Adult/Baby/Toddler/Kid Activities (2-year-olds)

My granddaughter Alex was born in December 2018.
Here are things we do at different ages.
I want to keep track of them!

This page covers 2-year-olds (from about 24 months to 36 months).

Activities for other ages:
newborn to 24 months
3-year-olds



January 2021
We don't get much snow
here in Sahuarita, Arizona.
This might be
Alex's first snow experience!

Alex in snow
(36 seconds)

The Hubelino marble runs are pricey, but awesome.
(Alex was fascinated by dropping marbles in Gravity Maze;
these marble runs are more age-appropriate.)

February 2021 (20 secs)
An iPad!
(Besides being fun for Alex,
it gives a new testing platform
for my website).
The Bimi Boo apps are very good.




February 2021 (14 secs)
Singing ‘Wheels on the bus’
(at the end,
she's saying ‘all through Halloween’)

February 2021
Valentine's Day crafts!

February 2021
‘Alex is helping’ cooky monster!
After helping Grandma,
Alex gets to feed it cookies!

March 2021 (28 secs)
‘The boom truck
goes Vroom Vroom Vroom...
The kids on the bus
go Hi Hi Hi...
all through the town.’
(My father-in-law has accumulated
lots of stuff over many decades.
We're gradually getting it cleaned up.)



March 2021
Nap time has never
been easy at Grandma's house.
(I think we just have
waaaayyyy too much fun here!)
The outside hammock helps ...
so we got an inside hammock, too!

March 2021
Alex is fascinated with motors,
and Ray (Grandpa) can teach her lots!

May 2021
(about 2 yrs 5 months)
Who ever knew that a pair of pants
could make such a good rocket ship!?

May 2021 (12 secs)
Learning to crack an egg!
Julia says:
‘That was maybe not the one to catch on film!’
But she picked out most of the shells herself!




May 2021
First-ever haircut!
(Starting to emerge from the COVID pandemic!)

May 2021
Fixing sticky keys on the old piano
with Grandpa Ray.
(Great beard, Ray!)
In August 2021 we got a new Yamaha digital piano,
so no more key frustrations.

June 2021
Grandma Carol went to Hawaii
with Alex, Julia and Tony!



June 2021
A princess in Hawaii!

July 2021
Planting the vegetable garden at Pebble

September 2021
Our ‘hanging pumpkin’—
the garden a couple months later!

September 2021 (23 secs)
Alex is about
2 years 10 months here.
Scissor skills
are coming along great!



September 2021
Important life skills with Ray.
You never know when you'll need
to change a tire on a massive compressor!
Alex hand-tightened a bolt, and also used a wrench.

October 2021
Making oobleck!
(1.5 cups cornstarch, 1 cup water, food color)
It can be both a liquid and a solid (with pressure applied) at room temperature.
(Don't throw it down the drain—it can cause a clog.
Just put it in the trash or compost.)

October 2021
Cleaning out the home-grown pumpkin...

October 2021
... and the finished Jack-O-Lantern
(Alex chose the face—
she decided she wanted a scary one!)



October 2021
She's saying: Aargh!!
Usually, toilet paper is an opportunity for a discussion about not being wasteful...
But—for a Halloween treat—I said we could use an entire roll to wrap her up like a mummy!
(We didn't actually use the whole roll...)

October 2021
Making ‘buckets of worms’ from the Klutz Candy Book.
We used small bathroom cups covered in aluminum foil;
holes punched in sides and pipe cleaners for handles.
Crushed chocolate cookies for dirt:
a mixture of Oreos (filling removed) and a lighter-brown chocolate biscuit.
There are ‘tiny worms’ (gummies) mixed into the dirt,
and big ones crawling on top.
Such fun!

Halloween, October 2021
Wonder Woman Alex
(for daycare dress-up day)

Halloween, October 2021
Bonnie Shafto
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Bonnie Shafto's gone to sea,
silver cutlass on her knee,
fighting pirates, one, two, three.
Ahoy there, Bonnie Shafto!
Bonnie Shafto's brave and bold,
though the waves are icy cold,
and she's only six [actually, two!] years old.
Yo-ho, Bonnie Shafto!



November 2021
First McDonald's Happy Meal! (She chose a burger.)
First picnic on the upper deck of our play structure!
This was extra special because Alex's Aunt Eris was visiting from Massachusetts.

Fall 2021
This is Alex's super cute potty chair at Pebble!
Grandma Carol got it (she thinks) from the ‘Sharing Room’ at the Monterey dump
when she was living in Massachusetts.
We were lucky—when Alex decided that diapers were passé
we got both days and nights at roughly the same time.