One of my goals for this new year is to actually blog on my blogs! I know, novel idea. I really want to document what we do, so that I remember it and so someone else might actually use our ideas. Please feel free to tell me what you would like to see on the blog. This year my big girl is 13, and my little girl is 3. They both keep me VERY busy. Biggy is so independent, she wants to do everything alone and though that is good, she doesn't realize the potential for disaster at times. She is very creative and curious and really just a joy. She has Down Syndrome and sensory integration disorder. Her greatest struggles include speech, language and math. She has severe apraxia, but desperately tries to communicate. We are going to spend a lot of time on that this year.
Bitty is like a little tornado. She doesn't just "do things", she massacres them! She talks non-stop and is as smart as a whip. She amazes me with her memory and recall and she has the best sense of humor. She has sensory issues and some other things going on that I am desperately trying to figure out. My biggest struggle with her is to keep her calm enough to get her attention and focus.
I'm currently in the process of refining our goals for the year, gathering our supplies and making some things. I thought I would share a picture of one item that I made last night. These are number cards. I made them out of rectangular foam squares. I wrote the number, traced the numicon shape (so they could match it up) and then a spot to put a clothespin on for each number.
