She peeled all the bananas, chopped them up into the blender cup added a dash of milk and wizzed them. She requested a strawberry layer in her ice blocks. A few were blended and layered on top (well the bottom) of the ice blocks. The hard part was waiting for them to freeze.
Cakes is a terrible eater. A bite of this here and a bite of that there and she is done for the day. Very different to myself as a child. I could eat and eat some more and still be asking for more food. One thing Cakes has eaten well in her short life is ice blocks. Since she was little I have been blending fruit and freezing it. Recently we picked up a huge bag of bananas for 0.99 cents. Cakes was very excited to be involved in making them.
She peeled all the bananas, chopped them up into the blender cup added a dash of milk and wizzed them. She requested a strawberry layer in her ice blocks. A few were blended and layered on top (well the bottom) of the ice blocks. The hard part was waiting for them to freeze.
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Cakes and I have been discussing Australia day (Australia's national day celebrated on the 26th of January) recently as she is into time lining events (mostly in the lead up to her birthday in May). When asked what she knows about Australia she said "It is my home and the Wiggles home". With a little prompting she added that "We have beaches and farms and animals". These are the things I am hoping to involve in her play on the lead up to Australia day (as well as a few activities that expose her to Indigenous Australian culture and our currency).
This was a quick easy activity that just made her beam. Threading the string through the shell hole proved to be a little difficult for Cakes though the perseverance she showed was amazing. She was so determined to make herself a 'pretty' necklace. We found threading both ends of the string through and looping it over the shell holds the necklace in place on our necks the best.
Cakes loves collecting rocks from the park, the beach, the foot path and anywhere I let her take them from (which I am hesitant at most places though do on the odd occasion). She uses these in many ways though she tends to sort them the most. Initially she started out sorting them by colour; white, grey, brown and multicoloured and extended this by ordering them from light to dark. Cakes also sorts them into size; big, medium, small and extended this by comparing using different and the same. My favourite way of sorting them is by texture; rough, smooth and bumpy (which Cakes says is a mixture of rough and smooth) she extended this by doing it with her eyes closed. Cakes currently prefers to sort by only one attribute at a time. With a little encouragement she will sort them into colours and then texture or size but when sorting by two attributes it always involves colour (I assume this is due to her being the more comfortable with this attribute than the others).
Cakes has been a little obsessed with chalk drawing lately and has combined this with the enjoyment of tracing her hand. "Sleeping down here Mummy" I was told (I was a little worried what her intentions were at first) then she started to trace around my body the same way she does my hand every time we trace hers. Cakes had me trace her body outline and her clothing outline. She said the ones where I pushed past her clothes were left being rude (and we couldn't have that). We discussed all the different parts of the body and identifying the features we were missing, Cakes added in scribbles for eyes, the nose and a mouth. Since the last time we have been out in the front yard tracing she has become a little obsessed with our bones. Often pushing on the skin on her chest pointing out her ribs, or on Daddy's shoulders pointing out his shoulder bone and asking about our bones. I am hoping to use our tracings to draw in some bones and discuss it a little further.
Other posts you might like -Cakes has been an active user of Mummy's iPhone since the age of 6 months and now at 2.5 years old is way more competent in its use than her Nanny. When Cakes was born I had decided (after much research and discussion with Daddy) that there would be no screen time until Cakes was 2 years old. By the time Cakes was a few months old I had done a complete backflip and decided she would have valuable screen time. Educational DVDs with accompanying toys (and an adult to enhance her viewing), Youtube clips with her favourite songs/books and educational iPhone apps. In an age of technology I figured why let her get behind when she is going to be exposed to it at child care and be a better user of technology than we were as kids. It is not like she was going to sit in front of hours of television like I did as a kid (not that my parents encouraged it when I was young, but as I got older I chose to watch it rather than being outside). The following is a list of ten great apps that I found educational value in and Cakes loved (and some she still loves 2 years later). These games were played on occasions when time could be spent with her to enhance learning, quite times and during waiting times (at the shops etc.). I hope you find as much value in these apps as we did. Keep an eye out for 10 great apps for 1 year olds.
Other posts you might like -The top 10 posts as viewed by the readers in the short 6 months that Learning to play and playing to learn has been in blog. It pleases me that many of the post from this year that I have enjoyed writing are the ones you enjoyed reading. Just for good measure I have thrown in my top 5 for the year.
For months we have had this tape track on the floor and is rarely played with by Cakes though other children often balance along it on their way through the house to the rooms or yard. I had not removed it as I am pretty certain that when it comes up something else will need to go down and I am currently out of electrical tape. All of a sudden the other day Cakes loudly exclaims "I need to drive my cars on the track". I assumed she meant the awesome car mat that had just gone back down in her room after some successful in toilet training, but no. She went and got a few tins of cars and started driving them along the electrical tape lines. Zig zags and curves were where the cars had the most trouble, they went the fastest on the straights and often crashed on the right angled corners. Since she has started driving cars on the lines she has played with it several times a day (until Daddy put the cars away and she forgot about them). Although she has just started walking along the lines and balancing (which was my initial intentions for the lines).
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