Avi - 4/23/2019

Avilene ate two servings of whole wheat English muffin and three servings of grapes for breakfast.  For lunch she ate pork chop, two servings of whole wheat toast, ate beets, sweet potatoes, and applesauce.  At breakfast Atley said, "We can't cough at the table."  Haha!  I said, "Yes we can cough, but cover your cough like this."  (So I did a cough into my elbow.)  Nora said, "We can say aaah.....chooo!!"  Ha!  Avi said, "NO! We say Bless you!!"  Hilarious!  Also, from Avi's chair at the table she can see the wind chime Mom and Dad brought back from Hawaii and she frequently mentions it.  At the Lunch table today Avi said, "My Mom and Dad got the wind chimes from
Ha-why."  Hee hee!  I loved how she said Hawaii and I wasn't about to correct her.  Ha!

Svea and Avilene were here early this morning and arrived before Linnea.  That's rare!  And because of that Svea doesn't see Eric very often and was watching him closely.  I said, "That's Eric."  Avi said, "Like carrot."  What?  She said, "Yes, Eric and carrot, they rhyme."  Haha!  Well.....close.  Avi also said to me; "Hey Gary! Remember the other day when you saw a house fly?!?"  "Yes I remember!!  What a moment in time that was!!"  :)

First picture; The kids liked watching me spray paint numbers on the "stepping stones" yesterday and we painted the big wooden "cookies" too.  The plan is to use them for some outdoor games.  Second picture: Avi was in the legos table with Svea and started making a bunch of noise by shuffling her feet around in the legos.  And it's noisy!  Avi was watching Linnea's reaction to see if she thought it was funny.  :)

Next picture: I couldn't get the picture I wanted, but this one is pretty cool.  Avi was jumping really high and then putting her legs straight out in a "sitting position" so she'd hit the mattress on her bottom.  It was very impressive.  Last picture:  We just finished playing this game for the first time and they all did great!!  (It's much easier to try things like this during this week while Baby Callahan is on vacation.)  Anyhow, it involved taking turns and waiting for your turn to select the top card, then I would read the card and they put their color piece on the right animal.  Nora was red, Atley yellow, and Avi was blue.  Notice Avi posing for the picture.  :)