Avi - 4/23/2020

Avilene ate two servings of whole wheat English muffin and three servings of mandarin oranges for breakfast.  For lunch she ate ground beef, whole wheat elbow noodles, peas, and two servings of applesauce.  At lunch Atley said, "We can stomp our feet because Lauralea isn't here!!"  Haha.  Since Lauralea has been working from home (in the basement) we've had to be a bit quieter in the Preschool area during the numerous "Zoom Meetings!!"  She had to go to Plains this morning.

The breakfast conversation this morning started out with "beds" because Atley got a new bed and she was sharing the good news.  And then it went in this direction:  At some point Avi felt the need to enlighten Nora and said, "You get one when you are grown up!"  Nora said, "I'm already growing up!!"  Avi said, "No you're not."  Nora said, "Mom said I was growing big!!"  Avi said, "My Mom said she didn't want me to grow anymore!"  Atley said, "My Mom and Dad said I need to quit growing too!!"  Haha.

This first picture is left over from yesterday afternoon when Atley, Avi, and Svea were building with our outside blocks.  I was getting a kick out of watching Avilene build because she was doing it all "one-handed!"  Notice her left hand is shut tightly because she's not about to release her treasures of several dead bugs.  Haha.  She said, "I need to save this to show Mom!!"  I said, "Well that will not be easy!"  Yup, about 10 minutes later Atley stumbled backwards right over the top of it all.

Picture: Snuggling with Gary and telling all about her head hurting.  She said, "I can do a backwards somersault now!!  Do you want to see it!?!"  Well of course.  Then she remembered that's how she hurt her head at home.  Haha.  So she went to plan B.  "Hey Gary, do you want to watch me do a headstand without saying owie!?!?"  Hahaha.  Sure.  She said, "I've never tried it with my head hurting."  Well, give it a shot!!  She cracks me up!  I love this picture.