Avi - 5/16/2017

Avilene ate bites of toasted rye bread and ate two servings of banana (substituted for grapes) for breakfast.  For lunch she ate some of ground burger, whole wheat elbow noodles, peas, and ate her applesauce.  She is doing so well feeding herself with a spoon now.

It's only Avi and Sophie at Little Treasures again today until the Cline girls come after school.  Avi was here for probably 45 minutes by herself.  So Lauralea and I were having fun getting her to say different words.  So CUTE!!  (Really cool words like "Avi, Gary, Lauralea."  Haha!)  I asked her; "Do you love Lauralea?"  She does the cutest big head nod.  :)

Speaking of words, she brought me some books and gave the command: "READ."  Ha!  Yes Master.  I was reading a line from the book that said, "My Baby likes to celebrate birthdays..."  Avilene said, "Happy Bir-day; Happy You."  And she was essentially singing it!  Nice job Avilene!!

Several years ago Lauralea and I would do formal developmental evaluations and I remember the section on "physical" and the large motor/small motor development.  One of the questions was about their ability to walk backwards.  This morning Avi was running at the mirror, going up against the bar, pushing off and essentially running backwards.  (Similar to what she was doing when I posted the picture in yesterday's Blog.)  I would say she has that conquered!!  Not walk backwards, but RUN backwards!!  Her large motor development continues to impress me!!

I took this first picture when Avilene and Sophie were playing the xylophones and Sophie was singing, "Mousey mousy in the housey."  Avi preferred to turn her's over (see 2nd picture) and make noise on the "ribbed" part.  A few minutes later they were playing at the sink with the food toys - cakes, cookies, and brownies in this food set.  Sophie said, "Gary, I have to go poop.  My brownies and cookies are cooking.  Can you keep an eye on them so Avi doesn't steal them."  Ha!  ok.