Avi - 1/20/2017

Avilene ate oatmeal and dried cranberries for breakfast.  For lunch she had a few bites of: ground beef, whole wheat elbow noodles, peas, and applesauce.

Avi had a great morning and did lots of playing.  I'm sure glad she only had the one day that she wasn't feeling well!!  She sat on my lap for 1 story at Story Time, colored for 1 minute, and hauled lots of toys to Baby Nora.  I turned on the Kid's music and Avi and Bubba immediately started spinning in circles.  So cute.

Speaking of hauling toys to Baby Nora, Avi loved it when I put Baby Nora in the saucer.  (Nora kind of likes it too!  Look at that grin!)  Avi took more toys to her and also took a few away from Nora! Hudson saw Avi take a little book from Nora and he took it out of Avi's hand and gave it back to Nora.  In this first picture I like how Avi has her foot in the saucer.  It looks like she wants to crawl inside with the Baby.  And in the 2nd picture Avi was trying to get inside the saucer after Baby Nora was taking a nap!

I laid one of the Big Bears on top of the igloo and Avi is wondering what that's about.  A few minutes later Sophie asked Reid to pile the two bears on top of each other and she called that her "bunkbed." Then she was telling Hudson and Avilene to come get into bed!  Ha!  "Come on you guys!!  Avi, Bubba, come here!!"  She said,  "It's time for bed!!"

Avi - 1/19/2017

Avilene ate raisin english muffin and blueberries for breakfast.  For lunch she ate ham, bites of flat bread, taste of green bean, and bite of strawberries.  Avi had a great morning and seemed much more like herself than yesterday.  When Daddy Andy was leaving this morning Hudson was saying, "Bye Andy, bye Andy..." over and over for a minute or two after Andy had left.  Also, first thing this morning, Lauralea said, "Bubba" and Avi mimicked her.  "Bubba" and she did it again, "Bubba."

I let Reid bring some of his toys with him as long as he's willing to let the little ones play too.  He was letting Avilene try to spin the propellors on this particular "Air Ship" while Bubba looks on.   ("NOT airplane," but "Air Ship" according to Reid!  Ha!)

Four consecutive days with a picture Avi reading a book!  Ok, maybe not, but this one is WAY cuter.  She had been reading and then started being silly.  We were having Story Time on the couch and she was reading the books I was depositing on the floor.  And of course she had to peek up because I was laughing!  Am I funny Gary!?!  Very funny and really cute.  :)  When I was done taking the pictures Reid was like; "Ok, now can we get back to reading books!?!"

 

Avi was having a pretty animated conversation with someone on the phone!!  Isn't this cute?

Avi - 1/18/2017

Avilene ate jelly toast and mangoes for breakfast.  I don't think she's feeling very well today.  There is a lot of crud going around the Daycare - primarily runny noses and coughing.  She was needing a nap immediately after breakfast and she slept until right before lunch.  She ate a bite of bean, chicken, rice burrito, bite or two of sweet potatoes, and ate her tropical fruit for Lunch.  Avi played for awhile after Lunch, but she was getting tired and fussy again and she's taking another nap now.

After Momma Molly left this morning I asked Avi, "You wanna wave at Momma?"  She started waving immediately and went running for the window.  She knows the routine!  :)  I already told Molly this, but yesterday Avi was coming over to me with her hands raised high, so I reached out to pick her up and she took off running in the opposite direction.  It was so funny and cute!  Little tease! However, this morning she was the only one here for maybe 10 minutes and she was very snuggly!! I knew she probably didn't feel the best, but I still enjoyed the snuggles!!  :)

I did manage to take some pictures of Avi's morning when she wasn't taking a nap!!  The first one is a reading picture - that makes 3 days in a row!  I like how Baby Nora is trying to see what's going on as well!  In the 2nd picture Avi had the energy for some bouncing play on the mattress with Sophie and Hudson.  Those two were sitting on the edge of the mattress bouncing up and down and Sophie kept trying to get Avi to sit beside her.  The last picture has a cute story behind it:  Hudson is in the igloo and Sophie kept going behind the igloo and counting; "1 2 3 4 5 6 "....running around and peeking inside and saying, "I find you!!"  (That's what the animals say in a little "hide-n-seek book we have.)  Avilene was watching the process and grinning all over.  Infant and Toddler "Hide-n-Seek" is quite entertaining!!  Reid was sitting in the chair observing it all and said to Sophie, "No cheating!!"  Ha!

 

Avi - 1/17/2017

Avilene ate cinnamon roll and several bites of canned prunes for Breakfast.  For lunch she ate everything: scrambled eggs, waffle, hash browns, and melon.  (We tried a "melorange" similar to cantaloupe and super sweet.  All the kids liked it.)

Avilene was so cute when she arrived this morning; charging around, grinning, spinning several different times (fast and never falling), and even letting me give her a few quick loves.  Later she came up behind where I was standing, stuck her head through my legs (by my knees), and wrapped her arms around my legs. It was so precious!  Hey, I'll take any kind of loves that Avi gives!!  :)

Another picture of Avilene reading books!  She is obviously starting to spend more time with the books.  You might notice that she's looking at this book sideways.  I always say that her age gets way more mileage out of the books; Sideways, upside-down, right side up - it's always a new book!

Here are three different pictures from Avi's morning at Little Treasures.  She was pestering Sophie at Sophie's table (with food set up) so I sat up the other yellow bench just like Sophie had her's.  And the picture shows what Avi wanted to do; climb!!  :)  I took the next picture when Avi was watching the fish!  She's obviously seen the fish many times, but this morning she really SAW them and watched them for 2 or 3 minutes.  And the last picture I took of Avilene was when I got Baby Nora up from her morning nap.  Avilene was so excited to see her.  It was very cute.  "Alright! Someone smaller than me and I can steal their toys!!"

Avi - 1/13/2017

Avilene had bites of brown rice and ate raisins for breakfast.  She ate some of everything for lunch: meat balls, flat bread, carrots, and apricots.

Hudson and Avi were playing with the jingle bells and shakers.  First they emptied the shelf and then they were shaking those toys and making lots of racket!!  Sometimes they simply empty the shelves; just because the shelves need to be empty!!  :)

This was so cute watching Avi getting drinks.  :)  She was very intentional in putting the cup at the faucet, then taking a drink, fill the cup, take a drink.  Over and over.  She started grinning when she saw me watching her.  Little cutie!!  :)

 

Avi sat on my lap for one story - almost - during Story Time.  But then she got her own book and laid on the floor in front of the couch.  Isn't this cute?!  I Love it.  She did lots of running back-n-forth across the room of course and she also piled toys in front of Baby Nora.

Avi - 1/12/2017

Avilene ate cinnamon toast and half of apple bites for breakfast.  For lunch she ate baked chicken, bites of dinner roll, ate hash browns, and cherries.

When Daddy Andy brought Avi this morning Hudson started saying, "Avi Andy, Avi Andy, Avi Andy."  Then he said it once more after Andy left; "Avi Andy."

I took this first picture when Avi was watching Lauralea bounce Reid on her knee.  I agree Avi; that looked quite hilarious.  Lauralea does this little ditty - "walk walk, trot trot, gallopy gallopy...."  -  while bouncing the kids.  Reid looks a bit large bouncing on Lauralea's knee!!  Avi obviously enjoyed watching it!  I love it when kids enjoy watching other kids having fun.

Not too much to say about this next picture except I wanted to show you that she really does stop occasionally and catch her breath!!  Actually she was trying to bounce up and down on these blocks! So she really wasn't relaxing!!  In the 3rd picture Hudson was going down the slide over and over and Avi and Sophie were keeping a close eye on him!

I took this last picture to give you an idea what I do sometimes at Art with the little ones when they are close to participating.  Hudson colors at Art, but he didn't really get the idea what we were doing here so he just watched too.  I call it "golf ball" art.  Paper and paint in the pan and, and a golf ball rolling around on it leaves lots of very cool tracks on the paper.  Sophie is patiently waiting for her turn.  Avi and Hudson were very focused on watching and and watched for over 10 minutes before they got bored.

Avi - 1/11/2017

Avilene ate whole wheat bagel and peaches for breakfast.  For lunch she ate most of everything: ham, whole wheat elbow noodles, corn, and apple bites.

Avi came in and was immediately busy, busy busy!!  She played with the flip phones, books, and a new favorite in this toy set; The doll bottles.  I took this picture when Avilene was showing Lauralea one of the bottles.

Before she left for work Lauralea was reading a book to Hudson.  It happened to be a little book that Avi had been looking at earlier.  Avi went running over to the chair holding out her hands and Lauralea was all excited; "Oh, do you want to read too!?!"  No!  I just want my book!!  Ha!  That made me laugh!

At first Avilene was perched on the top of this yellow bench (turned over like a table in picture).  I was wondering how she would get down, but she handled it like a pro.  She turned over on her tummy and simply slid backwards until her feet touched the floor.  In this picture Sophie is trying to get a dress-up vest on Avi's arm.  (Sophie soon gave up!  Ha!)  I like how one of Hudson's butt cheeks is teetering on the edge of the bench!!

I got out the 2 tunnels and hooked them together for the kids to crawl through.  Avi was watching, laughing, and peering in both ends.  But she waited until everyone else was bored with it and then she got in by herself.  Reid was playing with her and had her giggling when I took this picture.  She is a fun-loving little sweetie and a bit of a maniac!!  Later, she was grabbing the side of the legos table, looking at me to see if I was watching, and shaking it as hard as she could!!  And very proud of herself!  :)