ABC's : Coloring Aa
First day, we started the day with coloring Aa. In the beginning, Fritz was so enthusiast to do it. Few minutes later, he showed some refusal and got out all the crayons. Then he preferred playing along with the crayons, putting in and out. I had to stopped this activity and tidy up the crayons by myself...-__-'

Numbers : Coloring #1
I think, he didn't really like much in coloring. He just did it in a minute! The rest, he scrambled out the crayons. Then I gave him a blue color pencil. However, he wanted to color it though it just took 5 minutes and then he was busy to pose.

Colors : Green

This week, I continued the color's things pasted in the drawing book. It's time to learn the secondary colors, after we had done with the primary colors (red-blue-yellow). He is able to point the right things that I mentioned in every single colors.

I asked him to paint the drawing book with green by paint brush. He loved to do it (using paint brush and applying to the drawing book). Few minutes after that, he became so uncontrolled. He painted his table and in the end, he refused to continue painting.
I'm done with the painting and continued again 2 days after that to paste the green things. He's so eager to do it. I applied the glue and gave him to paste it on his drawing book. He can do it now!

Things: green frog, green turtle, green grass, green peas, 2 green frogs, green crocodile and green tree.

Shape : Circle

This activity is supposed to be going on Thursday. As I didn't have many things to do in the afternoon, I decided to do this.

Science : Hot and Cold

As the first experiment that we did in the last day, I gave him 2 containers. I filled one with the some ice cubes and the other with the hot water. I asked him to put on both of his hands in every containers. *No pictures*

Practical Life
* Put the beads on the bottle*
He really loves to do it. He can finish it! We did it for 2 days. In the 3rd day, he refused it...

*Pouring water from glass to glass*

We did it during bathing time in the afternoon by using 2 plastic glasses. He still couldn't coordinate his both hands. When he wanted to pour the water, he still couldn't see where the other glass was. So the water was spilled out again and again. Keep trying, boy!

*Transferring objects from bowl to bowl*
He excels in doing this!

Learning Toys:
*Farm Puzzle*
Fritz is able to do this. He can put the animals in the right path and able to recognize the animals.

*Piggy Bank*

He also excels in doing this. He loves to save his money on his Mickey Mouse's Castle's Bank.

*Ring Sorter*

He refused to play this, so no pictures!

Reading Books:
This week he reads:
1. Vocabulary's Book - My Body
2. Touch and Feel Sheep
3. Barney, Go to the Pet Shop (Indonesia Version)

Movie:
1. The Cars
2. Baby Einstein (Farm Animals)

Happy sweet 17th months!

Same days 17th months ago, Wednesday...

This month, he really shows lots of developments.

Now, he is able to recognize some icons; Carrefour, Giant, Hypermart, Hoka Hoka Bento statues, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Bear in A&W, and few more...even I forgot to remember those....;p
He will point when he sees them along the way.

During his visit to one of hypermarket, he likes to take a thing that he had shown in the advertisement. One time, he could recognize Skippy Jam in the Alfa Midi when accompanied Poppa hunting some stuffs. Next, he took Milkuat Milk and insisted to bring them (he took 2 bottles) to the cashier and I had to pay those. Other times, he took a Pulpy Orange and again I had to pay in the cashier. In the end, he even didn't really like those things.

Most of all, he understands the orders we say to him. Some times, he wants to help me to do some chores, such as put the clothes to the laundry basket after taking a bath or throw the litter to the dust bin. Even, he ,with his awareness, threw the litter when he saw it in the floor. Nice boy, huh!

And some times, he can show his bad attitudes. Refused to take a bath in the afternoon by waving both of his hands and continuing his activities or even refused to wear his pajamas in the night because he felt so hot. He really doesn't want to wear it. If I put in, he always pulled his pants up till his thigh or pull one of his sleeve up.

He really a neat boy. No crumbs in his mouth or hands during eating time. If there is something messy in the table, he will wipe it with the tissue.

He is also a proper boy. He always reminds us to do something in proper ways.

One time, his Poppa wore his shirt untidy. He pull up half of his shirt on his belly because of the hot day. Then, Fritz pointed to his Poppa and asked him to put the shirt down and wore it properly.

Other case, we can't put off our sandals, he will asks us to put on again. If Opa takes off his eyeglasses for a moment to wipe his sweat, he will insist Opa to wear it again. He will stop grumbling if everything is done properly. That's Fritz!

He does what the elder do!

When I cook, he wants to see what I cook. When someone go with car, he wants to follow. When he wants to watch movie, he will try to turn on the DVD player by himself.

Truly copycat!

Pretend feeding his toys using spoon like I feed him.
Laughing like me with a big open mouth and cover it with hand.
Greeting when someone is going home by raising up his hands and saying "aaaaaaahhh" means "hi"

He is so close with his Opa. Likes to play along with Opa in his upper room and ask Opa to turn on his fave TV channel, Playhouse Disney and let Opa not to watch other channel. Opa is pampering him much.

He is also close with his Poppa. During teaching time, Poppa is taking care of him. Play along or doing afternoon walk with him. See a dog in the church or just see some oxes in the back side of our residential complex. Bathing him and feeding him. What a nice moment between dad and son!

He is babbling much nowadays. The clear words are "go-go", "oop" for stop, "baa" for peek a boo. That's all.

He loves appraisal. He shows it by showing his two thumbs as good sign.

Other bad attitudes are he doesn't want to share his belongings but he wants to take the others. He also doesn't want to play along with the younger and prefer playing with the elder. Next job of me to maintain these attitudes in his social life.

He's getting bigger and bigger now. He can drink UHT milk, the chocolate flavor ones. He also consumes vitamin everyday to complete his nutritious. He's taller. All of his clothes are getting tightly and also with his pants. I really need to buy the new ones.

My boy is really growing up now. I really can't wait to see him jumping, running, talking and screaming.

Two days ago, Friday, I just realized that Fritz has discovered new things. He loves to moves his toes under his socks.

When we went to Hypermart at Mall Matahari, BSD, suddenly he asked me to take off his left shoe and refused to put in again. Then he moved his toes under his socks in the middle of our shopping time!

I had to put him into the trolley because of his refusing. Here's the photos...

Presents...

Simply-hood!!

It's my new home-education's logo.

Simply-hood is my home learning education based on Montessori method. I take some teaching ideas from some American creative moms' blogs who also teach their own children. They are so creative with their ideas in teaching and really insipiring me to do as well as they do to their children.

With my simple things that I have, I'm trying my best to educate Fritz. I'm going to accompany him to explore and discover lots of new things around him.

Red Day
I had bought a drawing book and also had printed out the things in red. Such as red shirt, red shoe, red car, red short pants, red cellular phone and red bag. Then I cut it into pieces.

I asked Fritz to scribble the crayon on his drawing book with red crayon. After that, I applied some glue on the pictures and I gave to Fritz to paste it on his book. He didn't want to paste it actually, so I helped him to do it and told him the things I pasted.

In the end of this project, I replied again the red things on his drawing book. Hopefully, he will be able to recognize RED next.

Blue Day

Things in Blue are Blue Butterfly, Blue Spoon, Blue Fork, Blue Bottle, Blue Bowl, Blueberries, Blue bird and Blue Jeans.

I asked Fritz to apply blue paint and blue crayon in his drawing book. Firstly, he refused to paste the things. For the last 2 things, he wanted to paste it by himself.

In the end, I replied again the things he has pasted by pointing to the things.