3/25/2015

Mia ate two servings of breakfast: whole wheat bagel and peaches.  For lunch she had bites of ham, mac-n-cheese, ate corn, and apple bites.  Cooper was a little distressed at lunch because he believed Mia when she said, "Gary give you chocolate milk!"  Silly Mia.  :)

Some of these pictures seem kind of silly, but I'm obviously trying to portray some of the activities that held their attention this morning.  They played with their puppies for 30 - 40 minutes.  It started off when they stacked all of them behind the chair.

They kept running to both sides of the chair saying things like, "Go to sleep puppies, go to sleep puppies..."  "They're sleeping, they're sleeping..."

Then they transferred their pile of puppies and blankets to a big pile on the chair.  One-by-one they would drop them off the edge like you see in the picture and chant things like, "Go down ___, go down ___!"  And they'd make up some nonsense word for them.

Mia read lots of books this morning.  "Where oh where has my little dog gone, where oh where can it be......?"  Mia changed it just slightly; "Where oh where is my pup at?!?!"

I've been working with Mia trying to help her accept the play times when Cooper just wants to do his own thing.  She will come to me and usually say something like; "Cooper won't play with me!!"  (And actually this happens rarely!  But it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just happens.)  So I've been encouraging her to join him and play beside him with similar toys, rather than barge in and take control and be bossy.  This morning she did it perfectly and I was watching - I love it when I "catch" them doing something that we've been working on.  He was "cleaning" and she asked, "Do you need help cleaning?"  Well done Mia!