ABC's/1-2-3's (or just "FOUR!")

Yesterday I turned into a slight mad woman in regards to cleaning. It started with just cleaning the kitchen when the boys went down for their nap, but turned into sweeping, vacuuming, washing/folding all laundry, reorganizing three drawers in the kitchen, cleaning our bedroom, making the bed, reorganizing the laundry room, and (this is where I got crazy) VACUUMING out the garage. Yes. with the vacuum hose. The whole thing. Who does that? Ours was disgusting and I'll spare you all the things I sucked up (you might think differently about me), but - oh my goodness - after dis-infecting the vacuum hose, it's CLEAN!

My reasons for doing this (other than every insect known to man-kind had built mansions in there) was because I made an "art table" out there for us to enjoy with the garage open when the weather gets cooler. We have an old white table we used to use in out kitchen collecting dust out there, so I clean/disinfected it, cleaned the chairs, rearranged some things in our garage, and made it an art table. That way, the messy colors never come into the house (our rent house, remember). The table is perfect because you can color all over it and it wipes clean (not sure why, but it does) with a wet rag.

When Lincoln woke up, I showed him his new station in the garage, and he LOVED it. We colored until Noah woke up, and then 2 more times throughout the day, he was standing at the door that leads to our garage going "color??".

I also bought some numbers/ABC/colors/pictures flashcards yesterday to work on him with while we're out there. I've noticed when I work on these things with him, he has the best concentration at meal time (when he's strapped in). Other than that, he can do it sometimes, but others is way distracted by all his other toys everywhere. But guess what? TOTAL attention at the art table in the garage!

So yesterday we worked with the ABC flashcards (he pretty much has all the pictures down). About 30% of the time he could say the right letter when I showed him the card, but he was fantastic at me showing him the card and him telling me what sound it made! Almost perfect on that skill. I was so proud! His favorite is the "C" sound. Now, we'll see if he remembers today. :)

We're not so much tackling numbers yet. He was doing great at 1-3, but then we added "4" last week, and he loves to say "Four". So everytime we count now, I start with "One..." and he goes "Two...FOUR! FOUR! FOUR!". Not sure why, but oh well...goofball.

Oh yeah - our garage used to be infested with flies. You could hardly sit in it, it was that annoying. But after vacuuming it (again - it was one of the most disgusting things I've done/seen)...we didn't have a single fly bother us. Excellent.

And our dear Noah? Well, he's been taking crazy long naps this whole week (growing??) so after lunch, well, we just don't see much of him.

But when he wakes up, he's usually in such a sweet mood - babies after naps are the best - seriously.