After working on the letter A the kiddos used their fingerprints to make ants, too cute! Miss Jenn read them all a book while they snacked on animal crackers and apples. It was a very fun and productive play date!
We looked up some other ideas for our lapbook. We plan to add a mini book on our address, and we want to make an apple pie and include the recipe and maybe some sequencing cards on the order of the recipe. We also brainstormed: ambulance (maybe practice 911), airplane, astronaut, and avocado-- not sure what we could include with those... maybe just some pictures of 'A' words.
When we got home from the play date the little girls were sleeping, so Lyric and I had some lunch. She got a new Zootles magazine in the mail today, so we read all about Pandas. There were a few websites in the magazine with live web cams, so of course we had to get on the computer and watch some pandas. Lyric really liked watching them live, but she didn't really like that they didn't have sound. The Atlanta Zoo site has video, some with sound, of their pandas. We watched the birth of a panda which was awesome! This is probably too much information, but I swear I made noises very similar to that panda when I had Cadence!
On the Smithsonian National Zoological Park site we found an online panda jigsaw puzzle. Lyric attempted it by herself and got very frustrated with it, but when we did it together she really liked it. We then decided to print out a panda coloring sheet from their site and she made her own jigsaw puzzle with it.
She then decided to read some TumbleBooks on Daddy's computer while I worked (played) on mine. Story woke up and decided to watch Arthur while having her lunch. All of this happened by 3:30!
The afternoon was just spent in our normal way: laundry (yes, still Story's favorite), the girls playing and basically just hanging out.
This evening Lyric decided she wanted Daddy to take her training wheels off her bike. They tried bending them up because we heard that is a good way to teach them, but Devon couldn't really get them to bend, so they just took them off. I don't know if she is ready yet. She kept insisting for Devon to let go despite the fact that she was leaning sideways. 
When he wouldn't let go she would get mad at him. She did pretty good though, I think. We will just have to keep practicing. She may not have ridden by herself, but she did make Daddy realize how out of shape he has gotten these last few weeks!
Well, that was our Monday. Hopefully our Tuesday won't be quite so busy. We are planning on going to the bilingual story time at 10:30, who knows where else the day will lead us?
The girls wanted to work on their lapbook today, so we worked on Letter B book. Lyric did some coloring and cutting, but lost interest and went in her room to play. Story LOVED it! She colored, cut and glued! I have about 20 pictures of her working because every couple of minutes she would say, "Take my picture doing this... Take my picture doing this..."
It is really interesting to see how she colors compared to Lyric. Lyric used one color for each object and went way outside the lines. Story used many, many colors on each object and mostly stayed in the lines. 
I wonder if it is skill? Story's younger so you would think Lyric would be better... or is it just the want to do it? Story is much more into coloring than Lyric. It will be interesting to watch how their coloring "skills" develop as they get older. It could just be that Lyric takes after me. I have never been good at coloring and it is something I don't really enjoy. I will color with the girls when they ask me to, but I just really don't like doing it, maybe it is because I'm not very good at it:-)
This is the inside. On the left and right flaps are flip books that have the numbers 1-20 in Spanish. Lyric put stickers on each page to correspond to the number. Both girls really enjoyed this! We bought Story Dora stickers and Lyric princess stickers, so that made it all the more exciting! 
Lyric typed up the color names and decided what shade of the color she wanted to use. Story made cards just like these for her book. She also did the typing and picked the colors out she wanted to use...Yes, I am a very patient woman :)
When you raise the middle flap Lyric glued balloons here. You raise the balloon to reveal the color name in Spanish. She also typed all of the names herself and chose the shade of color she wanted. As I said before, I am a very patient woman.
On the top of the flap, Lyric practiced writing her numbers. She is a smart kiddo, but her handwriting is not the best. I think she takes after her mother. I am almost 34 and still write like a fifth grader.
In the pouch there is another matching game we made. You have to match the correct number of balloons to the number.