4/24/2015

Mia ate two servings of oatmeal and ate canned prunes for breakfast.  She ate everything at lunch: meat loaf, pita bread, carrots, and apricots.  Cooper and Mia were very engaged in conversation at breakfast.  I tried to figure out what it was about, but Mia just informed me that "We're just talking!!" Ha ha!  It was something about, "I win I win, I get a trophy!"  "So what are you racing?"  I asked.  Mia said, "Spoon!" and Cooper said, "Tractor!"  :)

Then at the lunch table Mia said, "I love you Gary!  And Cooper responded with, "I love you Gary!" Mia said, "WE love you!  You're my best Gary!  And so does Elliott and Sophie!"  It was so sweet!  And people try to tell me this job doesn't have benefits!!  :)  (Apparently those people are blind!)

Elliott had actually been packing blocks (four or five) over for Mia and Cooper (handing them off to Mia) as they were building a block tower.  Mia is standing on the arm of the chair in the picture below and Elliott is handing blocks up to her.  Elliott then moved on to the legos table, but Mia was yelling for him to come help them some more!  "Come and help us Elliott!"  :)  So Cooper went over and started trying to drag him back!!

Elliott grabbed Mia's blanket and sprinted off before laying on it!  :)  Cooper was trying to help get him off Mia's blanket (following Mia's instructions from the chair!).  I asked Mia, "What do you think of Elliott laying on your blanket?"  Mia answered, "Not terrific!"  Ha!

As most of you already know if you've been around children very much (especially this age of children) they're not adept at masking their expressions.  I looked at Mia's face and said, "Ok, what'd you do!?"  Her immediate response; "Nothing!"  And she immediately followed that up by saying, "I took out my pony so you can put in two ponies!"  That has become the daily ritual!  :)