1/21/2015

Mia ate three servings of toast with Honey and ate mixed berries for breakfast.  For lunch she ate ham, crackers, half of bean & bacon soup, half of strawberries.  Mia (with her mouth Jammed Full of food) told Cooper at the breakfast table, "Don't talk with your mouth full!  I can't hear you with your mouth full!!"  Ha ha ha!  I put some Honey on a teaspoon and ate it and told the kids I was just like Pooh Bear.  That triggered some memory for Cooper - "That was scary in there!"  He said.  (Pointing out the door!)  Where?  "Disneyland!"  :)

Mia and Cooper were loading their buses full of legos and hauling them around.  (Cooper was calling them his "dump trucks.")  In this picture Mia is sitting on the play table and building a tower.

I haven't mentioned this too much lately, but Mia has been a real good helper for me and she LOVES helping when I ask her.  And she does a good job.  This picture is somewhat "staged," but I wanted you to see one thing she did for me today.  I was sitting in the chair (background of picture) feeding Baby Sophie her bottle and Elliott was thirsty.  Mia followed my directions perfectly.  She's totally capable of doing "age-appropriate" jobs and she feels proud of what she can do.  (Sometimes she'll try to take it farther than I've asked her too do, but she listens when I set the boundary.)

I was reading stories to the kids and one book was about being grumpy; "What are you so grumpy about?"  I asked them if they were ever grumpy and Mia said, "I be grumpy when some people beat me up!!"  Silly girl!!  Who would do that?  She said, "Nobody and I'm not grumpy anymore."  She cracks me up with some of the things she comes up with!

Mia and Cooper were going "camping" again.  Mia said, "You; my friend!  Are you coming with me? Uhhh, are you coming with me!?!"  (Now that sounded threatening to me!!  Ha!)  So then he asked her to cover him with the blanket and she did.  She said, "Night night Sweetie Pie!!  Now don't say 'Cover Me Up' again!!"  :)