Annabelle's first day of "school"

Today was the start of our "school" year with Annabelle. We have been teaching her colors and letters for about a month. She really seems to enjoy it, and she is actually learning! So I set out to find some "preschool" work for her to do. I ordered 123 preschool projects. It's already put together by day and gives lots of hands on work. We hope she really learns from this, but if not....at least she had fun, and that is what really matters when your two.

Today was letter X day. We made an x-ray man. We started out with a blank sheet of red paper. Then she glued on two x's an upper case and lower case x. Then the man, and mommy put some glue on the arms and legs and she put the q-tip bones on. After that mommy made some x's on paper and I asked her to also make some x's......she tried, but we really didn't get an x. It was fun none the less.

Child Activities

Since Annabelle is getting older we are adjusting our schedule to make more time for child activities. Something that we have done since she was 3 months was let her watch a reading video. She loves this and we do it every morning just after breakfast. After that's done with she has about an hour to play before I put her back down for a mid morning nap. She is getting better about playing by herself during this time, so I can either clean up our breakfast dishes and get lunch somewhat started. She will sleep from about 9:30 to 11:30 and then its time for lunch. After lunch I have nothing planned. So its just free playtime. She is acting like she wants more structure during this part of her day. My struggle is what do you do with a 13 month old child? We play together with her toys, but there is only so long I can sit on the floor, and sometimes its hard to get back up.
I plan to start reviewing her ABC's daily with the ABC bible memory book.
We have tried "coloring" and she seems to want to bang the crayons together more than "color".
Any ideas for activities?

A homeschool family!

This is so funny! You must watch it.