park to get postcards for the postcard exchange
A rainbow/Noah's Ark cake
April
Working on telling time
Amelia has always liked working with the shaker jar activities, whether there are pipe cleaners or toothpicks available.
Working with our felts. She was pairing them up.
And of course, April brought us our precious Hannah.
She got to go home on my birthday (silly C-Section)
Arrival home
With Tabitha
And Amelia (and Krystal)
May
Kite flying at the park with daddy
Our upside down cake
Vegetable eating chart
Attempting to grow vegetables.
June
Playing our Octopus Domino game
Tabitha starting to write, all on her own. Can you see "cat" and "hat" in there?
Reading 3 and 4 letter phonetic words I typed.
Playing the Winnie the Pooh/watermelon seed game I created
July
Amelia's letter/sound cards (she would get a sticker on each card if she knew the letter or sound)
Tabitha with her word cards (she has at and ad word family cards)
Finishing up the alphabet, finally
Matching magnetic letters (I also had her match upper to lower case, Amelia wasn't quite ready for this)
Making our yummy frozen yogurt pops
Writing her name herself
Movable alphabet with 3 letter word cards
Over the summer we worked on numbers and
colors.
August
The beginning of our Alphabet Scavenger Hunt
The beginning of our tadpole observation
Play time with daddy
Our dandelion hunt
She refused to have her picture taken nicely.
And of course, Hannah's first football game.
September
Learning to wash dishes
Our new school area ready to go
Our new poster, with its debut letter
Start of our caterpillar observation
First introduction to the sand paper letters
Told you she still likes this activity
Our second Pizza Party
October
This is how Hannah was "participating" (translation: letting mommy work with older sisters)
Working on making "Zoe's Purple Pants"
Hannah just starting to sit up
She loves this activity that we started originally with the letter p after seeing it over at My Tot Learning Time
They just loved putting on their If You Give a Mouse a Cookie puppet show
Simple sorting and graphing activity
Hannah's first scribble. Unfortunately I can't get her to do any more as she is more interested in eating the crayons.
November
Leaf Men!
Our season tree
The girls love to paint and I love doing projects with paper towel rolls because they are so easy for the girls to hold while they paint. These became T's
One of our many Muffin Tin Mondays. I love that they just started signing spontaneously.
Some daddy lesson time. Tabitha is working on her reading lessons.
Hannah sitting with out needing support. I love having her right there with the girls like she is joining in.
Tabitha teaching Hannah to sign butterfly. I love that it looks like Hannah is trying.
Tabitha teaching Amelia
Amelia and Hannah
December
Lovely snow storm to christen our weather duck.
This is how I kept Hannah safe. Surrounded by soft toys.
I love having Hannah do crafts too.
The girls really enjoyed Story Time and are not quite understanding why we haven't gone this week. I told them it will start back up in February.
Daddy brought the walker up out of the basement to I can contain Hannah a bit if I need to. Oh, and help to strengthen her legs.
Working on our review books.
The girls have to wait upstairs on Christmas morning so mommy can record first reactions. Aren't I mean.
Hannah's first Christmas stocking.
Whew! I made it through the year. If you made it to the end of this post, thank you. I didn't mean for it to be so long, but there were so many special memories.
I decided that it would be fun to have a linky so you could share your 2010 memories. So if you would like to participate just link up a blog post and please link back to this post so others can enjoy our reminiscing. The linky will be open for a week!
May the Lord bless you in the New Year
Awww...I love this!! I remember just about every single one of your pictures too!
ReplyDeleteBlessings and Honor to HIM in 2011!!