8/13/2014

Mia ate half of her breakfast: toast and peaches.  For lunch she ate most of her ham, a large serving of mac-n-cheese, a bite of salad, and a large serving of corn.  Mia kept telling us she tried a bite of lettuce salad and Nora and Riley both told her, "Good job Mia!"

We went out to the bird feeder and refilled it again.  The kids are studying the sack of bird feed and the bird feeder is leaning against the pole.  We refill it every other day.

Mia and Cooper played together several times this morning and in this picture they were having fun with the food toys.

This picture is pretty self-explanatory!  They were both pretending to sleep, but I never did catch them sleeping at the same time!!  :)  (Except I think Nora may have her eyes closed in the picture.)

At art time I gave each of the kids a choice for painting; hands or paint brush.  They all chose "brush" and that lasted for 75% of the project and they all finished up using their hands.  Riley was the first one to ask me, "Can I use my hands?"  Nora had been experimenting with pushing down hard with the brush and making different designs with it.  (And Mia was experimenting with how it all tasted!!)

Yesterday Riley, Cooper, and Mia (Nora had just left) spotted a bug on the climber and Mia had her nose about three inches from it.  Cooper and Riley were laughing and squealing so hard.  (With quite a bit of nervousness mixed in.)  When Mia realized how much they liked what she was doing she cranked it up a notch or two.  One of the times Mia touched the bug with her nose.  The other two were roaring with laughter.  As soon as I mentioned how BRAVE Mia was being that totally changed Riley's approach - she started getting brave too and then she'd jump back and giggle and squeal some more.  It was sooo cute!  And she did it over and over.