"C" is for ...

Cars
     Cars
          Cars!!!

Who doesn't love cars?
Kids sure do.
     {And of course 16 year-old's! :P}

It was a fun theme for today.

We did a lot of activities this morning with the letter C and our car theme. Jocie loves picking out the letter C from other letters and images. She only missed one today. Granted, we only did "show me the letter C" five times, but she's three and that's enough. After about that many times, she's ready for something different. But hey, I'll take 4 out of 5 times!! :)

After doing our morning routine of saying our memory verse, praying, calendar, reading and singing; we started on all things cars!!

Perhaps not the best activity to start with, but I hit her with some sensory and fine motor at the beginning.

Activity #1: Dig for cars in rice and talk about colors, shapes, sizes & counting
          She looked at me like I must be crazy if I thought she was really going to touch the rice.

 

And like the mean mom I am ... I made her.

After A LOT of whining, tears and throwing her body around ... she found out this wasn't so bad.

And dare I say it ... maybe even a little fun??

Once we were finished with the rice, we switched it up and made those cars do something.

Activity #2 : Make the cars move & visually track them.
          Its always a challenge for Jocelyn to sit independently AND reach up & out.

 

No doubt she needed a reward. Mickey Mouse rocks!

 

Activity #3: Watch a short car-related cartoon.

          And yes, I use baby wipe containers for A LOT of things haha

After digging for cars and getting a reward, we were off to the next thing.

Activity #4: CAR WASH!!!!!

 

Where are those suckers?!

{Best Facial Expression EVER!!! haha}

After the car wash, you guessed it, something different.

 

Activity #5: Fine Motor, colors and counting.

          We practiced holding a marker to color a what? Yep, a car haha

{As a side note, for anyone that has a kid that needs some boundaries/borders? I take pictures like this one and outline it with Elmer's glue. Once it dries, its clear and yet Jocie can FEEL the car, bird, airplane or whatever the object might be. Kind of a cool, cheap way to help her tap into more of her senses than just visual.}

Jocie does NOT like holding markers, crayons etc. That was a big cry-fest as well, but she tried and we made the best of it. Even though that put her in a sour mood, she made me so proud with the next activity.

She consistently picked the associated number with how many cars she saw.

I.WAS.BEAMING!! SO PROUD!!!!!

I simply can not express in words how hard it is to not hear your child talk ... to hear their sweet, precious voice. So badly, with everything inside of me, I wish and pray that one day Jocie will be able to tell me what she's thinking, what she wants to do, her hopes, her dreams ... literally chat my face off!!

That day may never come, but there is always hope.

However, in the mean time, we are slowly but surely finding ways to give her a NEW "voice."

{And not that I need to justify, but for Jocie -- and many kids -- something like a paci helps keep her focused so she CAN do activities like these. This to her, is like another person chewing gum or on a pencil, walking around while reading/studying, etc.}

Another successful day at POWERful Beginnings Academy ... CHECK!