Avi - 1/23/2017

Avilene ate cheerios and banana for breakfast.  For lunch she ate cheese sandwich, drank tomato soup, and ate pickled beets.  Avi, along with Sophie and Bubba, love the pickled beets.  When I first introduced them a few months ago I had to encourage the kids just to lick them or "kiss them goodbye." (Anything to get a touch of the juice on their lips!  Ha!)  Reid is not here today; he too will eat them, but doesn't care for them as much as these three kids do.  Sophie had 3 servings!

We did a toy, book, and puzzle exchange this weekend and Avilene was SO busy checking out everything.  (Kind of like how she plays everyday, but with a touch of urgency!!)  In the picture below all the "big" kids here were playing with these pop-up toys.  Avilene apparently liked them a lot because I saw her go back to them at least 4 or 5 times!

Avi was thumping on this xylophone with a toy (still in her left hand), so Bubba took the yellow handle and was giving her some lessons on proper xylophone thumping!  Sophie said, "Uhhh...that hurt my ears!"  Speaking of Sophie, she was being the "Momma" this morning and was doing so quite authoritatively!  Ha!  She had Avi by the wrist and was pulling her to where she needed to be.  I rescued Avi as soon as I saw what Sophie was doing - Uhhh....Sophie, Avi doesn't care to play like that.  The look on Avilene's face was classic; Pleeeeeease don't let her do this to me!!!!   Neither one of them fussed about it, but went on their merry way.

Avi had a great morning - being silly like in the 2 pictures below!!  She played with the phones, looked at books, sat on my lap for 1 story at Story Time, looked at posters, looked out the window, and watched me closely while I was setting up Breakfast and Lunch.  She likes keeping an eye on everything that is going on around her!