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Early Learning Activities: Week 3 (What Changed That Sound?)

This week’s activity is super easy.  Do you have:

  • a teething baby?
  • blocks, or something like them?
  • a folding chair?
  • a cardboard box?
  • some other random object?  (we used a empty shape sorting cube)

Please be advised that it’s possible to complete this activity without a teething baby.  In fact, if you can pull that one off I’d recommend it.  (Analie’s teeth are causing us all a great amount of headache today.  Poor thing.)

OK here’s what you do.

First, take you fussy child and put it on the ground near the supplies needed for this activity.  Congratulations.   Step 1 is complete.  (This was the most difficult of the steps for Analie this afternoon.  She did not want to sit on the ground.)

Next, grab some blocks and bang them together.  Hopefully your baby will imitate you.  Analie thought this was so awesome, then we traded blocks back and forth for awhile and tested them all out to make sure they all worked.  Yay!  They did!

Then I showed Analie how to bang the blocks on the seat of the metal folding chair.  GUYS.  She thought that noise was AMAZING.  (And she made so much noise that my headache from teething baby’s whining is officially worse.  But it was better than hearing a whiny baby!)

After we banged blocks on the chair, I switched her to the cardboard box.  She thought the dull sound that it made was super funny.  I wasn’t expecting that!

We also banged the blocks on the shape sorter, which made a hollow, wooden noise.  Analie wasn’t enthralled by it, though.  Fine by me…it was a really annoying sound!

Poor little girl would need to take snuggle breaks about every 30 seconds, and it kind of cracked me up.

*bang! bang! bang!* and then she’d lay her head on me for a few moments, sit back up and start back into *bang! bang! bang!*

Good luck! I hope your teething baby is less whiny than mine.

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Analie has eight teeth. COUNT ‘EM.

This afternoon the weather was gorgeous, so we went outside to go mudding in the backyard.

I dressed Analie in her most awkward pair of pants, two pairs of socks, and two undershirts, thinking they might get ruined if she got super muddy.

But I needn’t have worried about her clothes.  She’s not into getting dirty, although I tried really hard to show her how to dig in the mud.

She does love Angus, though, so he tempted her to at least crawl a tiny bit off the blanket twice.  And then he got too far away so she went right back to where it was dry.

But how sweet is that smile?

My little girl is getting so big.  I love this stage; the curious wonder of a stick or rock she dislodged from the grass, the  fascination she has with picking furry bits of moss off the ground and handing them to me proudly.

Oh…baby girl…can we freeze time?

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