8/1/2014

Mia ate malt-o-meal cereal and raisins for breakfast.  For lunch she ate ground beef, elbow noodles topped with shredded cheese, maybe a bite of lettuce salad, and a bite of mixed fruit.

All the kids were watching the birds outside.  There have been lots of them - basically a feeding frenzy in the morning! We've also been hearing and seeing a pair of 'morning doves' for the past month and they were at the feeder today too.

Speaking of birds, Lauralea has a bird sound on her phone whenever my daughter texts her and this morning Mia said, "I heard a bird Gary, I heard a bird!"  Then later it was the same thing; "I heard bird again!"  :)

While I was setting up lunch Riley and Nora were looking at catalogs and Cooper and Mia were being crazy.  So I got a picture of them going head-first off the chair.  Earlier, they'd been playing with the dump trucks again and flying up and down the sidewalk.  Mia was saying, "Coop! We better go!!  Come on Cooper!!"  Cooper was running around chanting, "Mia Mia Mia."  :)

During the past 15 years of doing Child Care full-time I've had several kids (as they get older) ask me where I work.  "Where do you work Gary?"  This morning Cooper asked, "Where'd Lauralea go?"  I told him she went to work and then I asked the group where I work.  And Nora said, "At home!"  And Mia actually verbalized, "Daycare!"  I was impressed!