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We made it to the end! Molly and I posed together with our last letter, Z for zebra.

Using a recipe for pinwheel cookies, we made zebra cookies.

With the help of the self-timer, I was able to capture our mommy-daughter game of Zingo. It's Bingo with a zing!

We ended the week making zucchini chocolate chip muffins. Molly liked tap-tapping the eggs.

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Our week began by making a W for watermelon. While preparing this week, I remembered that a college friend had made these letters with her daughter months before I started with Molly. At the time I thought it was a great idea, but since it was the day before Leah was due, my pregnant brain obviously forgot about it. So now, 9 months later, thanks Christen for sharing!

When I saw these watermelon cookies, I knew we had to make them this week! Molly loved cutting and adding the special "seeds" to these cookies.

Molly did a little watermelon math and sorted, counted, then graphed the different shaped watermelons.

She also did this Wonder Pets puzzle all on her own!

The end of the week was spent in the water. First, Molly started swim lessons. Here she is ready and excited to go to her first lesson. Sorry, no pictures from the lesson as I couldn't manage swimming and taking pictures simultaneously.

She then spent an afternoon at the pool celebrating a friend's 3rd birthday.

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Flag Day was at the beginning of our week, so we made our letter F accordingly.

Molly had a great time rolling, and pressing her thumb into our chocolate peanut butter fudge buttons. She had to be reminded to be gentle when pressing, or her she'd press her thumb right through!

I hosted a playdate to create wacky foam snakes by blowing air through a simple, homemade bubble-making device. I found the idea in my Family Fun magazine.

We took a field trip to a local farmer's market. The favorites from the loot? Blueberries, raspberries, and honey whole-wheat bread.

We made several Father's Day cards during the week, and even went to a friend's house to make a special card for Daddy.

And finally, we read The Very Lonely Firefly.

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I hosted a playdate to create wacky foam snakes by blowing air through a simple, homemade bubble-making device. I found the idea in my Family Fun magazine. The kids dipped bottles into bubble solution,

used their little lungs to blow into the bottle,

to make a foam snake appear out the bottom.

Our N week began during our weekend roadtrip to North Carolina. We went to visit Grammy for her 80th birthday.

Again, our week was short due to our trip, but we did make our N for nest,

watched Finding Nemo,

and worked on learning family names. I created flashcards of all our names. Molly then used milkcap letters to spell them out.

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Our X week was very short due to a long weekend trip. I tried to get Molly to show her X like Vanna White, and this is what we got!

Finding things to do during X week proved to be a challenge. (I chose not to use xylophone since it does not phonetically sound like x.) Here Molly is water coloring over a crayon tracing to create a wax resistant painting.

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Molly pulled out her Crazy 8 cards and asked, "Can we play patterns?" It was the perfect impromptu game to start off our P week.

We made a pink pig for our P craft.

After 2 attempts to get the dough right, we were finally able to make whole wheat soft pretzels. Molly helped me roll them, "paint" them with egg whites and sprinkled them with salt.

We made some bubble wrap prints,

and finally played with the pattern blocks she got for her birthday.

Molly had so much fun painting with our homemade puff paint. You can see a video of her painting here.

For our stART project, we made blueberry pancakes just like Curious George in Curious George Makes Pancakes.

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We worked on the letter I this week, starting out by making an ice cream cone with sprinkles and a cherry on top.

Molly wanted to paint, so I printed a picture of Isa the Iguana (from Dora, of course!) for her to create her masterpiece.

Molly did a great job making an igloo, using royal icing as the glue. She kept asking to eat the marshmallows, and eventually she was given the OK! She also loved that she got to eat some of the igloo for an after nap snack.

We've been working our way through I Spy A to Z. Molly really enjoys look and find books.

We spent some time exploring The New York Philharmonic Kidzone. We learned about instruments in the orchestra, sorted mixed up instruments, played an instrument matching game, had a percussion showdown, and created our own musical mingles. Molly really liked playing on Mommy's computer!

The weather was nice at the end of the week for us to spend some time outside painting with colored ice cubes.

We did some learning with inchworms.

You can't go through I week without making ice cream. We tried to make "ice cream in a bag" like in chemestry class. The result? Molly ended up drinking a milkshake instead. :(

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Molly loved her A alligator. Several times she took it off the fridge and pretended that it was eating Daddy!

I originally saw this idea in an issue of Family Fun, but have since seen it all over the blog world. We made an apple print painting. Molly really enjoyed painting her apple green, and then using it like a stamp. I tried to get her to paint a red apple, but she only wanted green! The stubborness of a three year old...

We learned a little about ants. We made "ants on a log" for lunch one day. Molly ate one piece, then decided it was more fun to use pretzels to scoop out the peanut butter and raisins.

Molly also practiced sorting the big and little ants.

We incorporated our stART project into our Apple Pie Day celebration. In addition, I found a clip counting activity that coordinated with the Ten Apples Up on Top theme.

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May 13th was National Apple Pie Day. So, what better way to celebrate than to have a playdate to honor the day. We began with a reading of Dr. Seuss's Ten Apples Up on Top.

We then made adorable yarn apples.

And topped off our celebrating by eating mini apple pies.

Leah was actually awake to play with the other younger siblings. This picture had to be captured very quickly since they didn't stay put very long!