Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...

JDaniel4s Mom

growing & learning with him

Great Post I Came Across This Week- July 17

By

Each week I travel around the internet visiting blogs. Here are a few posts that I loved, learned from, or gave me great ideas:

 

Mom Related Post

 

Becoming Versed has a great post on potty training called Happy One Year Plus Master J.

 

Fabulous on a Teacher’s Salary has a great Travel Organizer for children. This would be wonderful to have.
Child Related Post

 

Oopsey Daisy has a really fun game called Baby Food Jar Lid Game. I wish I had kept some of the lids from JDaniel’s baby food jars.

 

Attached Mom has a great collection of alphabet crafts in a post called Introducing the Ultimate Craft Collection.

 

Sevin Family has fun photos of one of their children decorating a cake. I think he likes icing.

 

Fowl Single has a great wreath made of cones described in her post-Red, White, Blue, and Tardy. She made it for the 4th of July. I bet you could make it for any holiday.

 

Serving Pink Lemonade has a great post on an Airplane Tray Cover that has really fun activities for kids to do on it.

 

Moore Minutes has an amazing Retro Ice Cream Bar post. I would love to visit her ice cream bar it looks wonderful.

 

 

Thank You!

 

I want to thank Personalized Sketches and Sentiments for giving me the Blogger Buddy Award Below. She is a fellow student in Mrs. Matlock’s Alphabe Class. I love visiting her site.

 

 

Muffin Tin Monday- Digging Into a Good Lunch

By

The blog theme this week is Construction Equipment. JDaniel loves playing with his construction vehicles and reading about them I thought it would be fun for him to eat like one.

He was given Frito’s Scoops to scoop up his taco salad lunch. He had ground turkey, shredded cheese, blueberries, peas with barley, and tomatoes to scoop up like a front loader. This wasn’t an easy task. After several attempts with the scoops, he went for using an orange peel grappler (his hand bent into a claw) to finish his lunch.

signature

Yammering and Yowling for Mommy to Yield

By

When I was little I talked my mom’s ear off. She was forever letting me know she was busy with something. I don’t know if I talked to get her attention or because I just liked to hear my own voice. Maybe I never learned to process thoughts internally. I remember her saying some of what I was saying wasn’t really important or something she needed to know. There weren’t many quiet moments for her when I was around. I seemed to be yammering about something thought or idea all the time.

JDaniel received his mother’s gift of gab. We are constantly chatting about what he notices in the world. There are many “What’s that” statements said every day. He wakes up talking to himself in his bed. Then we chat about what to thank God for in our morning prayers and what he would like for breakfast. This pattern of chats and questions continues for the rest of the day. Unless he gets busy with “work” or reading. Work is done while chatting to himself and reading in done silently most of the time.

Those times of conversation and language sharing are great! I love them. The ones that drive me nuts are the yammering or whining conversations. They are filled with “I want” and “I need”. Sometimes they are accompanied by a foot stump or two.

Yelping or yammering is also done. I think he does it in an attempt to wear mommy down. If he goes on and on about it in a demanding voice, he thinks he will get what he wants it he sticks with the yelping or yammering long enough. It doesn’t seem to work well for him yet he doesn’t seem interested in giving it up. I try to gently remind him that there are other ways to ask. I try removing myself from the area of the house that contains the object of his desire.

I am starting to understand what my mom lived through. Do you think she prayed I would have a child just like me?



Great Posts I Came Across This Week- July 3

By

Each week I travel around the internet visiting blogs. Here are a few posts that I loved, learned from, or gave me great ideas:

 

Mom Related Post:

Katie Dailies wrote a wonderful post called A Love Affair With The Library. It is wonderful to find people that love the library the way my family does.

Living Montessori Now has a great post called How to Teach Your Preschoolers Manners Using Montessori Principles. It has great tips.

Child Related Posts:

The Cow Queen found a way to find alphabet letters and enjoy a visit to a farm at the same time. You need to see her fun letter pictures in her post Farm Alphabet and Making Hay.

Counting Coconuts has a number of 4th of July learning activities I would love to try with JDaniel. The math activity with star and the flag looks so cute. Her post is called Fourth of July Activities.

Crunchy and Green have a great Patriotic Sensory Bin post. I am dying to put together a sensory bin.

Toile in the Family has a great post on how she made a lemonade stand for her family in a post called W is for Wages.

A Beautiful Mess has a recipe of DIY Fourth of July Chalk that looks great. She has pictures that illustrate each step in the process. I need pictures.

 

Recipes:

 

Red Couch Recipes has a wonderful post on how to make Watermelon Rice Krispies.

 

Let’s Dish has an amazing recipe for Homemade Three Musketeer Bars that will make you drool.

 

Be Different… Act Normal has the cutest Independence Day Cupcakes to make. I love Uncle Sam.

 

Teaching Tiny Tots has a great recipe for Broken Glass Jello that creates red, white, and blue stars. This looks so cool.
signature

 

 

 

 

A Garbage Truck Can Be A Parade Float

By

We read a number of books about the Fourth of July this week. Grandma Drove the Garbage Truck by Katie Clark was our favorite by far. Grandma usually runs the office and her sons drive the truck and collect the garbage. On July 4th all three of her sons are sick and it is up to Grandma and her grandson Billy to collect the garbage before the parade. There is a problem. Grandma can barely see over the steering wheel of the truck and she doesn’t drive well. She gets her mailbox, one neighbor’s roses, and another neighbor’s clothesline wrapped around her truck in her attempt to collect garbage. She also ends up at the front of the parade with a ribbon for Most Creative Float. JDaniel thought this book was really funny.

I decided to make JDaniel a garbage truck and have him decorate it. He had a blast.


JDaniel painted it with Bingo markers.

He added stickers to decorate his truck.

signature

Xcellent Yankee Doodle Cupcakes

By

We are trying low sugar desserts at my house this summer. The first one we tried making were these Yankee Doodle Cupcakes. These look and taste yummy. Both JDaniel and Danny loved them. I took them to a play date JDaniel had with his friend Jake. Jake and his mom loved them too.

 

Ingredients:

 

1 box of yellow cake mix

 

12-oz can of diet cherry cola

 

1 tub of fat-free cool whip

 

1 tsp. of blue sugar-free jello

 

1 tsp. of red sugar-free jello

 

 

Directions:
    1. Mix the diet pop with the cake mix.

 

    1. Pour into a greased or sprayed baking pan or 24 cupcake pan.

 

    1. Bake according to box directions, but check often.

 

    1. Mix together half the cool whip with 1 tsp of blue jello. Frost half the cupcakes.

 

    1. Mix together half the cool whip with 1 tsp of red jello and frost the remaining cupcakes.

 

  1. After cake or cupcakes have cooled, top with cool whip and jello mixture.
  2. Enjoy!

This recipe is based on a recipe I found on 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet.

 

 

 

Check Out My Interview on Spell Out Loud!

By

I am happy to be featured in a post on Spell Out Loud! The post is on planning Muffin Tin Mondays called Chalktalk with JDaniel4’s Mom. She did such a nice job with her interview. Please click here and check out her post.

 

Categories

memberships

From the Past