Avi - 11/27/2017

Avilene had bites of bran cereal and ate raisins for breakfast.  For lunch:  From her chicken salad she ate chicken, olives, half of tomatoes, and a bite of cucumber.  Ate avocado, pears, and pita bread.  She was saying, "More pears, more pears!"  So I told her if she'd eat her chicken I'd give her more pears.  Several minutes later Avi said, "I eat my chicken; more pears."  And she'd ate all of it.  :)  Also, shortly after she arrived this morning I asked, "What'd you do last night?"  Yup, just what I thought she'd say; "I ride the carousel!"  Lauralea heard all about the carousel too while I was gone.

I had an awesome time in Louisiana with my precious daughter and her husband.  (He's a great guy too!!)  I just have to include a couple pictures from my trip - I'm limiting it to just two pictures, ha! So here are a couple that are quite different from what we see in Montana and they typify the State of Louisiana!!  1st picture:  Love these boats and I'm going on a ride up some bayous on my next trip there!  2nd picture:  My daughter only lives about 40 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico and any houses right on the Gulf waters are built high!!

I love the first day back from time away.  So many loves!!!  In this next picture I turned around and these two had moved the yellow bench over here and sat down to read some books!  Shortly after I took the picture Hudson was reading/singing "Baby Beluga" to Avi.  She knows it too of course, but she was just listening to him.  That was cute.  We had so much fun just hanging out, reading books, and enjoying being together again!

I was feeding the Baby her bottle and Nora comes over and held up a book saying, "Ah, ah, ah, ah..." It was obvious what she wanted so I asked her if she wanted me to read her the book and she said, "Yeah."  It always amuses me when this age group isn't even aware that you might be doing something else and not able to meet their immediate "want."  (not "need.")  So I said, "Did you notice I'm feeding Baby Linnea?"  Avi (who was sitting on the couch beside me) chimed in and said, "read book."  So again I asked, "What am I doing?"  Avi said, "read Row Row."  (That was the name of the book.)  LOL!  So typical and it cracked me up!!