11/19/2010

Morgan ate seconds on malt-o-meal and strawberries at breakfast.  At lunch she ate most of her beef barley stew and all of her biscuit and dried mango bits.

Morgan started fussing and following me around after about 10 minutes, so I asked her if she wanted to go "night-night" and she started waving.  She took about a 45 minute nap before breakfast.  She did pretty well after that until not long before lunch, when she started getting tired again.

Morgan was having so much fun today wrestling with the terry bears and playing on the soft climber and mattress with Keenan, Jadey and Connor.  They were all squealing and having a blast.  Keenan is very good with the little ones -- interacts with them without being overbearing most of the time.

Morgan was also having fun experimenting with the food stuff again today.  She always has to see what will go inside of what, how they sound when they bang together and so forth.  I love this picture and how focused she is one what she is doing.

Morgan not only enjoys having fun herself, but she really notices and enjoys it when others are having fun.  It doesn't matter if it is a child that is right next to her, or all the way across the room.  When they are laughing and having fun, Morgan almost always is watching with either a smile on her face or she is chuckling herself.  That is such a great quality for a child to have (and it isn't very common). We have found that those kiddos are usually the ones that also are more empathetic and nurturing, by nature.

11/18/2010

Morgan ate all of her cinnamon roll and apple slices at breakfast.  At lunch she was extremely tired, but did manage to eat about half on one tuna on cracker "sandwich", who whole crackers and all of her sweet potatoes. She also ate a couple bites of her cantaloupe.

I probably should have just put her down for a morning nap today, but she actually did pretty well until about 10:45, so...  From then on she was OK if I was able to cuddle her, but had a couple melt-downs when I couldn't.  I would imagine she will take a pretty long afternoon nap.  She also had three small poopy diapers this morning that could have been contributing to the discomfort and fussiness.  Usually she just does one big one in the morning and one in the afternoon here.

When she first came in she crawled over to the toy shelves and started unloading them left and right.  When I asked her what she was doing, she turned around with such a cute look and chuckled!

Morgan managed to do what I have been dreading today before I could get to her.  I had told you that she was not regularly crawling up onto the little picnic table top.  Well, today I was in the middle of changing one of the littler babies and Gary was cleaning up BK when she did it.  She toppled off of it before I could get to her.  She did kind of hit the book rack a little, but I think it mainly scared her.  She calmed right down when I cuddled her.  I hate it when things like that happen before I can deter or intervene!  UGH!!!

Morgan cuddled with me while I read LOTS of stories today.  I had the kiddos bring me whatever board books from the book rack they wanted to read and I think we ended up reading all but four of them.  Morgan stayed for basically the whole thing.  She did get down briefly, but decided that was not what she wanted and got right back up.

11/17/2010

Morgan ate a bite of her grapes and seconds on cinnamon toast at breakfast.  At lunch she ate a bite of her pineapple and all of her ham bits, crescent roll and squash.

Morgan stayed up again today (third day in a row with no morning nap here).  She did great until right before lunch when she was starting to get both tired and hungry (not a good combo).  : )

You know how she was really enjoying the peek-a-boo blanket play at drop-off this morning?  Well, later Jadey got one of the doll blankets and was putting over her own head and pulling it off when I said, "Where'd Jadey go?"  Morgan was watching this exchange and chuckling every time she did it!  :)

Morgan and Connor have been having such a good time playing together in the igloo.  One of them will go inside and the other will peek in the opening at them.  Both of them were really laughing about it this morning.  Usually Connor is the one inside and Morgan is doing the peeking.  It is really cute.

Morgan has figured out how to climb up the little picnic table in the big room (even all the way to sitting on the table top if we don't catch and stop her before she gets to that point).  She hasn't figured out how to get off without help, though.  That is kind of the same thing as when she would get up onto one of the steps and think she was stuck.

11/16/2010

Morgan ate all of her pears and thirds on whole wheat bagel with strawberry cream cheese at breakfast.  At lunch she ate thirds on scrambled eggs and all of her waffles, hashbrowns and fresh orange bits.

Morgan was very tired acting even before 8:00 so I changed her and lay her down for a pre-breakfast nap.  She didn't go to sleep though, so I got her back up and she actually did pretty good.  She had more fussy times than yesterday, but was pretty contented when Gary or I would cuddle her.  She had to small (firmer-type) bowel movements after breakfast, so that may have been why she didn't go to sleep when I lay her down.

At breakfast she had a pretty good tantrum first thing.  I am not sure what wasn't quite right to suit her, but we just turned her around so that the other kiddos didn't give her attention and she quite pretty quickly and then ate and drank like everything was fine after all.  It was probably just from being more tired.  I noticed at both breakfast and lunch that she is holding and tipping her cup up much better on her own now!  Hooray!  That is always nice when they get that down.  : )

At story time today, Cypress and Morgan were sitting by each other on the couch.  When he climbed up beside her he said, "I will help her listen!"  He did such a nice job with her.  At the beginning she was kind of grabbing him and bugging him, but he didn't get upset or frustrated with her at all.  He just gently grabbed her hand and held it so she would stop, looking at her and smiling very sweetly.  : )  Morgan stayed seated by him listening for about half of story time.

Morgan and moving more and more toward walk and away from crawling, I have noticed.  I don't know how many times she would start to crawl then stop and stand up then take as many steps as she could until she fell.  Sometimes she would stand right up and do it again and others just crawl the rest of the way to where she was headed.

11/15/2010

Morgan ate all of her cheerios and thirds on banana at breakfast.  At lunch she ate a bite of her steamed cauliflower, all of her tropical fruit and seconds on cheese pizza.

Morgan was saying, "Hi!" or "Uhloh" to most of the kiddos and parents as they came this morning.  She was also just saying it to herself or anyone that would listen many times after everyone got here.  Some times she would have a toy up to her ear (once in a while it was even a phone!), but as often it was just her hand.  : )  I think that is so cute!

She didn't take a morning nap today and did fine -- only a couple very brief fussy times that her binky helped her through.

Wow!  She was taking LOTS of steps throughout the day today.  Several times it was between 6-8.  I noticed that today she was taking some steps, then would start to lose her balance and stop, sometimes even squat down like she was going to sit down, then stand back up and take off again!  That is great!

She found one of the doll bottles to day and was really examining it.  After looking it all over, she stuck it in her mouth to try it.  She was slightly disappointed/frustrated when it didn't produce anything of substance.  :)

She was also really examining the two biggest teddy bears that are out.  They are both as big or bigger than she is.  She was kind of sitting on one of them's lap for a while and another time she had one in front of her and was hugging it and laying her head on it.  I tried to get a picture, but she was done by the time I and the camera were ready!  UGH!!!  It was extremely cute!