G for Egg.

I went to work today unprepared. This week, I am teaching The Babe the letter G, and usually with every letter I have a craft set up. Well, after learning about gardens, grasshoppers, giraffes, gorillas, and guitars this past week, I had no idea what was next. I was going to just improvise.

I put The Baby in her stroller, leashed the Pit Bull, and as The Babe held on to the stroller, we were off on our morning walk. We headed down the driveway, talking about how Green the Grass was, when I looked down. There, on the ground, was a freshly hatched egg.

I gasped. I bent down to look inside but it was empty. It was either a snake egg or a bird egg. Teeny tiny. The Babe looked at it and wanted so badly to pick it up and show her sister but I wouldn't let her. Who knows what was inside it.

We left it on the ground, but during the following fifteen minutes, we talked about what hatches from eggs. Birds, turtles, snakes, etc. It was a good lesson, but I still didn't really have an idea for a craft.

Then it hit me like a ton of eggs! You see, every week, The Babe learns a new letter. She started with A...this week is G. With every lesson, she learns how to write the letter, what it says, and some words that start with it. Well, since I was all out of G words, I was at a loss. Until I thought about how egg is spelled. With an E. The Babe could actually spell egg. (She knows how to spell words like dad, bed, bad - you know, words that are spelled with letters A-G). EGG! DUH!

We got back to the house, and while The Baby napped and The Babe watched Sesame Street, I set up her craft. Her egg craft.

It was a hit. We glued and she practiced her Gs. Then she spelled egg. She immediately remembered our conversation during our walk. "Member the egg? On the ground?"

She makes my heart smile.

Thank God for that egg.

I'm happier lately. Noticing these little things are what I need to do. And writing them down is even better.

And as cheesy as it sounds, I continuously need to thank Michael Jackson.

Thank you.

And for those of you interested, here is a picture of the egg craft from today.

I put a square around the two "eggs" in her handwriting (top left & bottom left).