New Year Gifts

For the new year i planned to make M an eye spy quilt that i haven't manage to start yet :p
So instead we gave her these " lets learn our first colors " and "number farm" by Paragon Publishing.

that is based on the Old MaDonald's farm and has 15 cute animals. I simply fell in love with this cute set as it has so much potential to grow with. Initially when I presented these to her she was not interested as was busy constructing and re-constructing a "Housh" with the pieces of her shape/color puzzle I made for her a couple of months ago.
She simply loved it and now the "An-ni-mOls" are all over our place :)

December Round Up

Now here are a few highlights from Dec. 08 ( after 4the Dec. of course)
that's our response to Toddler theme "BLUE" 5th Dec.
and some more drawings by M can you spot a lion on the top left corner :)
and an Apppp-Lh!!!

then we also tried a hand on water colors on 16th. though it was more fun with color trays and water than with actual coloring
On 21st we had a brief and very disappointing (for us) trip to Lahore Zoo... but as it was M's first visit so she was pretty happy just watching the "So dear" (Deer) and elephant Suzi...
one to one chat with her SOoo Deer :)

Happy New Year

OK so here is the first post of the new year :) so customarily it should be a round up of last month or last year ....but No the first post of new year is dedicated to my beloved friend who left us earlier last month. Though I planned to post at least one entry per day in December but the tragic death of my best friend and cousin Saira on the 7th of Dec. upset every thing..... I don't even have words to express my feelings, and though after a week or so we returned to our routine but still nothing is same.... I miss her every second of my life.Alas I don't have any of her pictures on this PC :(
And despite the fact that I logged on to my blog and kept a follow up of all the blogs that i love to read and learned so so much, still I don't know why I never manage to write a single post.

Now that its the 1st day of New year I just wanted to thank her for all the happiness she brought in our lives, She was a Perfect friend, perfect sister best Khala to M and the Best Girl i have ever known. We calibrated this new year remembering her so do i want to start the blogging year

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERY ONE :)

FunFelt Book

To satisfy my latest obsession with felt board, yesterday I finally found (surprise surprise coz we usually don't have such stuff here in Pakistan) and right away bought this extremely cute Felt story book "Monkey's Tall Story" by Keith Faulkner. It is illustrated by Jonathan Lambert and has more than 35 felt jungle figures.. initially I was not planning to show this book to M yet because i thought she is too young to understand the concept of creating a story as it is being told.Pluss it had animals that are small and in silhouettes So i was afraid she either wont recognise them or the large number wont let her concentrateBut I was surprised to see that she can actually recognize many animals and had a lot of fun creating her own jungle on the small felt board provided in the book while i read the story to her.
hmmm this just reinforced my interest to create a felt board for her!!
she even put the pieces back after wards isn't that neat !!!

Open and Close

This morning i introduced "open and close activity" to M . She already knows how to open and close simple stuff; that just needs pulling and pushing back, so i also included a few screw tops as well...though I fear this will make it difficult to deceive M in future ... (when she wants to open something and we want otherwise we pretend that we are pulling real hard and still its not opening) but that has to end eventually. and those screw tops were the ones she was more interested in.
Another thing that i introduced with this is the concept of proper "activity mat" I should have introduced it a long time back but to tell you the truth I was not sure how does it work or why was it so important.
First of all it helped giving a structure to the activity, it was much more focused and there was a definitely neat ending giving both of us opportunity to put things back so i guess it will reinforce the concept of tidying up once done * fingers crossed*And then there was this opportunity to pretend :) Here she is putting roll on deo and in the next one the essence bottle is her nail polish