“Y” Day: We had yellow yolk in our scrambled eggs and yellow bananas for breakfast. Yummy! Our coloring page has a yak on it today. Of course our name Yates starts with Y as well as Yankees, Yosemite, and Yellowstone. We had yogurt and Yogos snacks today. We went to the library and checked out Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss and read it. We also ate yellow beans with dinner and York peppermint patties for dessert. Other Y words we thought of were yard, yes, Yoshi, yucky, yo-yo, yeah, yea, yacht, yell, yellow.
“Z” Day: For Z day we went to the Zoo and saw the zebras, and of course lots of other animals. We bought a membership to the Los Angeles Zoo in January and plan to try to visit the zoo about once a month at least this year. Since Z day landed on a day when we didn’t have a lot else planned, we spent the morning at the zoo with the Twichells. Perfect! We also thought of Z words zipper, zippy, zigzag, and zero. I made zucchini bread with chocolate chips figuring there was a lot better chance of the boys eating that than plain steamed zucchini, although I served that with dinner as well. As I expected, they barely looked at the steamed zucchini and declared they didn’t like it. Micah didn’t want to try the bread either, but Caleb ate some and loved it. He asked for more “sweet bread.”
So we made it through the alphabet. Micah wanted to start over again so I told him he is in charge of keeping track as to what letter day it is. Some days he remembers and talks about what letter day it is, and some days Caleb asks what the letter of the day is, but I am not too involved this time around. I put all their animal coloring pages into a report folder for each of them to have their own Animal Alphabet Book. They liked those and were excited to take their pencils and fill in some of the ones they hadn’t colored yet.