Tot School: Letter A & Color Red

   Yay for it being Friday! I am really looking forward to this weekend. We are going on a hike to 52 tunnels tomorrow. I'm really excited and nervous, but I'll save that for another post. We have had a fun first week of tot school over here. Connor is on the wait list for part time toddler day care,  but I wanted to do some teaching with him in the mean time. I decided to start spending about 30 minutes every morning doing age appropriate lessons with him {i.e. the pajamas and messy bed head in every picture}. Some last longer depending how interested he is. Nothing hard, just fun and a way to get his little mind active by learning new things. This week we learned all about the Letter A and the color red.

Grape Harvest Party

    On Sunday we went to our first grape harvest since living in Italy. Aaron was gone last year during the harvesting time, so thankfully he was home this year. When I saw that our favorite winery {Le Pignole} was having a harvest party, I knew we had to go! I was nervous because the weather forecast called for rain during the entire party, but we braved the storm and went anyways.

 Playing with daddy.

Universal Exhibition 2015

    A couple weekends ago we went to the Universal Exhibition in Milan. It's a huge event with over 140 countries participating. It is held every 5 years for a six month period. Each country has their own pavilion that they are free to decorate and setup how they wish, as long as they follow the theme for that year. The theme this year was Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. I am not going to go into  much detail, but you can read all about it here. 

    Since there was so much for us to see, we left first thing in the morning. We dropped our dogs off with a friend and were on our way to Milan by 6:30 am. We decided to make an entire day out of it instead of wasting money and staying the night in a hotel.

 We picked up donuts on the way.

Busy Bags

   First of all, I am happy to say that my hubby came back home yesterday after being gone almost a month. We missed him so much. Connor didn't want to let him out of his sight! 

    While he was away, I had a lot of free time on my hands while Connor was napping or asleep. I found some neat busy bag ideas on Pinterest for Connor. All of them seemed easy to make and made great learning activities that could keep him entertained. I placed an order on Amazon for craft supplies (popsicle sticks, laminator, velcro, play doh and accessories) and sent my mom to get other stuff for me (paper paint samples, more velcro, and clothespins). I waited 10 days for all my stuff to come in, and yesterday when I checked the mail I had 7 boxes waiting for me {they weren't all for Connor}! So while Aaron was at work, I got started on Connor's busy bags!

Bookworm

   I love to read, and thankfully that gene got passed on to Connor. Right now he is all about the same couple books, so yesterday I decided to mix things up a little and take him to the library to pick out a few new books to read. We got there a few minutes before they opened, but that didn't stop Connor from waiting by the door and checking it every few seconds to see if it was unlocked.