Last week was “E Week” here and we really enjoyed it. Adam insisted on putting on his fireman costume after breakfast most mornings (and it was pretty adorable).

I had gotten some fun new school supplies for my birthday and Adam was so excited to try them out. Thanks mom and dad for the alphabet tile magnets. I printed out this tree with all the letters on it in lower case and Adam had to match them up with the correct upper case letter. We did this activity a few times and he really liked it. He had a bit of trouble with lower case b/d and p/q, but other than that got the rest of the letters with no problem.

Both boys loved playing with these pom pom magnets that we made (thanks Gram & Lo for the gift cards).

I plan on picking up the supplies to make more the next time I go to the store. Luke played with them for a long time, moving them from the cookie sheet to the desk and then to the dishwasher and any other magnetic surface I pointed out.

I also got some bingo chips for my birthday (thanks Stacy) and so we used those a couple of different ways.

Adam used them to find all of the letter e’s in a story. When he was done he asked if he could do it again “his way” and put markers on all the other letters too. The story reads: “Elsa the elephant balances eleven eggs on her head. Careful Elsa!”. When I read it to Adam the first time he added, “And Elsa said, I have it all under control”. (And just for the record Gramma E, I didn’t make up the story, I found it online).

And it wouldn’t have been E Week without some letter art. We made a pink elephant (no grey construction paper, but Adam didn’t seem to mind).

We also made a fun eagle. The wings were made by tracing Adam’s hands and I thought that was pretty neat. When I had him tell Dave about it though I said, “Tell Daddy what the eagle’s wings are made out of” and Adam looked at Dave and said, “They made out of paper Daddy”. Not quite what I was going for…

We did some math equations this week with these fun monsters. Adam told me what kind of mouth/face he wanted each monster to have and then he had to complete the equation using eyes. In the picture above he was holding up some of the extra eyes and pretending to look through them.

I made sure none of the monsters ended up with more than four eyes and that worked much better for him than the frogs last week.

I think Adam’s favorite part of “E Week” though was watching the movie Dumbo for the first (second, third, fourth, and fifth) time. I have never seen him so mesmerized by a movie. When I asked him if he liked it he said, “It’s really, really good Mama”. It was his Uncle Steve’s favorite movie when he was a kid and I love seeing Adam enjoy it too.