Avi - 4/13/2018

Avilene ate two servings of cream of wheat cereal and most of dried plums for breakfast.  For lunch she ate bites of baked beef kabobs with meat, peppers, zucchini, and mushrooms.  She ate bites of brown rice and a large serving of pineapple.  For some reason the cream of wheat stayed very liquid so it was breakfast in a cup and sucked through a straw.  They actually thought that was pretty cool.  Hudson said, "This is really good!"  Ha!  Which means it's worth a picture!!

Potty report:  At 10:00 Avi said, "I gotta go pee Gary!"  And she was dry.  Well done Avilene.  So here's what is developing as a important routine!!  Ha!  (Three times so far, but who's counting.)  She gets into the bathroom, peers into the toilet (it's clean), and says, "Somebody pooped in here!"  I have to ask, "Who?"  Avi says, "My Mommy."  Haha!  Sorry Molly, I probably shouldn't think that's so stinking (pun intended) hilarious!  Ok, now seriously, my opinion about Avi's progress:  She's doing awesome, this is happening on her initiative and again that's awesome and the easiest way to potty train a child!!  (Believe me I've seen it tried with only the parents being interested, not the child.  Not fun.)  The pooping in the toilet will come, but it's totally normal for kids to do only pee or poop as she's doing.  (It's different muscles involved.)  She's young and ahead of the curve (again, my opinion) so I'm thrilled with her progress.  She may lose interest and regain it later, but I'm betting she continues as long as we allow her to lead.

Here are some more pictures from this morning.  Does this first one look familiar?!?  Ha!  I like that I caught Atley in mid-air!  Next picture; the kids LOVE this special field trip (haha) every morning!!  Down the hall squealing with excitement to say hi to Linnea after her morning nap.  They love pounding on the door to announce their arrival!!  The last picture is another group favorite.  Waving at our neighbor "Big Willy" (or as Riley called him "old Billy" -  he and I had a great laugh over that) as he retrieves the mail.  Willy LOVES having the kids pound on the window and wave at him!