Avi - 11/12/2020

Avilene ate two servings of whole wheat English muffin and two servings of mandarin oranges for breakfast.  For lunch she ate bites of ground beef, a large serving of whole wheat elbow noodles covered with a large serving of applesauce, and she ate her peas.   

I mentioned to Momma Molly about Avi talking about numbers; specifically adding numbers together.  She already gets this concept and it's pretty impressive.  She is figuring this out on her own.  Yesterday it was; "Hey Gary, 3 plus 3 is 6."  "2 plus 2 is 4."  Maybe even for impressive for me is the fact that when I asked her, "How do you know that?"  She was able to explain to me how she figured it out.  So awesome. So this morning "Little Miss Brainiac" says, "Gary, 2 + 2 + 2 = 6."  Whoa, she's a numbers whiz.  Gonna be doing multiplication by the time she gets in the first grade!  :)  

This first picture is left over from yesterday and the three girls were doing Art, but it was their conversation that had my attention.  Nora noticed we had the stew cooking in an "Insta- pot."  She was the one who started the conversation and soon they were all saying they each had an "INSTANT POT" at home.  Haha.  Avi said, "I think I have one."  Nora said, "I have one."  Atley said, "I have one."  :)

I think I mentioned in yesterday's Blog that Lauralea didn't work because of Veteran's Day so she did "Science with Lauralea" yesterday.  The experiments they did involved straws and I told you about one in Svea's Blog yesterday.  This first one the girls were trying to suck up a dime against the bottom of the straw and hold it enough to get it off the table.  Not easy.  Then we put some water on it and that helped a bit. Avi was the only one able to do it without water.  Standing up made it easier.  

More pictures from yesterday: Avi was showing off for Miles, but she was also encouraging him to do what she was doing.  Super super cute.  Miles was getting a big kick out of watching Avi's antics.  Following picture: All the kids in a picture again!  Wow this has been happening regularly.  This is a new fishing game and the big girls were showing the game to the little people.  Avi said she has this game at home and that's probably the answer to Nora's question; "Avi, why do you always win?"  :)  Last picture:  This is one of my favorite moments in a child's day; when I see a child getting enjoyment simply by watching others having fun.  Even when they are not directly involved, but simply being an observer.  In my opinion there is something very special about that!!