My Best Day

Today was by far my best day connecting with Jip. We had a fabulous time on our field trip, and as projected, I spent way too much money at Lakeshore Learning. It's like Hobby Lobby and Target combined and it is pure danger.
We had front row seats at Junie B. Jones: Jingle Bells Batman Smells. It was a very cute play, and Jip was really getting ancy the last fifteen minutes or so. But folks, this was an hour and a half play. My baby sat quietly and relatively still for over an hour. On our way home he said, "Mom, this is the best day ever." I melted right in my seat.
At Lakeshore Learning, he stumbled upon numbers 0-9 that "transformed" into robots and came with mathematical symbols. I wasn't going to get them (because frankly I wasn't paying attention to them), but my insanely relentless son threw a big fit (in which I told him no way will I buy them with that attitude), and then convinced me to take one more look at them. Well when I really looked at them I gave in. What a neat way to learn numbers! And yes, I am avoiding talking about what a pushover I was at that moment and how I did not drive that lesson home very well. I pick my battles. I admit when my child has a good idea even if it's against principle. Anywho, these things are so awesome! So we spent a good part of our day learning about each of the numbers, what order they go in, what they look like, etc. Every time we were in the car we talked about them, at therapy we talked about them, and at home we talked about them for a good hour. So while I had no real lesson planned for today, I'd say today was extremely successful in the learning arena. Tomorrow rounds out my first week homeschooling and I have to say I feel relatively good about it. I get warm fuzzies knowing I'm the one teaching my boy. I'm actively doing something I was always so convinced I couldn't do. Those damn nevers really have a way of teaching me life lessons...
I worked overnight last night, so this momma is just about all out of steam. Thanks for reading! Tomorrow is more letter L and number play. We're going to go halfsies on my husbands man cave and make one corner a classroom. I can't wait to show you all how it's turned out once we've finished. But first, we have to move the beer fridge... ;)