This morning Accalia needed to do a little nude interpretive dance to get the blood flowing. Those tapes from Brighter Vision Learning Adventures have been such a hit with her. I don't know exactly how we stumbled across this company, but I signed up to get the free initial shipment sometime after Accalia was a year old, and she's loved them ever since.

With S&H, they cost about $17, and one is sent each month. Each month there's a theme, and this month's is about our bodies and how they move. There's always a hardcover book, a workbook, a craft, a game, stickers and maybe one other thing. So this time she got a book about how our bones and muscles and joints work, a corresponding workbook, a craft to make stick puppets, a growth chart and a dominos game. The craft is usually the thing she goes for first. Then sometimes she wants to play the game or read the book right after that. She likes me to read the workbooks to her but could care less about tracing letters and other things the company has deemed age appropriate. Her packages were "upgraded" when she turned 3, so she no longer receives a music tape. And the workbooks used to have stickers to put on certain pages, which she just loved.

So we've definitely been pleased with Brighter Vision, and I'm sure when Cole's older we'll probably start ordering him his own package. I think part of the thrill for Accalia right now is that she gets mail. And she loves that! Every day I hear, "Is that for me?" Good thing she thinks it's pretty cool to open junk mail.