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Fine Motor Activity

Feb 26, 2015

I like keep busy my toddler, and I like it more when he enjoys the activities that I propose to him. From all of the activities that I have proposed him till now, he enjoyed every activity with filling the bottle and painting with different forms and in different ways. Check more on the posts below.

1. Paint on a sponge

2. Fill the bottle with tisues

3. Fine motor activity

4. Painting

5. Painting II

This activity, is as well, one that suppose filling the bottle, but now with sponge. I had a big sponge that I have cut into little pieces, and a little bottle. Damian enjoyed filling this bottle with sponge, almost for its texture, as well he tried to take out the sponge from the bottle :D:D:D. The idea was that he feels how a sponge changes when it is touched. It is a good experience for him to understand the things around him.

Colours and paintings are always a good choice for an inside activity. Paint on a sponge

Feb 23, 2015

Painting is a lot of fun, everytime, with no exceptions... and a lot of work after having so much fun :D:D:D. This activity develops imagination on kids, grows concentration skills, keeps attention of the kids. I thought that would be great to make this inside activity special. I found a big sponge, watercolor, and water. I choose just 2 colours, red and green, to be easier to color the sponge and easier to explain to my toddler each color. It was important for me that he enjoys plaing with colors and develop his feelings of each object that he used during this inside activity. This montessori activity helped me to maintain him busy for almost 1 HOUR!!! Yes, it is a lot for him, as other activities we play as much as 15 minutes, and he gets bored.

Where to go when weather outside is wonderful and you do not plan any getaway? We go to the park

Feb 19, 2015

I like outside activities with my toddler, as fresh air always is a good choice for any game and any getaway. As well, I think that it is the easiest way to keep your toddler busy and you a little bit relaxed, because our toddler needs a lot of space to run and play. There is no better activity in-house, than any activity that happens outside the flat. Last week we went out to the park as there were wonderful weather outside and we wanted to entertain our little love. We took our lovely ball, but as usually happen he doesn't want to play with the toy that we took, so Damian found other toys more interesting and it is true. Below some pictures of my beloved.

If they are happy, I am happy as well. Wish you a great week my darlings.

Cut wrong the nail on foot

Feb 13, 2015

Have it ever happen to you to cut wrong the nail on foot and then it to get red? I do not know you, but it happened three times to us. Now we are more attent when cutting the nails, and we cut them when Damian sleeps, as when he is awake it is mission impossible. On this article I want to share some of the tips that we learnt after these bad experiences.

1. Cut the nails straight and not in form of oval, as their nails are too fine and these are very sensitive.

2. To offer comfortable shoes for your child, and always buy the right size on time. Do not wait.

3. If it happened that you have cut the nail wrong and it is get red, we used this ointment to stop the infection.

I hope this few tips will help you on your next time when you will have to cut nails.

Baby nose cleaner

Feb 11, 2015

In this article I want to share a little story from the first days being a mother, and about an advice that was given to me that till now I am very grateful to that doctor.

In Spain, there is a program that on first 10 days after you gave birth, a doctor form Doctors College is calling you and asks you about your feelings as a mum, new experience, what problems you have found, what questions do you have, and teach you some new util things. I don´t really know if they called me by social security program, or it was any other program that I have asked previously when I was pregnant.

The fact is, that this call changed my perception about the flue on babies. I was lucky as my child was born at the end of may and it was a good weather outside and I didn´t know what is flue till he went to the nursery :D.

It was done a study about baby nose cleaner, and was found that more you use it more snot forms in the nose of your baby. I listened the advice not to use it and evit to use it till once my baby was breathing through the mouth. The result, my baby didn´t breathe better, he was crying as he was afraid of the strange thing that I used for his nose, and it was true that more snot came later.

Dear mums, my advice to you, do not use this baby nose cleaner. The best way from all the times is the onion in the room while baby sleeps.

Cheers, love you!

Barcelona en miniatura

Jan 19, 2015

This place, museum, I don´t really know how to call this, it is a place that I had in my mind more than 3 weeks to go with Damian, but everytime we had something else to do, and never had this hour or two to visit this place. Finnaly this Sunday we went with Damian. I haven´t expected to see too many things there, but I wanted just to pass great time with my boys (Damian and daddy).

More information about this place you can get on their page barcelona-en-miniatura.com. It is a little museum with all the famous places of Barcelona in miniatura. The idea of this wonderful place was to show the life of Barcelona in its ´30s. There you can see a lot of cars, builduings, trams, buses or even trains from that period. It is amazing activity for children as it is not like a typical museum where you just watch this places, the fun thing is that all the trains, ave or buses are in move, some of the trains even make noise, what amazed Damian a lot :D.

It is not really big space there, and not so many builduings, so you can see all the stuff in almost 15-20 minutes, the great part of this space, is that there are toys like trains and cars with whic all the children can play and not get bored. Damian enjoyed it, see in the pictures below. :D:D:D

Little farm in the heart of Barcelona

Jan 12, 2015

Last week we found out that we have a little farm not so far from where we live, it´s like 10 minutes walking. It is Hort Masia Can Cadena, more information you can get here. I knew about this park, because time ago I saw people raise vegetables there, but I didn´t know that there are domestic animals as well. I began to browse on internet more information about this park, and for my big surprise I found that there are few specialties of domestic animals. There you can see a part of farm life almost in the heart of Barcelona.

This weekend is the second time when we went with Damian to this little farm. There are raised sheeps, rabbits, ducks, goats, geese, chickens and roosters. It was really fun to go there with my toddler, as now he develops another life, and as he can´t tell us that this is a sheep, he can tell us ¨beee¨ and we understand what he means. It is interesting as, Damian is keen to learn new sounds, and even more when it is about the animals. All children love animals, and domestic ones are the first who they meet and have a special attraction.

It is a great opportunity for children who grow up in big cities to have this kind of things and don´t need to look up for a farm that is out of the city.

See below some pictures how Damian enjoyed this experience :)