Ladybugs, Lions & Lizards! Oh My!

L Day started off early with breakfast. 

When D was heading to the table, I told him that he was going to have a special breakfast for L Day, to which he replied, "A special breakfast? I so excited!" Have I mentioned that my son is awesome? But unlike the caterpillar snack from yesterday, he dove right into his lion waffle*.

*It was a waffle, mandarin oranges, banana slices and two chocolate chips in the eyes. You'd think I was a gourmet chef from his happy reaction.

Confessions activity

Since breakfast was such a hit, Dylan was ready to immediately dive into L Day activities. He wanted to do a L puzzle. Okay, I know that the upper/lower sorting game isn't a puzzle, but he didn't argue. He is getting to be a pro at sorting his letters. He did this one quickly without any help or any hesitation. I was pretty excited...and proud.

Confessions activity

Next, we did the letter search. There were so many Ls in there! He is really good at finding the ones at the beginning of words, but finding ones in the middle was a little harder. This was definitely his most challenging letter search so far.

One of our afternoon crafts that we were both excited about was building a L Lizard. Dylan had a little example picture and I cut out all the pieces. I was on glue duty and he put everything in its place. It turned out really cute!

Placing the head

The L Lizard!

We took the L hunt into Dylan's room looking for more L stuff. He ran straight to his bed and pointed out the L in his name.

And there is a lion picture on the wall!

Our last craft of the day (after doing his L Dot sheet) was creating a ladybug. I showed him how to use the glue stick on the back of the dots and he concentrated SO hard. It was really cute to watch.

The movie of the night was The Lion King. I love watching the opening sequence with Dylan because he gets so excited seeing all the animals. When the baby and adult giraffe came onto the screen (as the song says, "...and blinking step into the sun") Dylan said, "Awww! A baby and mama giraffe. Dats so cute!" What a nut!