Well I found a website that prints off large letters that look like roads do this morning I printed off a large capital A and a large B. A was so freaking excited when he saw them printing off that he didn't want to finish his breakfast before playing with them.
He got out all his matchbox cars and drove them all over the 'roads' with me for 15 minutes. I could see that he was starting to get a little distracted so I quickly finished up and packed it away before it ended negatively. Now that I know he enjoys it I think I'll laminate the whole alphabet so they're a bit stronger and bring out a couple of new letters every few days.
I had also printed off a couple of coloring pages of trucks I had found through google images so I brought them out next. He sat at the dining table and was quite happily coloring in for another 15 minutes before I duvked out to have a shower.
When I returned my MIL had put A in the pram and he was pretending to be baby Z, sucking his thumb and crying lol. I went along with it and we had a lot of fun making sure Baby was being looked after. This probably lasted about 30 minutes.
I pulled out his box of Lego and we sat on the couch together building trucks and trailers for an hour. He has plenty of Duplo Lego but we also let him play with the regular Lego while being supervised because he really enjoys it and he's extremely clever when it comes to his technical skills. I love to see how hard he's concentrating on what he's building and his fine motor skills are amazing, I'm always very impressed with the things he makes.
We then engaged in some more imaginative play, he decided we were both dogs and we were crawling around on the ground barking and playing tug of war. This game lasted well over an hour! And then he wanted to play it again tonight before bed :)
I was going to take him to the park again this afternoon but by the time we both woke from a nap it was too late in the day and the weather had turned. Instead I pulled out his Duplo and we sorted all his Duplo sets. A put everything in piles depending on whether it was a farm specific item, or from the police set or firefighter set. I was reading something today that said sorting is an early form of mathematical learning which is great because A loves sorting things!
We continued having free play with the Duplo and we ended up playing together for the next 3 hours!!
Even though I had to engage in a lot of imaginative play with him - which I normally hate - I actually really enjoyed the day. I think I'm just happy to finally be engaging with A like I always felt I should. I feel a lot better about myself (hey maybe I'm not going to be a crap mum anymore!!) although I feel much more tired!!
Tomorrow we're going to be going out for the day while DH has the day off so I probably won't bother posting. I'm going to try and go to the library with A and pick up some more bedtime books.
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