Our Favorite Things

I thought it would be fun to write about some of our favorite things.
Nicholas loves nursery rhymes, songs, and finger plays.  Not a day goes by without him pulling is Disney Nursery Rhyme book off the shelf and begging for Mary Had a Little Lamb.  "Little Lamb" is usually what he asks for.  He loves the Jim Gill's version of My Bonny.  (Both of my kids love all of Jim Gill's stuff.  It is fantastic music especially for the car. I need to video Anna singing If You Go to San Francisco, it is so cute! )  Another one of Nicholas's favorite songs is "If You're Happy and You Know it."  I caught a little bit on video.  He wouldn't do the stomp your feet and shout hooray, but the clapping is cute.

The number one favorite at our house is Rock-a-Bye Baby.  Every night after dinner the kids pull the blankets out and ask Devin to do Rock-a-Bye Baby.  It might not be the best activity to do right after dinner, but we haven't had any problems yet. :)

When Devin gets tired of Rock-a-Bye baby the kids are pretty happy being pulled around the house on a blanket.

Nicholas can say quite a few words.  Two important words in his vocabulary are "puppy" and "hat."  He loves his puppy and doesn't like to go anywhere without a hat.

We love puzzles at our house.  Nicholas likes to pull out the animal pieces and make the animal noises.  He also loves to just dump the puzzles out.  Anna and I see who can put the puzzles together the fastest. It works out well, Nicholas dumps, and Anna and I put them back together.

It is fun to combine toys.  Anna and Nicholas will pull all of the cars and Little People out to make big cities.

Anna made the connection that our Noah's Ark set was Little People, so he had to join our city one day.  It looked like Noah was calling the city to repentance.

Of course, one of the best parts of building a city is to destroy it when you are done playing with it.  Nicholas is really good at that.