My First Bob Books – Alphabet

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In 12 playful books, familiar animal friends progressively introduce the 26 letters of the alphabet. Engaging, read-aloud stories inspire and motivate your child, while proven teaching principles inspire success. Your child will prepare for the magic of reading as My First Bob Books • Alphabet guides them through these stages:

Realizing that written language represents spoken language
Learning the names of the letters
Realizing that letters represent sounds
Learning which letters represent which sounds

Hidden pictures challenge kids to find objects with featured sounds and the Parent Guide offers additional teaching tips and activities to support kids’ growth and build confidence. Continue reading

Happy Easter Curious George

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Happy Easter, Curious George is a winning holiday story based on H. A. and Margret Rey’s popular primate and painted in the original watercolor and charcoal style. One fine Easter morning, George and the man with the yellow hat head to the park. George can’t help but join in the fun when he sees children dyeing Easter eggs . . . but what’s that man doing with their prized creations? Each hardcover gift book comes with glittery egg-decorating stickers! Continue reading

Curious George Home Run Reader/ Jorge el curioso El jonron (+ Giveaway)

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George is excited to go to his first baseball game to watch his friend Marco play. While Marco concentrates on hitting his first home run, George gets to play scorekeeper. But George doesn’t know in which order he should hang the numbers. With help from Marco and the girl at the snack stand, George learns about number sequence and a handy trick for putting double digits in order. During the last inning, George agrees to be a pinch runner for an injured Marco. Will he be able to add another number to the scoreboard? Includes rules of the game and a score-keeping activity.

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Toddler (and Mama and baby sister) Adventures ~ 32 months

Has it really been since January 20th that I updated you on Blossom School? Seriously? Wow. I guess it got away from me in all the sinus stuff. Well you’ll be glad to hear that I have been feeling much better and antibiotic free for probably a month, now that it is April. Let’s see… where to begin… Already AppleBlossom is very interested in having OrangeBlossom involved in most everything she does. Apparently it is her baby, and I’m just here to feed her (and change her). They definitely love each other’s company and that makes me feel truly blessed. … Continue reading

8 months old

AppleBlossom was walking by the end of eight months. She started crawling and sitting alone at seven months. It was in April when she got her first tooth to come through… I wonder if OrangeBlossom will be the same…

Well… they are only a week apart in birthdays. OrangeBlossom has been army crawling  for a few weeks, but has been up on her knees for about three days. At the same time I suddenly noticed her sitting, and she had been crawling – so she figured that out on her own. It’s now April, and her first tooth just popped through.

Then now…

we’re standing!

Seriously… little girl. You couldn’t practice this on the padded carpet floors? It has to be the kitchen tile?

Well perhaps I’ll have another early walker by the end of eight months.

Zacchaeus Meets Jesus (I Can Read!) by Crystal Bowman

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These Level One Early Readers/I Can Reads are retellings of familiar Bible stories.

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Not many people like Zacchaeus the tax collector. But when Zacchaeus climbs a tree to see Jesus, Jesus calls him down to talk. How will the people react to Jesus meeting Zacchaeus? Continue reading

The Jesus Storybook Bible Curriculum Kit

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The Jesus Storybook Bible Curriculum Kit by Sally Lloyd-Jones & Sam Shammas, Illustrated by Jago, Audio read by David Suchet 44 Lessons for Early-Middle Elementary Ages: 4 to 104 Genre: Christian Children’s Storybook Bible + Curriculum Pages: 352 Hardcover Bible + CD/DVD Discs Date Published: February 2012 Publisher: Zonderkidz, a division of Zondervan Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, Moonbeam, US, 2007 2010 ALA Notable Award Mom’s Choice Awards 2010 THE JESUS STORYBOOK BIBLE: EVERY STORY WHISPERS HIS NAME. The Bible as novel for kids… “The Jesus Storybook Bible” tells the Story beneath all the stories in the Bible. At the center … Continue reading

Crawling and Sitting *sniff sniff*

OrangeBlossom is here nearby on the floor going to and fro from this and that exploring. For a few weeks now she has been doing an army-crawl, mostly arms with a little leg help. She will get on her hands and knees and rock a bit, but doesn’t go more than one “step” on her knees. Just today I’ll look over to check as she moves something or squeals (making sure she’s not eating AppleBlossom’s preschool printables!) and once she was on her back (where I left her). Another time she was sitting. (WHAT!?) Then she was hands and knees rocking. (Yay!) Then again she’s sitting next to the basket of babbies reaching in.

When did she learn how to go to sitting on her own? How did that happen? It must be a just today thing. But crawling and sitting. Going to sitting by herself specifically. Oh woe is me, where is my baby?!

AppleBlossom was walking by the end of 8 months, and OrangeBlossom is current 7 months and 3 weeks or something like that. So I guess it’s possible she’ll be the same. Why couldn’t I have one of those babies that stayed a baby? Oh well. AppleBlossom had to keep up with me and I suppose that OrangeBlossom wants to keep up with her and not be left behind. Silly girls.

Oh! [ETA] All of the sudden OrangeBlossom has taken to pacifiers, it started one day as she tried to grab AppleBlossom’s right out of her mouth. (Long opinion on pacifiers, I might share it someday… if I remember.) So anyway, I assume teething. Low and behold guess who’s got a sharp point today! This morning I noticed for the first time, she has the bottom R front tooth just breaking through the skin. Alas. My baby’s growing up!

Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet

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Fancy Nancy is ready for the spotlight!

Fancy Nancy and her best friend, Bree, couldn’t be more excited about their upcoming dance show. After all, it’s all about mermaids—and who knows how to be a fancy, glamorous mermaid better than Fancy Nancy herself? But when another ballerina wins the coveted role of the mermaid, Nancy is stuck playing a dreary, dull tree. Can Nancy bring fancy flair to her role, even though it isn’t the one she wanted? And when disaster strikes right before the big ballet, who will step in to steal the spotlight?

From bestselling duo Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser comes a fancy, frilly ballet story with a lot of heart. Tiny fans will shout “Encore!”
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My little mommy…

OrangeBlossom was playing in the crib with her rolly ball that makes sounds and rolls. It got quiet and I went to see if she had fallen asleep and I wanted to get the ball out so that she didn’t bump it and wake herself up. Well, AppleBlossom beat me to it. I went in the room and she had turned off the ball, left it in the crib (but the main thing is it won’t make noise) and she pulled a babbie over her back. *sigh* My little mommy being such a good big sister!!