A day of firsts

Tuesday was a day of firsts.

Play school

We hosted our play school group for the first time. I joined an attachment parenting group through meetup.com through which I have subsequently  joined a playschool group. We (myself and four other Mums plus toddlers) meet every Tuesday morning. We take it in turn to host and organize the activities.

The group is great. It adds more structure than a play date and more focus on the children and their development. A high level of commitment is expected from the mums.

We start with a welcome song, sing other songs, then have the activity followed by free play, a snack, a story then the closing song. My chosen activity yesterday was around building and balance and we provided tangerines and raisins as snacks. All in all a great session which Ethan is really enjoying.

Library

We finally joined the library in Mamaroneck and Ethan checked out his first three books which we have already read.

Shoes

I took Ethan to Millers of mamaroneck, it's a toy/bike/clothes/shoe shop for kids and also measures feet. It won't surprise you to hear he is smaller than the smallest size but luckily only by half a size so he now has his first big boy shoes.

Ice cream

We (well I was) were missing our afternoon ice cream from holiday so we visited the local ice cream parlour for the first time and had home made ice cream. Yum!

Two toddlers

I babysat Lucy, one of Ethan's friends, for 1.5hrs while her Mum went to an appointment. So I had two toddlers for the first time on my own. And we survived!

So a day of lots of new firsts. This week is also throwing up more firsts, it's our first week with two snow days (so far) with both Monday and Wednesday seeing all Ethan's activities cancelled. And later in the week we have out first 2014 visitors when Will and Charlotte arrive on Friday :-)