Terrible Two's

I knew this would happen at some point, just not that soon!!!! He isn't even 2 years old and already is going through that phase. The last few days have been pretty rough around here, he's just misbehaving so much, I hope this won't last for long.  Any tips on how to make this easier for the two of us?

Tot-School at last!

~Diego is 21 months old~

Hi!!!!!!! It's been quite some time since my last post, things have been super busy here.

Well we did manage to do some tot-school activities and here they are. I've gathered some ideas from around the internet(can't remember exactly from where) , so I decided to teach him the letters and colors. I did a huge mistake at first because I decided to do tot-school in his room, which is filled with toys, not much learning happened that day! Then I decided to move to the living room and I got more stuff covered there, so I'll be sticking to the living room for now.

Here's my cute setup :)  Letter A, color: Amarillo (Yellow)

Here he is coloring his letter A amarillo... he also colored a bee (abeja) and a little chick.

He did this puzzle, it has the colors in English and Spanish.

On another day he colored the letter A  azul (blue) and he decided to paint himself blue too!

I'm so proud that he already knows how to say "azul" correctly!!! 

Here he is painting a rainbow (arcoiris). I put some drops of different finger paint colors for him to paint, but he decided to mix the colors with a crayon instead!! He also added "arcoiris" to his growing vocabulary, although it sound more like "coiis" but he knows what it is!!!!

Working with an "A" foam puzzle piece, I found the alphabet puzzle at Walmart for $1.00, it won't last that long!!!!

Painting the letter A anaranjado (orange).

Painting an ice cream scoop anaranjado.

And another one amarillo.

And finally i put some rice in this container and let him play in it for a while.

* If you have a cat cover the rice bin... It never ocurred to me to do so, so my cat used it as a litter box :(  Remind me to buy a closed bin! 

That was it for tot school. If you would like to see what others are doing for tot-school go here.

It's been a while!

I was quite busy for the past few weeks so I was no able to post anything here, sorry for that!
But we manage to do some fun stuff, so here is what Diego is been up to so far.

Doing artwork on the walls!

And eating the paint...it's non-toxic, thank God!

We went to the park, he played with leaves and sticks mostly.

Then he did some exercise.

He played with his cousin.

And helped daddy with the cameras :)

We played at the hotel.

And played some more.

(on a side note: that day we were filming the opening for the pageant we are woking on, and while daddy did that I took Diego to the playground that was so near to the pool, as you can see in the pics, well there was this kid playing with a ball in the pool, and Diego loves balls so he decided to walk into the pool to get the ball, luckily he only got his feet wet!)

Finally we went to the beach after almost a year. Yeah, I know we live on a tropical island and we are surrounded by beautiful beaches, but we just didn't have a chance to actually go and swim until this past monday. Let's just say Diego wasn't that thrilled with the beach.

See! He didn't liked touching the sand with his hands, or getting anywhere near the water, he was way more interested in getting a ball that some guys were playing volleyball with.

Then we decided to put this on him to go to the water, he looked so funny :) In the water I was not allowed to carry him, only daddy, if I dared to hold him, he would scream and cry, but with daddy he enjoyed the water for a bit.

running towards the water just to go back when the water was near his feet!

I guess we need to go more often to the beach!

Bye for now!

Something old, something new!

Diego is 20 months old

Well this week we didn't do much Tot School, Diego is sick and very cranky and whiny, but we did manage to do some activities. As the title of this post says we did some old stuff and I decided to do something completely new to him : pouring!!! Wanna see how that went?!?!

But first...

My husband and I are working on a beauty pageant for plus sized women, and we got a HUGE opportunity to do a fashion show at the biggest mall in Puerto Rico! Diego decided he was going to walk on the catwalk first just to see if it was ok for the girls! :)


"I shake my little tush on the catwalk" :P


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OK now Tot School

First I wanted to teach him to transfer water from one glass to another with a dropper, it didn't work out, so I decided to show him how to pour water from one glass to another.





OOPS!!



"Hey mom, stacking them is even more fun!!!"


OoooooPSSSS!


"Do I have to??"




Then we tried painting, that went well.






He did some body painting....





And THIS!!!!
Tongue painting! Thank God for non-toxic paints!



He stacked with his blocks...




and snuggled with the cat.




Then to keep him busy while he was with his nebulizer thingy we did this:





Isn't that mask cool?!?

Now some funny pics of Diego......

For more Tot School ideas go here!

Learning with Diego

I have a 19 month old boy that's very wild and has a very strong will. He does not like to play with his toys, or at least not that long, so trying to find things to keep him occupied is quite hard. I've been reading this blog that has inspired me to try new things to do with him, and although it takes time for him to get used to this new things they provide fun and he can learn at the same time! He can count from 1 to 10 and when I say this to people they don't believe me, I just one day decided to count the animals in his book just to distract him, and continued to do it every day or so. One day he finally started "counting". Now he counts more clearly and will count everything although not the way you're supposed to do it (he just points to the same spot and counts :P ).

We've done a couple of activities around here like painting, with crayons or the tot paint filled-brushes, because he doesn't like the feel of the finger paint and will refuse to paint with it :)

Can you see how happy he is?

Now this is better mom!

We also played with rice! Probably not a very good idea to use with him at this point! It was fine for like the first 10 minutes, but then he started eating it. No more rice for him for now!

Can you see how concentrated he was transferring the rice to the little container?

Caught in the act, aha!

Then I decided to make homemade play dough, he didn't like the feel of it either.

So I decided to give him some toothpicks so he could poke the dough, he loved it, yay mom!

Well that's all for now!

Check out the Tot School page for lots of great ideas!