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We made an R for rabbit. At dinner that night, Molly was asked what letter she made. She responded with "R," and then when asked what animal it was she excitedly answered, "A bunny!"

This project took a few days to complete. Molly didn't quite grasp the idea of coloring the entire rainbow arch the correct color. She just wanted to color the number. She eventually came back to it and at least got half the rainbow colored.

Molly worked on her fine motor skills by lacing beads on to pipe cleaners,

then we arched them to make our own bead rainbow!

We met some friends at Rita's Italian Ice for a sweet treat during R week. Allison's Italian ice must not have been enough; looks like she wants a taste of Molly's custard too!

We ended our week working on some math skills. First we did rainbow clip counting,

then worked on rainbow size sorting. Molly did really well comparing the sizes of the rainbows so we could put them in order.

This week I also hosted a playdate to make felt flower hair clips so that we were all ready to show our pretty May flowers! These girls sure do love each other!

You can check out what other moms are doing with their tots at 1+1+1=1.

I hosted a playdate to make felt flower hair clips so that we were all ready to show our pretty May flowers! Each of the kids made two and then were off to play. I saw that Molly was still at the table and realized that she was glueing the rest of the flowers together all by herself!

This is what happens when you ask three year olds to hug to pose for a picture!

The big kids were sweet to make hair clips for their little sisters too.

Leah was taking a nap during most of the playdate, so I had the girls model their new hair clips together.

Molly has proudly worn her flower hair clips for days now. We've even found them in bed with her!

Edit: This project is super easy! Cut two different size flowers out of contrasting felt. Stack the flowers and sew a button on top. I had the kids glue the pieces together so they had more to do than just pick out colors. Then hot glue on to your choice of clip. Happy crafting!

Molly celebrated one of her best friend's 3rd birthday at Olenka School of Music. Here is the playgroup drum line.

The kids marched around the room in thier own music parade,

drummed some more,

and played with a parachute.

Happy 3rd birthday, Keira!

Molly clearly enjoyed the cake. This was after eating the top half of a cupcake too!

Easter morning was again lots of fun. Before heading off to church, Molly had fun with Easter baskets. Warning, this video's kind of long so it may take a minute to download if you're Internet connection is slow.

We began our T week reading The Little Engine That Could,

then making our T for train.

Molly's concenrating very hard inserting toothpicks into dotted shapes.

We met some friends for a playdate at a recycled tire playground to celebrate Earth day.

Molly continued to celebrate Earth Day by creating her own Spring tree.

We finished our week with some turtle learning. This was Molly's first experience with size sorting. She did well, but we'll definitely work on this again.

You can check out what other moms are doing with their tots at 1+1+1=1.

The girls and I met some friends for a playdate at the recycled tire playground at Patapsco Valley State Park to celebrate Earth day.

The slides (and trading sunglasses!) were the big hit of the day.

Keira, Molly, Sadie, and Lucy loved swinging on the tire swing all together!

And although not pictured, all four younger siblings were really there. Next time, we'll make sure to get a picture of their smiling faces too!

We talked about Molly's 3rd birthday party here previously, but here's the video evidence of the whole cake/singing thing. Make sure you watch the whole thing, to see why the singing gets repeated.

I took the girls to have Easter pictures taken in the dresses that Grams made them. Leah's dress has been worn by Molly, Emmie and now Leah, all for their first Easters!

I also had some individual pictures done to mark milestones: 3 years for Molly and 6 months for Leah.

I upcycled one of my skirts into a sundress for Molly. I loved the fabric and hung on to it for some reason even though it never fit right. I used this tutorial and now Molly has a new dress!

The Before:

The After:

I'm linking up to Making the World Cuter so you can see what's new in the world that's cute!

This week, we focused solely on U is for umbrella. Molly made a letter U and added raindrops with an eye dropper. She loved dropping water with the dropper so much that she asked to keep using it on another piece of paper.

For our stART project, we read The Umbrella Queen. It's about a little girl whose village is known for their hand-painted butterfly and flower umbrellas and are anticipating the arrival of the King to name the umbrella queen.

Molly made a paper umbrella with butterflies and flowers, just like the book!

She walked around all day under her umbellla, hiding from the rain.

I wanted Molly to practice patterns again, so I made her these umbrella patterns. (You can download them here.)

She is getting better at her counting and matching. (These were part of the number flip book at Home Grown Hearts.)

You can check out what other moms are doing with their tots at 1+1+1=1.