Avi - 9/10/2019

Avilene ate whole wheat English muffin and most of her dried plums for breakfast.  For lunch she ate chicken with stir fry vegetables, most of brown rice, and a couple bites of oranges.

I took this first picture during yesterday's snack and the second picture at lunch today.  It's been fun for me to make changes in my Program as these two girls continue to get older.  Sometimes these changes are small and go unmentioned, but they are happening frequently.  These two pictures represent one of the changes.  The Food Program requires Preschools to serve meals "Family Style."  So I've begun to do that by putting the bowls of food on the table and letting them serve themselves while I monitor and teach as we go.  I keep telling myself; "messes don't matter!  messes don't matter!"  :)  And they're learning to say, "Pass me the ....."

We played outside this morning while Callahan took his morning nap.  Next picture - four kids wearing their crash helmets on the airplane!!  Haha!  Wearing their hard hats.

Random Observations:
Atley and Avi were playing with the legos trucks and they both named their truck.  Avi's truck was named; "Waterfall Bridge Tool Hat" and Atley named her truck; "Tulip."
Avi came from the bathroom and proudly proclaimed: "Gary!! I used 3 squares!!"  LOL!! Awesome! I'm proud of you!!  (We had a teaching moment after she plugged the toilet last week with an obscene amount of tissue!!)
She flashed the "I love you" sign at me and said, "I did the BIGGEST I love you sign ever!!"

Last Picture: Masks from "Little Red Riding Hood."  Avi wearing the "woodsman" mask and Atley wearing the "grandmother" mask.  They were chanting in unison; "Hey Gary, Hey Gary, Look at us!! Look at us!!" I love the little photo-bomber in the background!!  :)