We got a cool surprise in the mail today, a package from the Mealer grandparents filled with eight double sided placemats. The kids LOVE, love, love them and are sitting around the living room now reading them! They are heavily laminated so we can use dry erase markers on them and wipe them off and use them at mealtimes as well – these are fantastic, we’re so excited about them.

Topics include the presidents of the US, the solar system, multiplication tables, world map, US map, shapes, numbers and letters. The backs have games and more information for the kids and they are all entranced, from the 8 year old (telling me who is on each bill or coin as he looks as the presidents) down through the 1 year old (yelling, “W! One!” as he identifies things.)