This week for letter O has been all about otters! Esmeralda and I have been reading Oscar Otter, an I Can Read Book by Nathaniel Benchley. Since we have been enjoying that book, we chose to continue the otter theme by adding it to our nature alphabet book this week! We found our facts from otter-world.com. Here is some of what we learned below:
Consume mainly fish even though most assume most of diet from plants and berries!
Males are called meowters, females are queens, and Read more [...] Nature Alphabet Book: Otter
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This week for letter O has been all about otters! Esmeralda and I have been reading Oscar Otter, an I Can Read Book by Nathaniel Benchley. Since we have been enjoying that book, we chose to continue the otter theme by adding it to our nature alphabet book this week! We found our facts from otter-world.com. Here is some of what we learned below:
Consume mainly fish even though most assume most of diet from plants and berries!
Males are called meowters, females are queens, and Read more [...] 
Each week, I will feature five posts that were linked to the previous week’s Kid’s Co-Op linky to share with you!
CAUTION! Twins at Play has an awesome post for a DIY water ramp that I know my kids would love to play with since they love playing in water.
This yarn octopus from Simply Home caught my eye as soon as I saw it because it is so cute, and we are doing our own octopus craft next week!
Learn Create Love has a fun winter craft for you: snowman art!
These paper roll flower 
In this week’s addition for my tiny tot, you will find a bedtime book, gross motor skills combined with size and color learning, a YouTube song, and a water painting activity! Look below to see what we have for you!
Bedtime Reading:
This week's bedtime story was a big hit for Emilio (almost 20 months), as well as with his big sister! We have been reading Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton. Inside the book there are a lot of different animals you would find in a barn. If you read the book 
My 3.5 year old daughter is getting very excited for her baby sister to be born. She knows she is coming before her fourth birthday in February. Baby is arriving on February 13 and Esmeralda's fourth birthday will be three days later on the 16th. She likes to pretend that she is growing a "baby Isabella" in her belly like mommy is. She is also very involved in picking things out like fabric for the rocking chair and also helping me get her room set up.
For Christmas, my brother's family 
Esmeralda and I are taking a break from her usual stuff until after New Year's, so we are just doing random fun projects. We wanted to try this Do It Yourself Bubble Shooter project, but it was not working out for us. Hardly any bubbles would come out at all. My 3.5 year old quickly found something else to do: growing bubbles!
What You Need:
Water
Baby wash
Straw
Container
A child ready to have fun with bubbles!
What You Do:
Mix one part baby wash and one part water together 
Letter I is all about iguanas! I started Letter I off this week with flash cards, one being an iguana. I had no idea that Esmeralda was so excited about iguanas until then, so I was glad that I had planned out iguana for our Letter I addition to our nature book.
To find some information on iguanas, Esmeralda and I looked at the Green Iguanas page on National Geographic Animals! Along with reading the paragraphs about iguanas, we saw a map, looked at the picture, and read some of