Fingerpainting, swimming and talks

This week, we have been focusing on one of Dani's favorite letters, B. Since she already knows this letter quite well (including it's sound), I decided to introduce a couple other letters just for fun.

I made some homemade finger paint and we colored the back side of a few of our old wedding invitations. Though she really hated touching the finger paint, she sure enjoys showing the letters to everyone who comes to the condo. She will even try to name all the letters here. The only one that is clearly wrong is the lowercase A, which she labels 'O'.

In the picture above, I had asked Dani to say "cheese" , but since she is making a funny face, I decided to have her say "A". However, when I mentioned the letter A, she decided it would be more fun to hand them to me.

Yes, she is sunburned in these pictures from yesterday. We went swimming with friends from the Ward and we both ended up burnt. However, Dani's favorite activity of the day was still playing ball with Mason in the pool. She repeated "Ma" (Mason), "Ba"(Ball) multiple times during our evening conversation.

I have recently added a new activity to our bedtime routine where we talk about everything we did that day. It gives me an opportunity to reinforce things she has learned and add more vocabulary and conversation to our day. She will often nod as if she understands what I'm talking about, or she'll try and repeat the words that she recognizes or words that need more explanation. We then cuddle as she relaxes before being put in bed. It has become my favorite part of the day.