Fruity Fruits!

Hey friends,

My beautiful sweet little daughter, Sarah was hospitalized for 3 days for an asthma :( Her first one and hopefully the last. It was heart breaking to see her tied to an oxygen mask and to a cannula! Anyway, she is better now and here is a picture of her on the day she left hospital. She was so funny in the hospital, looking for ways to escape :D She faced all this as strong as one little girl could be,God! I love them so much!

Away from all the drama, Sarah got back to her school and they were discussing fruits. I had to add my touch :p  So, I prepared her some simple things. A sensory tub, a puzzle, stickers and a coloring book. Here is what is inside the tub:

• plastic fruits
• fruit erasers
• small mini trees
• fall leaves (from the dollar store)
• confetti (leaves)
• Blocks (with pictures of fruits on them)

 Farida was trying hard on the puzzle :D

Our dictionary

Farida was so good doing this :)

Thank you for being with us. Hope to see you here soon. We appreciate your comments!

Love,

More Light!

Hi,

Farida was an active participant in our activities today. I loved her presence and Sarah loved it too. We prepared a mini quick sensory activity. A Ziploc bag, transparent gel, glitter and some miniature items and you have it. By the way, I don't edit or crop my pictures, I know I probably should but I don't. Ah, and she refused to change and insisted on wearing this toll costume again. and I said "Yes, you can."

Adding the gel.

Adding the glitter (gold & pink)

Shaking! I told her she can choose any 6 miniature items she wants.

She chose: two transparent boxes, lady bug, eagle, igloo and x-ray.

What is this?!

Fighting with the bag.

Trying to eat it.

And then we put all our miniature items on the light table and again, Farida participated. It was so much fun. here the pictures speak way better than words.

We finally played "I spy" on the board game and played a little with the magnetic dolls and clothes. I insisted she names every item she chooses.





Thank you for sharing our fun moments. Come back soon :)
Love,

My exams are almost over!

Hi all,

I have one more exam only to finish but I couldn't hold my little darlings more than this:) SO, we're back to the fun. Keep in mind that I don't have access to all my materials and things here cost A LOT. Yesterday, I bought some colours, pencils, sharpeners, glue, a pair of scissors, some animal capsules (that grow in the water) and a small game (things that go together) containing only 20 pairs of flashcards and I paid almost L.E. 170. Also, I bought some things for a sensory tub and these cost me L.E. 68 so it is a little crazy but we're doing our best. I have a lot of observations I noticed in the last few days but I'll keep them for the end of the post. So here is what we did yesterday and today:

1- We played with a light pillow. This one is a gift I got from dad from the US. It was so much fun. We also threw it at each other as if we were playing with a ball. there were a lot of giggles.

Sarah also did some beading. This was a Dora foam beads I also got from the dollar store in the US.

Today, we started by doing some face painting. Sarah asked for a mirror to look at herself in the process. She found difficulty in standing still until mommy finished, lol.



 Then, she did some wood puzzle. This was one she had long ago and she was perfect at it  but she forgot all about her toys so she dealt with it with the same excitement of the first time. Unfortunately, there are a lot of missing pieces in it. I'll look for them later:)

Then, it was time to open the box of the things that go together. Now, let me say I regret buying it. It is too expensive, pictures are not very clear and I could have done a better job myself BUT in my defense, I had exams. I started by making Sarah identify the things she know and then I asked her about each picture on its own. For example, I held the tooth brush picture and asked her what goes with it, she pointed to the tooth paste picture and so on.

One of the pictures had a board on it so I thought about giving Sarah my white board and seeing hat she'll come up with. She could finally draw a circle, she drew a lot of inverted Cs :-) BUT seriously, look how she holds the marker, I find it amazing :-) The sun is mine ;-)

Finally, she helped me prepare some food.

The following are some random pictures for both girls.

^^^ At grandma's house.

^^^We all were playing with the ball, Farida shared :-)

^^^I am trying to make Farida practise holding and grabbing things, this is the only time she seemed interested. I gave her Sarah's box that had blocks and random stuff inside.

^^^Again, we were working on making her grab things, Sarah was there to help :-)

^^^With daddy on the beach.

^^^ At daddy's office.

Here are my observations:

Sarah was a little rebellious in the beginning, she didn't want to do anything herself, I think she just needed to adjust to the changes and have some alone time with daddy. She was also not used to the fact that people will pay attention to Farida so maybe, she developed some kind of temporary jealousy. Now, she's back to her normal self and we are all proud of her.

Also, she so into imaginative pretend play nowadays. We (daddy and I) are in the process of collecting her a real doctor's kit :) She feeds her dolls, burps them, changes them, takes them to the doctor and a lot more. I will have to come up with some things to feed this interest.

I think that is all for today. Thank you for your patience and for sharing us our fun moments.

Love,

Sherine