Crayons

While scribbling with Isaac's crayons, I decided to draw a crow for him since he's fascinated with these creatures.  He's not too impressed with my drawing.  Sometimes I miss doing my colour studies with pencil crayons.  I guess I'll just have to work with crayons for now and see what I can do with them.

Currently Isaac will try to poke at the paper using a crayon and occasionally draw "chicken scratches".  We'll have another scribbling session soon.

[Edited: Here is a scribble by Isaac.]

The View From 5'5": Mamma's Bag Of Tricks :: Quiet Time Bins

Quiet Time Bins. This is a really neat idea! I saw a link to this blog from a forum I read. I think it might work with Isaac since he can play well independently and would give him something slightly different to focus on each day.

The View From 5'5": Mamma's Bag Of Tricks :: Quiet Time Bins

Gymnastics Class

We're half way through our week of gymnastics.  We get free time at the start of class to go around and play with all the equipment.  Then we have circle time where we do stretches and exercises.  After we do three circuits through the equipment and practice some of the things we learn from the circle time.  At the end of class we sing the "Head and Shoulders" song, get a sticker and give the instructor a high five.

Isaac likes wandering randomly through the room so the free time is nice.  He likes bouncing on a trampoline and crawling under bridges.  When he approaches a bar, he lifts his arms up.  He doesn't always hold on, but was able to hang off the bar once by himself this morning.  He has a hard time with climbing a ladder horizontally and pulling himself along a bench like a snake.  We get to do lots of somersaults (off benches, along a beam, down a ramp).  We just started learning some basics for cartwheels.

So far it's been a good experience and we'll try to sign up for more classes in the fall.

Afternoon emergency?

My goal this afternoon was to pick up some cream of tartar, jello, paintbrushes and a toy pots and pans set for Isaac.  I left the house at 3pm and walked to the mall.  I let Isaac run around the play houses outside Toys R Us for a bit, then headed into the store to pick up the toy pot & pan set I saw there last time.  Went to Zellers to look for some paintbrushes but didn't find what I was looking for.

On our way to a grocery store, Isaac tossed his hat off somewhere.  I back-track all the way back to the mall, but didn't see his cap.  I was feeling a bit disappointed in losing his cap but still hopeful of finding it.  I bumped into one of daddies of Isaac's friends at the corner of a street.  As I was explaining my search for Isaac's hat, a stranger overhead me, and told me she found it and put it on a box.  I thanked her and went to retrieve the hat.  Had a short chat with the daddy friend and headed to the grocery store.

I just realized that I forgot to change Isaac's diaper at the mall, so I was hoping that the grocery store trip would be a short one.  Isaac was also getting a bit fussy.  At the store, we were waiting for Daddy to come and pick us up.  I had a hard time finding the cream of tartar.  Isaac started screaming and complaining.  I let him play with my phone.  The phone rang.  I picked it up.  Daddy had arrived and I let him know where to find me.  Isaac was acting up again and wanted my phone back so I let him have it.

After Daddy met up with us, I got a call from an officer... apparently Isaac called 911.  Ack!  I got a little warning and was told that a constable would be following up with me shortly.  While Daddy lined up to pay for our groceries, I took Isaac to the car and got a call from the constable.  He met up with us about 5-10 minutes later.  While it shouldn't really be a big deal, I was feeling upset and embarrassed.  I'm not giving Isaac my phone until he's old enough to use it properly.  At least I learnt that you can still dial 911 even if your phone is locked and it's easy enough for a 15 month old to call.