Sesame Street Potty Chart

Claire has been doing great asking to go potty. Check out her sticker chart. The sticker chart came in a coloring book about Elmo learning to use the potty that her friend Pierce gave to her for her 2nd birthday. I'm glad I finally got it out. She loves picking what sticker she gets to put on the chart.

Barbie has the Stickerpox

Life-size Barbie has got a bad case of the Stickerpox. I gave Claire a sheet of stickers and told her to share them with Barbie. It kept her busy for a good 20 minutes!!!
Notice how Elmo is leering at Barbie in the background. He's a creepy little red guy. Claire's hand is in the photo because she is trying to grab the camera. She demands "SHOW ME DA PICTURE!" after each picture I take. I should have never shown her the little screen on the back...

Yes, Barbie is a state of half-undress. Most Dolls or toys with clothing will probably spend the next year or so like this. Perhaps longer? When is it fun for kids to re-dress the dolls? Not just strip them? She likes to take off Barbie's clothes so she can be in her pink swim suit. Because we all need dolls wearing their swimming gear in December.

Ahh...what would I do without the cheap entertainment of stickers, playdough, and coloring books?

Craft time!

We go to story time at the library where the kids make a craft each week. This was the craft for the day before Thanksgiving. She has been having so much fun with it. She will put it in her toy microwave and heat up the food for her dolls. She also added stickers to it.

Stickers are great! Before she could really peel them off the sheets well, I would take off the "extra" sticker paper so she could take off easier. Now she can take them off just fine. If I need to buy myself some time without her underfoot, I just hand her a sheet of stickers and tell her to go share them with her big Barbie or a specific toy. She then sticks them all over.

She added these stickers to her Thanksgiving meal. I can't wait until she has a little brother to stick stickers on. We'll just have to teach her not to stick them on his little face! What fun that will be!

PS...the crafts they do at the library are always precut. They mostly consist of gluing with a glue stick and assembling, which of course I help her. She is getting really good at it though!

I can haz Stickerz!!!

Claire's favorite little place to sit is in our back doorway!
She is madly in love with these Barbie shoes. I only paid $1.70 for them at the Consignment store, and she is obsessed with them.
She is also obsessed with stickers. Luckily I have quite the stash left from my teaching days! I suppose she can use them in the meantime!