Muffin Tin Monday

Muffin Tin Monday ~ A Very Jamberry Breakfast

This weeks theme for Muffin Tin Monday was Children's Literature. Emily and I read Jamberry, by Bruce Degen and enjoyed a breakfast full of Jam and Berries!!

Here is Emily's Muffin Tin Breakfast

Top Row: Bagel with butter and Strawberry Jam, Mixed Berries (Strawberries, Blueberries, Raspberries and Blackberries), Vanilla Yogurt~ to mix the berries into!

Bottom Row: Same as the top

Emily had some of her Teddy Bears join her for breakfast this morning!!

TOTSchool

Our week in TOTSchool!!

Emily is 26 months old

Emily made her own farm with a coloring sheet and farmyard stickers. I was amazed at the story Emily made up about the animals as she was sticking the stickers on the page. She actually had a reason for where she was putting them and told me about it!

Emily always loves playing with her Little People.

Emily took out the flower petals and pipe cleaner and enjoyed working on lacing them to make flowers.

Grandpa gave her this double sided Snoopy puzzle recently and she has done it every day since she got it!

Daddy took Emily for a ride in her new wagon. They enjoyed seeing all the flowers and plants that are blooming!

Emily was most excited about seeing and hearing the "music truck," which is what she calls the Ice Cream truck. Since she has never had the ice cream from it all she knows is that is comes around every night playing music!!

Building with her Melissa & Doug Wooden ABC/123 Blocks .

Emily made Mother's Day Cards for her Grandmas

Our favorite books from this week:

• Fisher Price Let's Go to the Zoo Lift the Flap (A-Lift-the-Flap Play Book) ~ Readers Digest
• Planting a Rainbow ~ Lois Ehlert
• I Love Mommy ~ Lizi Boyd
• Touch and Feel: Farm ~ DK Publishing

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Reading Theme Challenge ~ I Love Mommy

I Love Mommy ~ Lizi Boyd

The book for this weeks Reading Theme Challenge was A Present for Mom by Vivian French, unfortunately my library did not have this book so in honor of Mother's Day we decided to read I Love Mommy by Lizi Boyd instead.

Emily liked that a lot of the things that the Mommy and Child did in the book were the same things that we do together.

After we read the story Emily made Mother's Day Cards for her Grandmas. I asked her something that she enjoyed doing with each Grandma and included what she said inside the card. It is exciting that she is able to express herself more and more!

Grandma, I Love You a Bunch!

Emily's Finger Print Grapes

I was searching for a cute card idea for Emily to make for her Grandmas for Mother's Day and found this great one at Danielle's Place of Crafts and Activities. (Visit the site for a printable outline and complete directions.) Since Emily loves finger painting I figured we would give it a try!

Emily enjoyed dipping her fingers in the purple paint to make the grapes!!

I helped her place her fingers in the right shape so that they looked like grapes.

When we were done with the cards I let her go to town fingerprinting purple anywhere she wanted to on another piece of paper.

Emily glued on a leaf and I drew the stem.


I asked Emily something that she liked doing with each Grandma and then wrote it on the inside of each card.

Farm Fun!

Emily Made a Farm!

I found these great farm stickers at A.C. Moore a few months ago for $1.00 and thought Emily would enjoy making her own farm scene with them. She was going through our sticker drawer yesterday and found the stickers so we decided to give it a try.

Emily colored in a farm scene printout with crayons.

Then she added the stickers. As she put the stickers on I asked her the name of the animal she was putting on, what it's color was and what it said.

Emily had a lot of fun telling me stories about the animals she was adding to her farm. She gave each pig a carrot to eat. The bunny had to share a carrot because we didn't have anymore carrot stickers. It was so exciting to listen to her talk about the picture she was creating and telling me why she was putting the stickers where she was. I can't believe how grown up she is!!

**The printout that I used I printed during the Open House at Reading A-Z where you could download things for free, but I did find another printout that would work well with this activity here.

Muffin Tin Monday

It's Muffin Tin Monday!!!

There was no theme for this weeks Muffin Tin Monday and thank goodness because I desperately need to go food shopping! Here is what we came up with from what is left in our refrigerator.

Emily's Muffin Tin Lunch

Top Row: Mini Broccoli Cheddar Frittatas, Kiwi Fruit Slices, Honey Wheat Pretzel Twists

Bottom Row: Same as the Top!

Emily loved the Mini Broccoli Cheddar Frittatas and they are so easy to make!

Mini Broccoli and Cheddar Frittatas

• 1 cup chopped frozen broccoli, thawed
• 4 eggs, beaten
• shredded cheddar cheese
• Salt and pepper to taste

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and lightly mist 8 regular muffin tin cups with olive oil spray ~ I used mini muffin tin instead and lined them with muffin cups because I do not like to clean the tins after :0)
2. Divide the broccoli between the muffin tins
3. Beat egg and add salt and pepper to taste, I also added a little onion powder. Then divide between the muffin tins.
4. Bake for 8 minutes or until almost set
5. Top with shredded cheddar cheese and bake for 8 more minutes or until cooked through

TOTSchool

Our week in TOTSchool!

Emily is 26 months old

We had some great weather this week and were able to spend some time outside!! Emily enjoyed drawing on the driveway with chalk...

...and blowing lots of bubbles!!

Emily liked painting with water in this Fisher Price Little People Paint with Water book...it was only .89 cents at target!!

We picked dandelions to do a Dandelion Print project and as part of a Yellow Scavenger Hunt too!


Emily loved this Mickey Mouse Color Matching Game.
The cards are just Behr Disney Color Paint Swatches from Home Depot...the whole game was free!!!
First we did it with the colors all facing up so that she just had to pick two of the same color.



Next, I used only a few of the pairs and turned them upside down so she had to remember where they were. She did a great job!! I think this was one of her favorite activities from this week.

Our favorite books from this week:

• Go, Dog. Go! ~ P.D. Eastman
• Planting a Rainbow ~ Lois Ehlert
• The Alphabet Tree ~ Leo Lionni
• The Wheels on the Bus ~ Paul O. Zelinsky
  

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