Teaching Ellie and Surviving Daylight Savings

Ellie is a pretty smart cookie, well she is pretty intelligent as far as a two year old goes. I am not trying to sound braggy here, quite the contrary... It has actually been a real struggle for me lately to try and decide what to do with her. She knows her alphabet really well and her numbers pretty well (at least up to 15) and of course colors & shapes. She is getting to be really good at tracing and things of that sort. The problem is... she is two and while I want to continue teaching her because she is such a sponge right now but I also don't want her to enter school and be totally bored.

After much thought about this issue I have decided that I am just going to go with the flow and continue teaching her things and doing projects with her and when she is 5 and ready to enter kindergarten, we will assess the situation then. Who knows, I might have to home school her for a year or two or put her in a private school. I mean, Ellie is not a genius or anything, she just has a really good memory and is a bit ahead of other 2 year olds (for now).

Anyway, I recently had a workbook made for her at kinkos of a bunch of preschool worksheets that I got online. She has really loved working on it and has gotten a lot out of it so far. I had some basic worksheets where she had to color a letter or a number but she has grown past that so I am glad she has something else to work on. It has activities such as matching, tracing, differentiating between big and small, cutting, gluing and learning more about upper and lower case letters.
Here is Ellie reviewing her number flashcards. I have been trying to make an effort at least a couple times a week while Owen is napping or being good to do some sort of learning activity with her. She really enjoys learning. Does anyone have any ideas about what I should do with her to help her more? We play games that have some education incorporated into them, we do flashcards, crafts and worksheets but I am not sure what other sorts of things would be helpful for her.... I know some of my homeschooling friends can help me out with this, so let me know! Or just a general question-- what does everyone do with their small children to keep them busy... busy meaning not jumping on furniture or getting into things they're not supposed to, etc??? --- I tell you, now that real parenting is starting, it is kinda hard.

ON A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT NOTE:

Whoever came up with or continues to change daylight savings must not have small children. One of my friends wrote a blog about this and I would like to echo her sentiments.... I hate it! It takes months and months to get a child to sleep on a schedule and when you change that, a parent has to get their child to re-learn a routine just in time for it to change again!!!

For example, now Ellie and Owen are going to sleep when it is bright as day outside. They don't think it is bed time so they fight so hard and don't end up going to sleep until an hour later anyway. Now, one would think that they would sleep in an hour later... oh no... not OUR children. They wake up between 5 and 5:30 no matter what. Now Owen's nap schedule is ALL messed up. He isn't sleeping as well at night so he is tired earlier. This video is of him during lunch (about 11:30)... I saw him falling asleep so I ran for the camera. He was so pitiful that I had to pick up that little boy and rock him to bed--- plus it was nearing torture to just let him whine to sleep like that at the table.