Claire's two year update:

Birth:
7 lbs 8 oz

19 inches long

Two Week Appointment:

8 lbs 8 oz 75%

20 inches long 75%

Two Month Appointment:

12 lbs 4 oz 75%

 21 inches long 75%

Four Month Appointment:
  16lbs 5oz  75%

25 inches long 75%

Six Month Appointment 

19 lbs 75%

27.5 inches long 95%

Nine Month Appointment

20lbs 3 oz 75%

28.5 inches long 75%

1 year appointment

22 lbs 0 oz 80%

31 inches long 95%

15 Month Appointment

23lbs 12 oz 50%

31 inches long 75%

18 Month Appointment

25lbs 4 oz 70%

33 inches long 80%

2 year update

27lbs 3 oz 75%

35 inches long 60%

Claire is now in size 2t/3t clothes (depending on the brand of course). She is in size 5 diapers and we are starting to potty train this month. She is so ready for potty training. She sleeps from 8pm to about 8:30am. She takes a 3 hour nap everyday. Her favorite foods are blueberries, chicken nuggets, and fruit snacks. She loves playing outside and since we have a house now we have been outside a lot. She loves reading books and building lego's. She can sing the ABC's, count to 10, and knows most of her colors. She knows what she wants and isn't afraid to voice her opinion. We got a puppy so she loves playing with Oreo.  She brings so much joy and light into our home. We are so blessed to have her.

XO

Caitlin

Claire's 2nd Birthday

August 22nd, 2015.

This sweet girl of mine came into my life. She made me a mommy! Now that sweet girl is 2.
For her party this year we did a Unicorn theme. I made a cute unicorn chalk invitation (can't show it here for privacy reasons). I found all the decorations at Target and Michaels.

 These are some cute photo booth props that Michaels had.

My sister made the amazing Unicorn cake! The hair looked so cool. We also had cupcakes for people with gold unicorn horns. 

 Zack and I got her this Anna dress for dress ups. She loves dress ups lately and now she has so many. She got so many wonderful presents but I think she just enjoyed being around people she loved the most.

We love you Claire!


XO
Caitlin

Toddler Learning Folder

Continuing on with the last post I did on toddler educational supplies, I purchased this toddler learning folder and I wanted to share it with you. It's a great way to start learning with your child every day. I got it on teachers pay teachers here. You can easily make this on your own if you have Microsoft word, publisher, power point, etc. It would be easy just time consuming. I chose to just buy it but really you could make it. Here is a video of what is included in the binder and how you would use it. We have loved it so far. I plan to laminate each page, cut out the pieces and put everything in a binder so it will hopefully stay nice.
Sorry for the bad quality of the video but hopefully this helps give you some ideas about what to do with your toddler in the fall. 

 Thanks for reading!
XO
Caitlin

Toddler Target Educational Haul

Hello! I am back with a different type of post. The last month and half I have been watching a lot of YouTube, and especially a lot of homeschooling videos. Homeschooling is seriously something I never even considered but as I watch Claire learn and grow I just realized that I want to be with her longer then I would get to if I sent her to school. I went through public school and it was totally fine, I have a bachelor's degree and I feel like I was prepared for college when I left high school.
Claire is only 2 years old (well turning two in a few weeks) so she doesn't need preschool right away. I have found, by watching a lot of YouTube video's, that there is so much I can do with her now to prepare her for school when the time comes.
Recently Target came out with all of their educational materials in the dollar spot so I decided to pick up a bunch of items for our homeschooling experience. Here is everything I grabbed (some of this stuff is still in stores but going fast so make sure and pick it up if you are interested).

 So this first batch of stuff includes everything you see above and I'll show close up pictures further down.

 I got this alphabet magnets and number magnets. These are great because you just get a metal cookie sheet and Claire can play with them all day. They are good for her to trace the outside of the number to recognize the shape. The alphabet ones are fun because they are in the shape of something that starts with that letter. We go over the sounds of the alphabet right now to help her with reading.

 We got this chalkboard to also practice coloring on. She isn't writing letters now and I don't expect her to but it's good to practice writing by coloring.

 These books were only a dollar each! What!! I loved them all and Claire has been enjoying reading them.

 I got some flash cards as well. It's easy to start the "school" day off with flash cards.

 I also got some stickers because she is highly motivated by stickers.

 Here she is reading one of her books. She just loves it!

Now onto the second batch of stuff from Target.

 The first thing you see on the left is those wall cleans, they will be great for the bulletin boards I have planned for our playroom.

 I got some matching games, a number and sequence puzzle and some flashcards. I am really excited to use them.

 I got a dry erase white board. This is also a great tool to practice writing through coloring.

 These month decals also come with numbers so that will be great to go over days of the week/ months with her as we switch them out.

 I found these felt books and I am so so so excited for them. These are the only two I found but I can't wait to open them up for hands on reading.

The last thing we got was this read aloud book because it's very important to read to your kids. We read at least 20 minutes a day.

I will post a schedule of what we do every day for our Toddler Home school later on after we have it down but I don't plan on spending more then an hour and half in school each day. That's all she needs and then we can have open ended play play time.

Hope you enjoyed this post!
XO
Caitlin