Avi - 8/8/2018

Avilene ate french toast and strawberries for breakfast.  For lunch she ate "Whole 30" chili with hamburger, tomato sauce, peppers, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes.  She ate whole wheat dinner roll and ate half of her tropical fruit.

This first picture is from yesterday afternoon when the kids asked to play in the sand table.  They had lots of fun scooping sand into the funnels which makes the wheels spin around.  By the way, I'm doing something different with the sand area in the next few weeks to make it more practical; plus I think they'll like it much better.  :)

I have a couple of short videos of the kids and I singing three or four songs.  The kids LOVE to watch those and they'll sing along, laugh, and giggle as they watch themselves!  Sometime this year we'll try to put together a little DVD for all the families.  (I'll shoot for getting it done by Christmas!)  This morning they were asking, "Can we look at the video!?!"  (By the way, Lauralea was the one taking it!)

Here are some pictures from this morning!!  First thing this morning Avilene was asking, "Can we snuggle Gary, can we snuggle!?!"  "Will you snuggle me Gary, will you snuggle me!?!"  So we snuggled and also did some selfies!!  :)  At the same time Hudson was on the floor playing with Svea! She really does like Hudson because he spends LOTS of time with her!  Sometimes when the babies are sleeping or whatever, Bubba will say, "I want a baby to talk to Gary!"  Ok, well there's one on the way!  Ha!  In the third picture Linnea is looking back and here's what she's thinking, "Oh! You're still here!"  Haha!  Svea had just rolled over and in towards Linnea.  Two cuties right there!!

A couple more pictures as well: Avi listening to Hudson read some books (this lasted for several seconds before conflict arose) and playing with Linnea on the mattress.  Two or three times I asked Avi to play a little more gentle with Linnea!  It was more for my sake than Linnea's!  I was cringing and Linnea was laughing!!  Geez!