11/7/2014

Mia ate brown rice and two servings of raisins for breakfast.  For lunch she ate meat loaf, bites of pita bread, most of carrots, and ate her apricots.  At the breakfast table I said "Happy Birthday" to the Birthday Girl and Cooper started singing it!!  So Mia joined in singing with him!  :)  She said, "Good job Cooper!!"  Very cute.

I love this picture of Cooper and Mia!  I had combed their hair and was getting them ready for "picture time," and they were being so silly and giggly!!  It was so stinking cute!  We'd just finished doing Art and I was going to take a picture of their art work with the new "Flag" duct tape pieces they'd stuck on their paper.  I started singing "Oh say can you see.."  And they sang the next line ("By the dawn's early light") in unison without my help.  It was actually very cool!  Also during Art Time I said "Batman" when talking about the "Spiderman" duct tape!  Cooper looked at me like I'd lost my mind and immediately said, "Spiderman!"  LOL!!  And again Mia said, "Good job Cooper!!"  LOL (AGAIN!!)

Whenever someone sneezes Cooper or Mia (or both) will usually ask, "Are you ok?"  (Which always makes me laugh.)  This morning Cooper sneezed and immediately said, "I'm ok!!"  Just in case someone was wondering!!  Ha!  :)

This is just an FYI thing to let you know what I've been working on with Mia - "Listening and Answering" (So I know she's at least hearing or responding to me).  It's becoming a habit for her to say, "Ok Gary" when I am instructing her and wanting her to follow directions.  And I like that habit! She's been doing very well with it!  I'm also working hard at having her listen to Cooper as well; especially when he wants her to stop an activity that is irritating him.  For example, she does the animal play (a LOT), which is fine, but it's hard for her to understand and accept the fact that it's not always fun for the other person.  Or that they may not want to do it ALL the time!!  :)