Going with the Flow

Hannah helped me to make bread today - a learning curve for both of us which I hope to do much more often. Hopefully we will both become proficient in gluten free bread making! Afterward she had a wonderful time "washing up". I began thinking we have not really done Flowering Baby this morning and then I listened to what she was saying. She picked up a tomato plastic container which I was going to wash and said "Oh the water is going down - Oh it has holes in it!" I think that was her science lesson for the day! She then said - this is plastic. I have no idea where she learned that. She then sang her own version of Pop Goes the Weasel several times :-) As she was finishing she said "It's OK Mummy James is at school and he is OK, he is happy and is not crying." Can she read my mind!!!!!

I tried encouraging her with yellow play dough as per FB but very quickly she went on to ask for pink play dough and made little pies in pots for very both of us! I did not try and make rectangles. I do not think that Hannah likes to learn this way. She seems to absorb and then by herself she will see something and make a connection. For example today we played with her numbers puzzle. I put the pieces in a bag and she pulled one out and put it in. She loved this. She was determined to find the zero! She was delighted when she got it. In the evening when I read her Bible book she saw a man and she said "his face looks like a zero!" Going back to the colours - I am not sure which ones she knows - I think she knows a lot, if you ask her she will not say always but then spontaneously she will see something and correctly identify the colour. We were meant to spot something blue today so I did on the walk up to school - that is her kind of play "Who is the first to find a blue door?"

I did find a straw and Hannah loved this - I have never seen her drink so much water! She also worked out on her own that she could make bubbles - she thought this was very funny. She then said "Look it loks like a tongue and it bends". We spent some time looking at the mirror and she was intrigued by this - especially by the magnifying side. We had a little chat about the face parts but this was review for her. I tried to chat about teeth but she is not ready for dental hygiene yet! She did however work out that she coud open her yoghurt independently with her teeth!

I was meant to show Hannah an O and P today but she was SO not interested which is fine. She is very very interested in the dot paints and I think for her Birthday I may get the full colours. Painting in fact I think is her favourite activity! that and dressing up :-)