More than one month ago we signed up on a Children's Picture Book Swap that Zoe at Playing by the Book hosted. The partners were assigned and we were matched with a great family at Spain….yupi!!!! It was soooooo excited!

Here is what we sent them: The story of Myrtle Marie by Carolyn Graham and illustrated by John Himmelman.

The story is a poem. Myrtle Marie is a huge turtle that a boy found on the beach. They play, dance and becomes friends, so they wanna be together and goes to live with him. Day passed and she started feeling sad: she misses her mom and dad. The boy, showing that a real friend just want you to be happy, take her back with her family. However, they know that there is somebody thinking about each other some place out there!

My daughter loves the pictures, see the turtle and the other characters and pictures. Also, she loves every animal, and, for hence, turtles!

It is a good story that teach about friendship, love and feelings….and as my partner told me….why sometimes it is hard to have pets….”they would miss their family”….

Here is Pinky very excited sending the package from USA directly to Spain!

You can bet she was excited!

So, after almost two weeks….I received an email confirmation of the package from my swap partner!!! Inside the envelope they found the book and some turtle pictures, a turtle parts of the body picture and a postcard….

Myrtle Marie made it to Spain!!!

So, what did we receive???

Another awesome picture book!!!

Around the world with MOUK- a trail of adventure!!!…by Mark Boutavant.

Picture taken from Paper tastebuds!

This is such a wonderful picture book with lots of PICTURES, for sure. There are plenty of details in EVERY page….and there are small balloons with conversations between characters….also…our favorite one….sometimes there are hidden objects or characters on the pages.

The story is about a character called Mouk, which leaves his friends and heads off on a tour of the world. Every page shows his great adventures in the different cities he visits with pictures of cultural characteristics, objects and food. He travels to Tokyo; Kangaroo Island, Australia; Sambava, Madagascar; Hydra, Greece; Lake Titicaca, Peru; New York and others. He always writes a letter to his friends telling his adventures. And the best part are the STICKERS…You can re-use them and move them from page to page.

Picture taken from Paper tastebuds!

I can just say, Pinky loves it!!!!…Thanks so much Fatima and Joan!

Here are our pictures!!!

Stickers!!! Very cute…

Our close-up to one of the pages!

Thanks so much to Zoe from Playing by the book fro hosting this amazing swap and for letting us to participate….We had a wonderful experience and lots of fun!!!

Blessings!

Oh yeah…I love everything in relation with art….or maybe creativity is a best name…Maybe????

I used to draw…nothing fancy and never had the opportunity to officially study paint or take art classes….but it was my dream and still is…Take art classes is so fun, relax, lovely, creativity, joyful…..ok, I am getting melodramatic!!!

So, this is the story: I am a member of Swap-Bot and there was some swaps for coloring pages….theme: Thanksgiving…

The first one- Thanksgiving cornucopia coloring page (yes! just coloring). However, I am a kind of Not-on-duty artist and added some stuff to the coloring picture…..or maybe I was so relaxed….Here is my swap and let me know what do you think!! I would love to her your comments….

I added a quote of Melody Beatti:

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

In this one, I was just playing with my camera…and LOVE IT!!!

The second one- was a Thanksgiving coloring page…anything in relation…I had two swappers, so did two different coloring pages…..Here are the results!

Thanksgiving dinner!

I love this one! It inspire to share.

So, if you are looking for some relaxation therapies….just start coloring and let your creativity and imagination to flow!!!

Blessings!

Since my little girl is just 2 years…it was hard to find a good Thanksgiving book or craft to do with her…she still doesn’t understand what is to be grateful for something…ok….she says Thank you or Gracias or Merci….but when I asked her to tell me something that she loved and wanted to says Thanks to God for that….lol…..she looked at me….and kept saying: yeah mommy….thank you!….ok…so we can’t do some fabulous crafts out there….but we did ours….

We are thankful for our family….which most of them are far away…..and I want Pinky to know them and get in some kind of relation with them and their names….I think this would help at the moment of traveling to see the family, which we don’t see since more than a year…

She loved our tree and our pictures……so excited to see some people that she already knows and some that she doesn’t remember. Furthermore, I add some pictures of things that she likes, as Mickey and Minnie, Flowers, water, and Swings (her favorites) .

So let us know what other activities are you doing with your toddlers and PLEASE!!!…how do you are teaching them what’s the meaning of Thanksgiving???

We love our family!!! Thanks God for everyone of them and our friends!

Linking to Show and tell….go and check other awesome ideas!

Blessings!!!

Pinky’s daddy is out of state, out of country and out of this part of the hemisphere…he’s at China! yupi!!-for him…and ugh!-for us.

So for keep him on date of what is going on with us, here’s our letter…phone calls are expensive and the trip is for more than a week! :{

Baby, I miss you like crazy.....even that most of the time you make me feel anxious and mad and really crazy…lol.....I love you!...hey....the princess just felt asleep as soon as we hang out the phone call...maybe she is feeling relax now that she talked to you....she is snoring..lol...It was so great to hear you an that you re fine.....How is China?....you have to tell me EVERYTHING!!!....did you go to a place already.....?....how was the trip...when did you arrive?...how is the hotel.....did you met somebody?..are you talking Chinese already?.....take LOTSSS/ PLENTY of pictures.....and don’t forget to buy me something nice…..ok…just have fun!

About our day... we went to sleep yesterday at 9:30...I think princess gets bored with me so she goes to sleep without any complains...and she woke up today at 10 30am.....GOODDDD!!!!....so she ate “cremita”...(hot cereal). Then she finished some of the things for Halloween and the letter H that I couldn't finish with her on October....ufff.. I’m so behind with her "school".....so she was learning about things that are orange...she finished painting them, glued them on an orange paper and we pasted on her bedroom door.....she was so excited....also she played putting cornflakes eyes to some monsters pictures....we used a color cornflakes so she could match with the different color monsters......she had fun with them but when I turned around, I caught her eating the cornflakes....lol....I told her that it was for the monsters and she said: No mommy, is mine....yummy!!! and gave that unique smile...don't worry I took a picture for you!.lol...
We didn't do too much today, just watch some cartoons....play silly games (we dressed up with her silly hats and your glasses....-took pics of that too!.... ;)
I was preparing something for Thanksgiving....so we can start doing it, and later take Christmas....she is loving Christmas so far....yesterday we went to the dollar store and she saw a stuffed Santa doll...and gave it a kiss and said: I love Santa!.....she likes Snowman, too!....so maybe this year I can take out our Christmas tree....I think she would love to decorate with me...-hopefully she won’t take them to play, later!!!

So now she is sleeping....I a going to organize her stuff....so we could do something tomorrow....

We miss you....!!!!...Did I tell you that yesterday night I was talking to mommy and she asked me for the phone...and said: Hi tata! Where's dada?.....For sure....she thinks that you are with mommy in that place that is called Puerto Rico....dito!!! tan inocente mi nena...!!!

Cuidate muchisisimo bebe! and enjoy a lot......don't talk too much....I love you! I love you...and princess more!

The cute little monster are from a great Halloween package that Alison from Oopsey-Daisy put together….It is AWESOME!!!…I still have some other activities we did…maybe later!

Blessings!

Aunque mi nena solo tiene 27 meses,, ha estado aprendiendo a ser mas independiente en sus cosas. Por ejemplo, toma su vaso de agua o jugo de la nevera cuando asi lo desea. Hace un par de meses se le esta ensenado sobre ir al bano cuando tiene necesidad y aunque ha sido un poco dificil luego que su abuelita regreso a PR, hemos vuelto a lograr que ella diga cuando quiere ir. Sin embargo, en momentos en que tiene algun “liqueo”, como le digo, decidi que aprendiera a lavar su ropa. Por su parte, le encanto la idea; despues de todo habia agua envuelta!

My daughter is only 27 months old but she has been learning about independence. For example, she take he cup of water or juice whenever she wants or fruits, as well, from the fridge. Furthermore, since a few months now, she has been potty training, however, we had some difficulties on between after my mom left back to PR. Thanks God we are getting back on track and she’s doing great again. But, whenever those “licks” happen, she is learning how to wash her clothes. I can tell you, she loved the idea; since it has to do with water!

Coloque dos cubetas de agua dentro de la banera, pues puede ser bastante el desorden con el agua!. Una cubeta con un poquito de detergente y otra solo con agua. Tomo un cepillo para cepillar su ropita, la moja con el detergente y luego a la cubeta de solo agua a enjuagar. Al final, a mover las manitas y deditos para tratar de escurrir el agua y luego a dejarla secar. Sencillo, practico para que aprenda a cuidar sus cositas y divertido pues al final resulto todita mojada y lista para seguir jugando con el agua…..

I put two buckets of water; one with a little bit of detergent and one only with water. with a brush, she brushed her clothes on the water with detergent and then put it on the bucket with water. At the end, she practiced her motor skills, squishing her clothes to dry them. It was an easy, practical (she would learn to take care of her belongings) and fun activity with a very wet result….just playing with water…what she loves the most!

Blessings and HAVE FUN!

The cutest Ladybug!

Blessings,

Linking to these great blogs:

Home Grown Families

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My organized chaos

Linking to:

Home Grown Families- she has a very interesting pic….can you find it?

5 minutes for mom

Blessings!