Avi - 11/15/2017

Avilene ate whole wheat toast and two servings of grapes for breakfast.  For lunch she ate pork roast, most of whole grain tortilla, ate vegetables (carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes), and fruit salad.  This situation at breakfast didn't really faze Avilene at all, but I'm still gonna post it!  It was a little chaotic during breakfast time; especially for Nora.  We had a situation with the sump pump in the basement yesterday and the plumber was scheduled to be here at 8:00 this morning.  Well of course he showed up about 45 minutes late - about the same time as Hudson, Avi, and Nora.  Thank goodness it was a quick fix (like I thought it might be) and he was done by 9:20 while we were still eating breakfast.  So what was the problem you ask!?  Well Nora saw his face! Yikes!  Poor Nora was screaming (LOUD) because I was not in the lunch room and she couldn't see me.  Baby Linnea had fallen asleep in the Baby chair and I was putting her sleeper on her so she could go to bed and she was crying.  Poor Linnea.  "Sorry," I said to the plumber,  "It's not usually like this!  (Pause) Sometimes it's worse!"  (Humor!)  I'm sure he'll never try to get his child into Little Treasures!  Ha!

Last night I found this "score card" in the lunch room where Kenzie and Riley were doing some art after snack yesterday.  I have no idea what it was - Kenzie is always creating a game of some sort - but if "low score" wins then Nora, Avi, and Gary rocked this game.  Knowing how Kenzie thinks I'm sure that is NOT the case.  :)  I thought this was really cute.

Here are some pictures from this morning's activities: the song on the iPod was "If you're Happy and You Know It...clap your hands!"  Atley immediately started clapping and Avi joined her.  Then it was ....."happy and you know it stomp your feet."  That was the verse when I took the picture.  Avi and Atley were stomping their feet!!

They were all excited about the new baby so I asked if they wanted to see Linnea on the monitor!!  "YEAH!!"  Here's a picture of that occasion!  :) Not really what they had in mind for "seeing the baby," but it's the best we could do at the moment!  So the last picture shows the baby hanging out with her new friends!  Atley and Avi had just left the gate and it was cute to see all 4 "older" kids looking at the baby, but my camera was on the changing table.