Avi - 10/13/2020

Avilene ate two servings of waffle and ate grapes for breakfast.  For lunch she ate chicken, whole wheat tortillas, corn, and three servings of baked cinnamon apples.   

The first thing Avilene did this morning was hug and play with Cal and Miles.  She really loves the babies and it's so evident when she doesn't see them for a couple of days.  They are the first ones she wants to interact with.  First picture: She's hugging Miles and she said, "Hey Gary! I'm giving Miles love and he's not even screaming."  Hahaha!  

Next picture;  Avi wanted me to take a picture as soon as she got on the soccer shoes, soccer shirt, and I put the headband over her hat.  :)  Following picture:  She was trying to get some soccer shoes on Callahan, but not having much luck.    

Next picture:  Avi, Nora, and Cal in the cozy corner.  Avi was looking at this little board book and she recognized how small it is.  "Hey Gary! This book only has 5 pages."  Yup, it's for the littlest ones.  Last picture:  This was a new book we read during story time.  It has a great story about these frogs that fight all day, every day.  At the end of the book I asked, "What can we learn from this book?"  Avi said, "To swim."  LOL!!  That cracked me up.  I'll ask the same question next time and see if she remembers.  In defense of Avi, she was very distracted because Cal was sitting beside her and she was pestering him much more than he was pestering her.  :)

Avi - 10/09/2020

Avilene ate oatmeal and a large serving of baked cinnamon apples.  For lunch she ate a large serving of hamburger stew with meat, carrots, green beans, potatoes, and tomatoes.  She ate two servings of whole wheat dinner roll and ate apricots.   

First picture:  I'm not sure what was going on here, but it was very "secretive."  Haha.  Nora was whispering something in Avi's ear.  They both had on their sunglasses and had their flashlights too.  Second picture:  Avi said, "Hey look Gary!  I touched the top!!"  Wow, you sure did!  You're growing too fast Avilene!!  (Hold that pose while I grab the camera!!  Ha!)

Next picture:  Avi is giving Miles a "pep talk" and trying to get him to do something.  Can you guess?  Look at the blocks for a hint.  Avi knows the rules and she's following the rules; You cannot help the babies get onto the chair, couch, mattress, blue balance beam, yellow bench at the window, etc etc...until they can do it themselves. My reasoning is this; if they can get up by themselves they can figure out how to get down.  So she's put the blocks in front of the chair and is trying to coax him to use them. However Miles is actually able to get in the chair by himself now!!  :)  I've said this before, but Avi is wonderful with the babies.  She loves them, listens to my words when I ask her to do something different with the babies, and they love and and respond to her!!  Last picture:  Look at the detail in Avi's paper.  More and more detailed all the time.  I love it.  

Avi - 10/08/2020

Avilene ate a bite of French toast and a bite of dried plums for breakfast.  For lunch she ate two servings of pulled pork, two servings of whole wheat noodles, ate peas, and ate strawberries.  

In this first picture from yesterday afternoon Avilene was playing catch with Callahan.  He bent over to pick up the ball, but got totally distracted by some dirt in the grass.  Haha.  Second picture:  Look who Avi is playing with again this morning.  She loves Cal and he loves her because she plays with him and pays attention to him.  Adorable.  He was loving pushing the chair around and around.  

Next picture:  Avi cutting out some more continuous pieces of the paper.  And she has them piled on her cubby.  You're welcome.  Haha.  (And she's doing lots more of them while I'm doing these Blogs!)  Next picture:  I love your Art work Avilene!!  Here's what she told me about her picture;  The person on the left is "Daddy playing frisbee with me."  The person on the right? "That's me."  "And that's a picture on my shirt."  Nice work Avilene.

Last picture:  How cute is this!?!?  Avilene was bouncing and jumping up and down to entertain Miles and it was working.  :)  Look at his big smile and Avi has an absolutely adorable smile on her face as well.  I think this is the best picture ever of Avi.  

Avi - 10/07/2020

Avilene ate whole wheat toast and mangoes for breakfast.  For lunch: So I forgot to make the whole wheat spaghetti noodles before lunch - dang it - so we'll have those noodles tomorrow and we had tomorrow's bread today.  And it was whole wheat bread and I toasted it.  Haha.  They all (almost all) like toast so it's not a big deal.  As long as the Food Monitor (or Lauralea) doesn't find out I served the same thing twice in the same day and scold me!!  Haha.  Avi ate three servings of ground beef with marinara sauce, ate whole wheat toast, no cauliflower, and ate fruit salad. 

Here's a note leftover from yesterday afternoon outside.  Avilene observed the parachute on the patio bench and she said, "Lauralea didn't fold this one up very good this time!!"  LOL!!  Full disclosure Avi; I folded (wadded it up) it this time.  Lauralea did it once and Avi was SO impressed when she saw it.  She said, "WOW! Look at the parachute."  Yes, Lauralea just can't help it Avi; it has to be done the "right" way!!  I always tease Lauralea AFTER she's done whenever she helps me clean up.  "Look how neatly those trucks are all lined up!!"  :)

Avi spent a large portion of her morning doing art work.  I love how hard the Preschool kids are working at their art and the stories they tell about what they're drawing.  In the second picture - Atley brought this out to the Daycare Room to show me and said, "Gary, look at my airplane."  Very cool.  Nice work with your scissors Atley.  Things got interesting in the third picture;  As soon as Avi and Nora saw Atley's airplane they wanted her to make them one too!!  Atley said, "All my friends want me to build an airplane!!"  This age group can ALWAYS find something to argue about.  If you can look at the third picture and can guess what they're arguing about you win the grand prize for October.  (The prize has not yet been determined, but I'm sure it will be grand!!)  The problem here;  The duplication of the airplane apparently could only be made in ONE color: PINK.  Now in the art cabinet directly beside Atley there are multiple choices of color.  Avi was adamant; "You HAVE to build me an airplane in the color I ask you to."  Nope, that's not happening.  :)  As you already know we work more on social skills and problem solving than anything else.  :)  Last picture:  Avi did some cool work with her scissors too!!  Long snake out of one piece of paper.  I didn't teach her how to do this; did you?  She just kept cutting and cutting.

Avi - 10/06/2020

Just an FYI for everyone; I had a doctor appointment this morning and Lauralea covered for me.  So the Blogs will be much shorter and fewer pictures.  (Unless I have pictures left over from yesterday afternoon.)  I primarily went to the doctor today for a second opinion and reassurance that what I'm doing is on the right track.  And I got the reassurance I was looking for.  I do have another appointment on Thursday and Lauralea will cover for me again - thanks so much Lauralea!!  

Avilene ate blueberry bagel and two servings of grapes for breakfast.  I didn't ask Lauralea to keep notes while I was gone, but she told me something cute about Lunch.  The table kids, Avilene, Atley, Nora, and Svea put their rice in the raspberry juice and everyone told me they liked the "pink rice."  Haha.  

I got a couple pictures of Avi before I left.  In the first picture she's checking out the new cars I found at Costco this past weekend.  They are really cool little cars and they zoom forward after you pull them backward and then let them go.  Second picture:  Sometime between these two pictures Avi said she needed her jacket because she was cold.  Nora, pushing the chair opposite of Avi, also has her hoodie up, but I think it was for a different reason that had nothing to do with the cold.  (Something about making a fashion statement. Haha.)  Look at Cal's face;  he was loving this 'chair ride' so much!!

Avi - 10/02/2020

Avilene ate cream of wheat cereal and most of dried plums for breakfast.  For lunch she ate pork roast, two servings of whole wheat toast, ate beets, and applesauce.   

This first picture is left over from yesterday afternoon.  This is a daily activity when we go outside.  Look for bugs!!  And the kids are crazy for bugs.  For whatever reason the end of the garage where they are looking has always been a "hot spot" for the bugs.  The second picture is also left over from yesterday afternoon.  Avi found this spot to sit and I asked her what she was doing;  "I'm going to be a statue for my Mom."  Haha.  And she sat there for at least 20 until Callahan's Mom came.  Her skeleton costume cracked me up.  And she wore that thing ALL day long.

Atley was standing on the igloo shining one of the flashlights around and Avilene was chasing the beam wherever Atley shined it.  It reminded me of kittens and how they will chase the light beam.  They (especially Atley) were laughing so hard.  Next picture;  The three big girls were playing with the Doll Houses; including the newest one.  Following picture:  They also spent lots of time doing different kinds of Art that's available in this exchange.  Last picture:  I took this picture because Avi doesn't often just lay, but Svea asked her to lay here so Avi managed several minutes before she ran off to another activity.  

Avi - 10/01/2020

Avilene ate half of waffle and three servings of fruit salad for breakfast.  For lunch she ate ground turkey, bites of whole wheat tortillas, ate sweet potatoes, and three servings of cherries.  

During Story Time we read a book with a "unicycle" in it.  Several times I've told them what this type of cycle is called.  So I asked, "Does any remember what this cycle is called?"  I totally loved Avi's four syllable answer!  Phonetically it sounded like this;  "tri-sick-lee-er."  It was so cute.  Good try Avi.

This first picture is left over from yesterday afternoon.  These two were up watching a diaper change and Avi happened to look in the mirror.  There are certain places in the room where the mirror distorts the image and that's what Avi saw!  She said, "Hey Nora!!  Look in that mirror!!"  Look at Nora's focus.  

Pictures from Avi's morning:  So Avi came in the skeleton suit and eating, going potty, whatever....it was all a challenge!!  :)  But she kept wearing it regardless!!  It's pretty funny because I can't see her face and I read the children's face a lot!!  So here she is at breakfast.  Then jumping off the igloo; the suit obviously didn't slow her down a bit.   She got on the floor beside Miles and kind of in his face.  He just grinned and kept right on playing with his legos.  Haha.  He's focused and not about to be alarmed by a silly skeleton on the loose!!  Later, she put him on her lap and you can see that did not bother him too much either.  Last picture: And then on to Callahan and it didn't bother him either.