Pre-Halloween Activities

 Sensory Tub - We changed out the old beans for new black beans and added in little spider rings and halloween erasers!  Then we just use kitchen supplies, a pot, spoons, and measuring cups.  Caydin loves the sensory tub and asks for "beans" all the time (not to eat, just to play - HA)!

 We added form stickers to this pumpkin during our free play at music class.  Caydin was very focused and liked sticking the stickers on.

 We made Monster Mash and Caydin got to mix all the ingredients! Candy corn, m&m's, and peanuts!  Caydin doesn't care for the candy corn or peanuts but he does love YELLOW m&m's!

 We worked on the letter P for pumpkin and used crayons to color a little pumpkin that I cut out.  I thought it was neat that he focused most of his scribbles on the P.

Rob and Caydin used markers to decorate this pumpkin.  Rob was working on the colors green and blue on the side! HA! Caydin liked when Daddy put the spirals on his pumpkin!

A walk down Halloween Lane!!

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Caydin this month...

...loves his cars, trains, and airplanes.

...loves toy animals. 

...loves to say "Come on Mommy, play"

...counts all the time but never has the numbers in the right order.

...will pat my head if I pretend cry.

...throws mega tantrums and likes to tell us to "go away" before slamming the nearest door. 

...turns on and off the lights... makes for hours of fun.

...loves to tell us to "WAKE UP" in a high, loud, squeeky voice (thank god he is still in his crib).

...hates having his diaper off. (Usually the start of mega-tantrums).

...is very polite and always tells you when you've done a "good job"

...doesn't like to change clothes (and doesn't like potty training)

...is afraid of lit up pumpkins, his silly music teacher all dressed up, and his pirate halloween costume.

...if waking up in the middle of the night, he will call "Mommy" now instead of just screaming.

...insists that mommy give him a bath, feed him, play with him, read to him (you get the point).  He loves his daddy but only when Mommy is at work!

...found his I STINK garage truck book and has read it a thousand and two times since he found it 2 days ago.  Grandma asked that I lose it again, but Caydin always wants to sleep with it too!

...loves the color yellow.  Last night, he dumped out my hat box and said "no" to each one until he came to the yellow one, then he started cheering and staying "hooray!"

...has an electric Thomas toothbrush now that has made teeth time much more pleasant!

...understands what Time Out is and never wants to go there! HA!

...is super into his bean sensory tub.  He loves to use mixing spoons and pans to move the beans around!  I found an idea to use black beans and spiders for Halloween so I think I might switch out the tub this weekend :)

(Ok, I think thats enough!)

Wordless Wednesday - Haircut

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Hoop Jumping

Carter and Caydin had so much fun jumping through the hola hoops last week in Kindermusik!  Ava liked it so much that she was ready to join in!

Pumpkin Lesson

Warning: I follow way too many toddler blogs :)

I found this idea online and thought I'd try it out with Caydin.  He has mastered all of his chucky puzzles and loves doing them so this activity was right down his lane! I used old scrapbook paper and a file folder to make the game.  Caydin liked trying to match up the pumpkins with their right color.  It was a pretty hard activity for Caydin (I guess the colors were too similiar) but he liked doing the game with me helping. 

After he played the matching game twice, he thought it would be funny to mow the game over using his lawn mower!  Great game addition Caydin, great game!

Caydin visits the pumpkin patch!