12/17/2013

Mia ate whole wheat bagel and half of her dried apricots for breakfast.  For lunch she ate half of her chicken, and most of her elbow noodles topped with shredded cheese, most of her peas, and most of her applesauce.

Micala took this picture yesterday after nap time.  (Well, Riley was still sleeping, but these guys were awake!)  I'd been snuggling Mia and Nora and Cooper wanted up too.  Look at Nora's reaction.  Cooper climbs up and does some loving "forehead bumps" with me.

This is a picture of Mia doing some cleaning.  The yellow bottle is her 'squirt bottle' and then she vigorously scrubs with the cloth she's holding.  It's very cute and sometimes they'll clean the table, toys, window sill, walls, blocks, basically everything!  :)  Nora started the cleaning routine this morning.

Here's an incident that made Lauralea and I roar with laughter first thing this morning.  Cooper was inside the "Cooper Cave" we'd made with building blocks.  And the easiest way for him to get out was give the block "wall" a big shove.  It kind of landed on Nora and a little bit on Mia.  Mia wasn't going to cry until Nora started howling and that made Nora even more mad!  Nora stopped in the middle of her cry and yelled at Mia; "NO!!  MY OWIE!!"  :)

We read lots of special Christmas books this morning; I think I counted 14.  (Even Cooper sat for the entire reading.)  And Mia was still not satisfied! "More books, more books!"  Love it!!

Nora and Mia were sitting in the chair talking on their phones and reading books.  Mia was holding her phone up to Nora's ear and saying,  "Riley-Cooper!"  That's how Mia frequently says it; it's their hyphenated name!  :)