Avi - 5/9/2018

Avilene ate a couple bites of french toast and ate strawberries for breakfast.  For lunch she ate half of ground beef, ate whole wheat hamburger bun, no tomato, half of lettuce, ate avocado, and ate half of her oranges.  So at Lunch Hudson was apparently conducting a random Infant/Toddler survey with only one question, but three options to choose from.  "Do you like Momma, Daddy, or pizza?"  The question was first directed at Avilene, but Atley and Nora wanted to participate as well.  The good news - all three answers got votes.  The bad news - the answers must remain confidential!!  :)

Avi was doing all sorts of puzzles again this morning.  Hudson was working on a puzzle she wanted and she said, "I wanna do the hard puzzle."  And that's what we call it.  (Not the one in the picture.) The hard one doesn't have any pictures on the board and it's all race cars with basically the same shape.  So it does "stretch" their puzzles abilities.   Speaking of puzzles all the kids help Nora with puzzles.  I still have Nora do them in the play room, but she's getting close to another try in the puzzle area.  (I basically need them to stay in the puzzle area rather than exploring the house.)  Hudson walked by when she finished a puzzle and asked; "You want to do another puzzle?"  "Yes!"  So he takes the finished one back and retrieves her another one.  Later it was Avilene; "You wanna do another one?"  This time the answer was "no."  But Avi put the finished one away.

I fed Svea a bottle and was talking to her.  She was getting so tired her eyes were rolling around in her head, but when I laid her down she still had a big smile for me.  What a little sweetie.  So I got the camera for this picture.

It's kind of difficult to do sign language and sing songs with actions and take pictures at the same time.  But I wanted to give you an idea what that looks like.  You can see them lined up on the little step at the window.  When I mention signs or songs they race to this step!  They all participate real well.  Also, a note about Story Time.  We were reading the book "Five little Monkeys jumping on the bed."  Before I started Avi said, "Three monkeys jumping on the couch!"  Haha!  Close!