An Amazing Week & Amazing Ainsley

This week was amazing! "Unplugging" them from the television was great. Once I explained to them that we'd not be watching anything.. they were fine. Aidan once or twice asked and I'd reiterate the plan and she'd say "oh okay" or "just checking" and that was that. Without the television acting as a babysitter we did so much more than we ever have. We read A LOT of books, talked about all sorts of things, did a lot of puzzles , a lot of unschooling activities, and the girls played all sorts of imaginary games together.
Basically, we really enjoyed this week.

A Book Picnic..

Ainsley really shocked me this week. She was playing with the magnet letters and was saying their sounds as well as giving examples of words that started with it. "B... buh buh BOOK! BABY!" It was entirely unprompted. So I put CVC words together and she'd point to each letter saying their sounds faster and faster. She did NOT figure out the words... it didn't click in her head how to really "glue" them together but considering that she initiated the game on her own and this was only the first time she'd ever tried it... I bet it won't be long before it "clicks" She also has said a few times that she wants to read the Bob books. Hmm... guess I need to show her the Leap Frog video.. that's how Aidan realized how to glue them when she just knew the sounds...

Also, I finally gave Aidan a 100 piece puzzle (which was easy for her to do.. silly me) and while Aidan was putting the border together... Ainsley was "messing" with the rest... I looked over and realized she was making piles of pieces with similar attributes... such as all the pieces that made the blue blanket were in one pile or all the pieces with part of the wings in another. Then, she took the piles and systematically put together the parts!
.... can I say WOW?
Look out Aidan!...here comes Amazing Ainsley!!