Avi - 6/18/2018

Avilene had two servings of kix cereal and ate two servings of mixed fruit for breakfast.  For lunch she ate ground turkey, whole wheat hamburger bun, no tomatoes, half of avocado, and ate cherries.

We did a toy, book, and puzzle exchange this weekend and Avilene stayed pretty busy all morning playing with the toys.  Hudson and Avilene were playing with the food toys for a long time and Hudson was doing the cooking and they were feeding the dolls; which they were calling their "babies." Hudson said he was cooking and Avilene said, "I'm the feeder!"  :)  I haven't really talked specifically about this, but I'm sure you are noticing how their play is becoming more complex - moving into more dramatic types of play where they create their own games, recreate something from their everyday life, something they see on screen, from older cousins or siblings, older kids at childcare, or many combinations of these.

I was listing the colors of the doll blankets in Nora's Blog and I said, "If I'm wrong on these colors you can all blame Avi; I got my color information from her!!"  :)  She's my go-to-girl for color help!! Thank you Avi!!  I remembering telling one little girl years ago that I didn't know my colors and she said, "I know you're kidding me."  :)

Here are some pictures from Avi's morning.  First picture; trying on different masks and checking them out in the mirror.  2nd picture; Hudson had barricaded the entrance to the igloo and sequestered himself inside.  Ha!  Avi joined him for several minutes, but she got tired of it.  He learned this from the Cline girls; they were always doing this with the pillows and sometimes including Hudson in their play.  Later, Avi tried to get Atley to join her in the "dark" igloo (Avi's description), but Atley wanted no part of that!  And the third picture - Avi and Atley working on the "new" puzzles.  (Momma Molly may have noticed Avi is wearing different pants.  Not a big deal; I'll explain this afternoon.)

Svea took a huge nap this morning!!  Shortly after you guys left she woke up and I just moved her to her crib and she continued her nap and slept until almost noon!!  After a bottle she played on the floor; protected by the fence so Linnea couldn't maul her!!  Linnea tried hard to scale the fence, but it withstood the pressure!  I took this picture when Svea joined me when I was working on Blogs!  She was just whipping her head back-n-forth being a goof!  It's so funny when they learn new "tricks" like that!!