#cat’s colors by jane cabrera

[coffee-mouse]

dedicated to my childhood best friend Fudge the basset hound plush 🧡

[littlegirlybapthing]

Muñequita!

Hi my little sweetheart! You’re 18 months old! That’s so big!!! You’re hitting all your milestones and making us all so proud. You find ways to learn and don’t let anything hold you back from what you’ve set your mind to. You stand up for yourself and that’s a trait I hope you’ll always have. You make friends everywhere you go, always so friendly and smiling at everyone. I love you with all my heart Chiquita. You’re just what our little family needed. A little tornado with lots of love, or as brother calls you, stinky butt! Hehe yes, he sniffs your butt to see if you peed or pooped.

At 18 months, you started to pretend to serve food to ñaño and Dada from the play kitchen. Peed in the potty twice and notified me when you pee and poop. Love PJ masks theme song and dance in circles when you hear it. You request for us to play it on Alexa. You also like the Baby shark song and request it in the car. You call it Doo doo. You carry around a little shark stuffy. You love all stuffies and like to cuddle them and kiss them. You hug and kiss our whole family. Love mama and always have your eye on mama. You’re a na na addict. You ask for it all day and night long. You love going out and playing in the mud with ñaño. Dogs are your favorite animal to see when we’re out. And of course you adore Titi and try to pet, kiss and hold her. You also like to mix Titi’s pebbles into her water for her.

Your favorites are water color painting, play dough, singing and dancing, reading Pete the cat and any book by Jane Cabrera. singing the ABC’s and twinkle twinkle little star, baby shark, zoom zoom zoom going to the moon, breaker beach, Jesus loves me, and pj masks. seeing airplanes fly by. Dogs. Cats. Garbage trucks. You love to eat olives, salad, strawberries, blueberries, sopita and cheese.

You also LOVE to swim and you aren’t afraid of jumping into the water.

You chase ducks at the pond, go down slides (on Mama’s lap). Climb up on tables (because you saw ñaño do it). Climb up your high chair to sit down. Puts masks on mama and dada for fun. Bubble time is fun time. Stickers are the best.

My little princesita muñequita, I can’t believe the Lord has blessed us with you.

God bless you always and forever amorcito. Remember, you were made for such a time as this. The world will never provide the happiness you need, only Jesus can. Keep his word hidden in your heart and meditate on it day and night. Call upon the Lord with your struggles, questions or even frustrations. He is there, the Holy Spirit is with you. Trust in Him and listen for his still small voice. Use your boldness and strength to continuously stand up for TRUTH. Not the false truth that this world teaches, but God’s truth! Keep your brother in your prayers, just as I’ve asked him to pray for you. Help each other back up if either of you stumble or fall, encourage each other with the truth of the Lord. Surround yourself with believers and ask them to hold you accountable with any of your struggles.

And don’t forget, your mama and dada are always rooting for you, whether we’re near or far.

I love you.

[gettingready2read]

10 Cats by Emily Gravett

Ten curious and expressive cats tip over three cans of paint and make a mess!

Skills

Background Knowledge: Counting and number identification: help your child point out and count the specified cats on each 2-page spread (such as 3 cats with stripes). Have them identify the numbers.

Also, color mixing: red and yellow make orange; blue and yellow make green; red and blue make purple.

Vocabulary: The words for colors and numbers. Also, point out and discuss the differences between the dots, blotches, spots, etc. in the illustrations.

Practices

Talking: Talk with your child about what is happening in the pictures. What is each of the cats doing? What is happening on the last, wordless, 2-page spread?

Talk about how the mother cat is carrying her kitten. This can lead into a discussion of how different animals carry their young (The board book Mommy, Carry Me Please! by Jane Cabrera, has many good examples.)

Extend the book with color mixing!

Allow your child to use washable finger paints to mix colors. This facilitates the early literacy practice of writing!

Another way to mix colors is to have the colors “walk” from one cup to the next as in this fascinating activity:

Walking Colors

You will need six clear cups, water, and red, yellow and blue food coloring.

Fill three of the cups half full with water. Add a drop of red food coloring to one cup of water, a drop of blue to another, and yellow to a third.

Leave the other three cups empty.

Arrange your cups as shown, alternating the cups with colored water and the empty cups.

Cut a paper towel into six strips. Place each strip so it has one end in a cup with colored water and the other end in an empty cup.

Link all the cups as shown. The colored water will immediately begin “walking” up the strips from the colored water to the empty cup.

Within a few hours, the empty cups will have the mixed colors of orange, green and purple!

Check out 10 Cats from LCPL!

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TAGGED BY: @dyadoforce ( vy, darling, te quiero <3 )

RULES: Answer 20 questions, then tag 20 bloggers you want to get to know better.

1. NAME: grace 2. NICKNAMES: “gracie” ( I went by gracie for forever, but around my 8th grade-freshman year, I asked people to start calling me “grace”) ; “peanut” ( my mom calls me this once in a while and it makes my heart very happy ) 3. ZODIAC SIGN: scorpio 4. HEIGHT: 5′3″ 5. LANGUAGES: english & a good bit of spanish ( but I am by no means fluent ) 6. NATIONALITY: american 7. FAVORITE SEASON: autumn 8. FAVORITE FLOWER: sunflower ( 🌻 ) 9. FAVORITE SCENT: lavender & peaches 10. FAVORITE COLOR: golden-hour yellow, burnt orange, deep reds 11. FAVORITE ANIMAL: dog 12. FAVORITE FICTIONAL CHARACTER(s): ( alright folk, better strap in bc this is going to be a long one ; I'll organize them by fandom )

sw: benjamin organa solo, the prince of alderan and of my heart ( really is anyone surprised by this haha ), rey nobody ( don’t @ me ), luke skywalker, leia organa, queen padmé amidala, obi-wan kenobi, lando calrissian

literature: elizabeth bennet, fitzwilliam darcy, george knightley, jane eyre

mcu: t’challa, bucky barnes, thor odinson, steve rogers, vision, wanda maximoff

dc: diana prince, bruce wanye ( fun fact: michael keaton is the best batman ), clark kent ( not superman... the distinction is important ), lois lane, the joker

hp: remus lupin, nymphadora tonks, draco malfoy, hermione granger, molly weasley

twin peaks: special agent dale cooper, annie blackburn, shelly johnson, audrey horne, fbi deputy director gordon cole ( I really should start posting tp content on my blog bc I adore the show )

st: chief jim hopper, lucas sincalir, steve harrington, max mayfield

knives out: marta cabrera, det. benoit blanc

( phew that took way more time than it should have, but I'm done now )

13. COFFEE, TEA, OR HOT CHOCOLATE: coffee ( I legitimately think that I have it in my veins at this point ) 14. AVERAGE SLEEP HOURS: 6-8 hours 15. DOG OR CAT PERSON: both, but more dog than cat 16. NUMBER OF BLANKETS YOU SLEEP WITH: 3+ ( depends on how cold it is haha  17. DREAM TRIP: europe (specifically italy, uk, and van gogh museum in amsterdam ) & nyc 18. BLOG ESTABLISHED: est. 2014, but this is the most active I have ever been on my blog ( thanks mostly to @brightrey  @darlingtaurus & @dyadoforce 💕💖💛 ) 19. FOLLOWERS: 246 20. RANDOM FACT: I lived in canada for a year and would move back in a heartbeat

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