I had a friend ask if I ever tandem breastfeed. For sure, it isn’t easy to tandem breastfeed especially the bigger they get.

There are problems such as how to balance two on a pillow, start burping one while the other is still feeding (especially when you have infants that spit up, A LOT) or to try and keep them from stabbing each other in the eye with their hands.

Nevertheless, the answer is yes, I do occasionally tandem breastfeed.

She then asked what motivated me to do so.

Easy, see picture posted!

We LOVE Dr. Seuss. We are reading several Dr. Seuss books weekly with our toddler and to our twins. In celebration of his birthday, the following are some of our favourite free printables and activities that we incorporate into our family in celebration of Dr. Seuss.

Personally, the more I read of Dr. Seuss the wittier I become with rhyming for everyday fun with my son. For example, off the top of my head, yesterday I started singing, “hurry hurry we must hurry, have an appointment we’ve got to scurry. Scurry scurry, can you scurry? Can you hurry? Show mama how we can scurry hurry.” My toddler was rushing around, quickly putting on his tennis shoes, and helping me carry items to the car while laughing all the way.  

Or when my toddler thinks it is funny to start jumping on the sofa, I might start saying: “hey bofa on the sofa I do not like for you to hop you must not hop on pop, you must not hop on the sofa bofa, I do not like that, I do not like that a lot”….ideas taken from Dr. Seuss books such as wocket in my pocket and hop on pop

The Hop on Pop book is to this day my favourite book to read. I started reading it to my son at the age of 2 months. When we travelled to Germany, at 5 months, he would sit still the longest when reading that book. At 2 years of age, he was reading and quoting from the book as well.

Here are some free printables to go along with the Hop on Pop book. Good for all ages!

Pup in Cup Worksheet for preposition practice and rhyming words

“op” word family manipulatives, coloring pages, worksheets

Here is a hop on pop coloring page. I can’t wait to surprise my son with this project. This is his favorite page from the Hop on Pop book.

Preposition practice for “in” and “on” by looking at pictures and reading the sentences.  

We are all Tall Worksheet

Foot Book...Feet, Feet, Feet! „In the house, and on the street, how many, many, feet you meet.“ To go along with Dr. Seuss’ Foot Book or How Big is a Foot;

Fun Activity Ideas

1. Count all the shoes in the house
2. Graph all the shoes according to characteristics
3. Trace and make patterns with your child’s shoes

Printables

1) A fun worksheet for matching opposites.

2) Printable feet template patterns that can be used for all kinds of feet activities. 

Green Eggs and Ham Book:

Fun Activity Ideas

1. Serve your children green eggs and ham
2. Dye some hardboiled eggs green
3. List all foods which are green
4. List favorite green foods

Printables

Green Eggs Math Mats for Counting, Addition, Subtraction

My son loves to collect „goodies“ from our neighborhood walks. For our walks, we take along a bag, and I let him collect a few treasures to take home. Once home, we usually spread our treasures out on a table and talk about them, or we create a craft with them.

Today, we collected leaves and talked about the letter “L” in the alphabet. I printed this great little printout, shown above, for the letter L. He colored the printout as we practiced saying the letter “L” and all the words starting with “L”, especially the word leaf. Then we glued our leaves, gathered from our walk, onto the printout. Click here for this free "L" printout.

Some food for thought today!

Romans 12:6:

Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us,

let us use them:

if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;

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