Play-doh, Finger Jell-o

Using the "garlic press" play-doh toy

Yummy Finger Jell-o

Reading Paddington Bear with Paddington Bear

Just a few activities of the end of the summer (I'm posting a bit late). Emily has loved playing with play-doh recently and has gotten quite good at using some of the tools in our play-doh set. It's always a fun activity when we are having a quiet morning.

We made finger jell-o for Emily. It was a huge treat and she loved eating it. We've finished it so I'm debating what flavor/color we should try next. Maybe purple or orange would be fun?!?

We have started going to our library again. They are renovating the children's room so all the kids books are crammed into a very small area of the adult section. And the storytimes are postponed until it reopens. The children's room used to have plenty of space to move around and look at books and there was no concern about the volume of little voices. Emily was good about being fairly quiet, but it was still hard without much room to move. We're looking forward to the new children's room re-opening next month, we hope! When I tell Emily to use her quiet, library voice, she says "Elmo's Opposites." Initially I had to wonder what she was talking about, but we have a book called "Elmo's Opposites" that talks about loud and then quiet voices and mentions the library. Funny how she connect it all. We checked out several books including "Madeline" (one of my childhood favorites) as well as several newer books. We also got "Paddington" and we read that to her while she held her Paddington Bear that Aunt Jill gave her when she was born. Emily enjoyed having a special bear to hold for the story.

We returned those library books today and checked out some new ones. She was very good about pushing the books through the return book slot and is enjoying her new books. We've been walking to the library which has been nice! Hopefully we can continue that most of the winter except on the coldest of days.