Tot School

~Smiley is currently 16 months old~

We had a lot of fun with our Little People Zoo this week. I usually ask Smiley "Where is the lion", "Where is the monkey" etc. He's really good now at identifying his animals and can even say their names.

Opening and closing things is still popular around here. Smiley particularly likes to close water bottles. He also enjoys drinking from them, just like mommy does it ;)

Sticking pipe cleaners in a vase/pitcher.

One of Smiley's favorite things to do this month has been climbing stairs. Whenever he sees stairs he now has to climb them on his own. He's gotten really good at it, but daddy still prefers to be right behind him, just in case...

We had a great time at our local Kidspace Museum. It is free every first tuesday of the month and we have visited it since Smiley was about 10 months old. It's great fun. Smiley particularly enjoyed the cool water area they have in the nice garden. Next time we will have to bring swim shorts and water shoes :)

Inside the Kidspace Museum they had many more fun activities for Smiley. Here he discovered daddy's hand.

Painting this fun leaf with daddy.

Here he is making his first water color painting with mommy. Of course he tried to lick the brush a couple of times, but mommy was able to stop him just in time ;)

Smiley loves his pegs. He particularly enjoys building peg towers.

Smiley still LOVES the screwdriver. Here he is screwing on one of his toys, like daddy does it when he changes the batteries. He spent a good hour walking around our house and "fixing" one toy after another.

This is one of Smiley's variations on the peg board. He is sticking the pipe cleaners into the pegs :)

Mega Blocks are still a big hit with Smiley. He enjoys building towers of all shapes and sizes :)

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Tot School

~Smiley is currently 16 months old~

Unfortunately, I didn't take many pictures of our tot school this week. Here are the few that I did take.

Smiley had a great time feeding the turtles with daddy.

We practiced opening and closing with many different objects.

Smiley loves his little pom poms. We transferred them into many different containers. In this picture, he is dropping them into a water bottle.

We did a few art projects with stickers this week. He likes to stick them on the paper and then try to peel them back off.

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Tot Food

Here is one of the lunches Smiley had this week: Whole Wheat pasta with tomatoes, mozzarella and basil, steamed carrots and halved grapes. What's on your tot's plate? Please share your ideas on totallytots.

Tot School

~Smiley is currently 16 months old~

We had a fun tot school week and did quite a few activities both inside and outside.

I really like our pom poms. They are a very versatile tot school item and work well for Smiley's age range. Although, he does try to eat them occasionally ;) Here, Smiley transferred the pom poms into his sippy cup.

Smiley transferred pom poms to this silicone muffin pan that I won at a baby shower last week. It turnes out to be quite a good tot school item.
Smiley flipped the muffing pan over and proceeded to putting the pom poms in the little holes on top of the muffin molds. Wow, an even better fine motor activity he came up with on his own :)

Smiley's vocabulary has increased a lot over the last couple of months. For the past couple of weeks he learned pointing to and saying different body parts. So far, he can point to and say: hair, nose, ears, eyes, teeth, belly, arm and hands.

We worked on fine motor skills quite a bit again this week. Smiley worked on sticking toothpicks in a parmesan shaker. He did really well with this activity.

We also did a few activities with pipe cleaners this week. We practiced sticking the pipe cleaners in our dishwasher basket and in a water bottle.

Smiley is obsessed with our little screwdriver. He often sees daddy changing the batteries of his toys and then asks for the screwdriver himself. He goes from toy to toy screwing away :) It's really cute actually.

We did a lot of water play this week. Smiley absolutely loves the water. These pictures were taken at a trip to California Adventure.

We practiced spooning pasta from one bowl to another with a measuring cup. This was pretty difficult for him. Next time, we may try it with dried beans or lentils.

He then transferred the pasta with his hands into this measuring cup. Much easier :)

We go to the playground and park every afternoon so Smiley can run around and go on the slides and swings. However, one of Smiley's favorite activities is sticking the little wood chips through the holes in the steps of the monkey bars. He's even doing tot school, fine motor activities on the playground ;)