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emma at three years and five months

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Clover is a few days shy of three years and five months and now seems so big. I tell her every day that she is growing so well. I see more of a big kid than the toddler that she once was.

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Clover still loves the same things: books, Calico Critters and playing with her tea set.
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Clover also now really enjoys legos, acting out stories for her wooden Little Bear friends, blocks and transportation toys.
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In the mornings she plays for hours and with every single things that she owns. Its amazes me.
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Sometimes I plan activities but mostly she likes free play that is self directed. Play dough and painting are fun activities we like to do together at the table.
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There is always time for sitting down and reading books. All books, all the time around here. ^_^
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a new photo book

I made a book to catalog pictures for Emma that tell a story about her origins. I had a bunch of old scanned photos that I wasn’t sure would print well but it really worked out. I do not keep photo albums and have many hundreds of photos in hard drives. My solution has been to create these simple books for Emma using Mixbook (they are about $30 each). She loves her previous books made with Instagram pictures that illustrate the days we have shared since I started staying home with her. This new one includes photos of me pregnant and her as a baby that we have yet to print. Needless to say the last pages of the book that include the photos of Emma are her favorite.

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emma’s books


emma's books

I was so glad that this year Emma received mostly books for her birthday. At two years old she is finally interested in looking at books with me and even letting me read to her a little bit. Mostly we talk about what is happening on the pages of her favorites, and she repeats the words or points out what she knows and sometimes acts out what the characters are doing. Her favorites are Richard Scarry word books and Oh, What a Busy Day. And of course like all kids she loves the backs of the Little Golden books with all the small illustrations of characters that she recognizes. Since she is going through an Elmo obsession (from watching you tube clips) so she points out all the Sesame St. characters saying that they are like Elmo. Its so cute and fascinating to see her interests blossom.