10/26/12

Morgan ate all of her craisins and oatmeal at breakfast.

Morgan, Kenzie, Joslyn, and Emily were all pretending that the books were money.  They were all setting around the picnic table in the big room and trading books, saying "pay, pay, pay".

Morgan and Kenzie were dressing up in the rain boots, camp hats, and shirts.  Kenzie then informed Morgan that she was Dora and Morgan was Boots.  Morgan liked the idea and played along with it.

Later they were playing house and putting the babies to bed in the box bedrooms.  I asked them if they wanted me to put on so soft music to help their babies sleep better and both of them just beamed.  They kept telling us and the other kiddos, "shhhhh! Our babies are sleeping.

The two raining songs came on the cd and Morgan asked if I could skip them, "since it's not raining out."

When they were playing in the back rooms with the duplos, Morgan and Kenzie were saying they were "doing surgery".  To me it looked like basic duplo building.  Just goes to show my lack of creativity!  ; ) After they were done with 'surgery', the exact same set of blocks turned into a sail boat.  Now that I could see a little.  

10/25/12

Morgan ate several bites of her blueberry bread pudding and a bite of blueberries at breakfast.  At lunch she ate seconds on turkey burger and green beans, and all of her kiwis.  

Morgan was playing with the stuffed turkey a lot this morning.  She wrapped its tail around the body and said, it was cold and needed to "get warm".  She then asked Gary "do turkeys fly?"  She is such a good little thinker.  

All of the kiddos were watching the big flakes of snow out the window.  They were pretty big for a while.  I don't know who was most interested in them, the kiddos or Matt, who has never lived outside of Louisiana. ; )

Morgan loved it when we had a very short circle time, talking about loving each other and being good friends.  I asked them how they could show each other that they loved them.  Morgan immediately tried to do the 'I love you' sign with her fingers.  When I asked if anyone else had any ideas how we could show each other they were our friends or we loved them, Morgan wrapped her arms around her own shoulders in a hug.  It was great.  This is, again, a great example of her great processing skills.  

One thing Morgan has been doing almost every morning is to bring me several of the stuffed animals (dinosaurs, frogs, ducks...) and asking me to sing songs about them.  I always start with the actual basic songs, but as she wants more and more I have to get creative.  : )

Kenzie and Morgan spent about 20 minutes building with Legos in the back room when we went back.  Kenzie kept telling Morgan to "put the other wheel on".  There are no round ones, so I guess they are square wheels.  After Morgan had built it pretty tall, Kenzie kept asking "shall we break it in pieces?"  They played great with them together.   Morgan also set up a bunch of the duplo people in a circle and said they were playing 'ring around the Rosie's.  

10/24/12

Morgan ate all of her jelly toast and all but a couple of her peaches at breakfast.  At lunch Morgan ate everything -- meat and bean burrito, tropical fruit and sweet potatoes.  

Morgan asked first Emily, then Joslyn, then finally Kenzie if they each wanted to "do laundry" with her when they came.  No one was interested at first, but Kenzie changed her mind within a minute.  They soon had all of the soft toys and many hard toys in the box to wash.  I vetoed the hard toys and had them help me take them out.  They left the stuff in there for a while then started "folding laundry" when they determined it was done.

 Morgan had her baby wrapped up very well and was looking all over for a spoon to feed her with.  She had everyone helping her look for spoons.  Riley was the one who found one for her.  

Morgan started to melt down when she wanted the sunglasses that Joslyn was using and she wasn't willing to give them up.  I went over to be with her while she was still holding on to them, gently helped her let go then, just sat with here right there on the floor after asking Joslyn to move away from Morgan and give her some space.  She started to melt, but pulled herself together after just a minute or so.  Way to go, Morgie!

10/23/12

Morgan ate seconds on cinnamon roll and all of her prunes at breakfast.  At lunch she ate seconds on waffles with syrup and all of her scrambled eggs, hash browns and cantaloup.  

Morgan was walking around with sunglasses on her wrist and saying "goggles for sale, glasses for sale."  It was very cute.  Se then would 'sell' a pair to a child here and there.  Emily started mimicking her, but didn't have any glasses.  : )

Morgan had a minor melt-down over someone else picking up the dinosaur she likes best.  She grabbed the other end of the dino and would NOT let go without help which didn't make her happy.  

Kenzie and Morgan were pretending that they were "getting ready for the baseball game".  Kenzie was getting a "base hat" and "base shirt" for Morgan to wear then got some for herself to wear also.  They then started giving each other a "stamp" with the button from their shirt buttons.  

Morgan asked for the music on and she then announced each of the songs that was  coming on next, a couple even before one note of music came on.  She was especially excited when the "Lolli-pop" song came on.  They call it my song because we have had kiddos call me "Lolli-Pop".

10/22/12

Morgan ate all of her fruit and most of her Kix cereal at breakfast.  A lunch she ate seconds on steamed broccoli and all of her ham sandwich and mandarin oranges.

Morgan was very glad to see both Kenzie and Emily this morning when they came.  Emily was immediately happy to see Morgan also.  Kenzie really didn't want much to do with anyone for the first half hour, then wanted to play with with Morgan also.  All four of the big kiddos (morgan, joslyn, kenzie and emily) actually played together quite a bit.

They were all very engaged in dramatic play -- swimming with the goggles on, putting their sunglasses and hat on and getting into the box to "go" somewhere.

At breakfast she was very social.  She asked Kenzie what she did at the farm all on her own.  Later in the meal, she was asking each of the kids at the table, "what's your last name?"  Not only that, but she knew if they said the right thing or not.  When Emily said "Emily Nicole" Morgan said "no, Fritch! Silly!"

Morgan, Kenzie and Emily played in the igloo for about 15 minutes then they started pushing and pulling the huge bear around.  Sometimes one of them tried to ride while the other ones pulled him, but that obviously didn't work very well.  Morgan started trying to lay and push on Kenzie after a while and Kenzie did such a great job of telling her she didn't like it and then just moving away from her when Morgan didn't listen.

Kenzie announced that she was making a train when we went to the back room.  Morgan immediately left the duplos she was building with and went over to help Kenzie with her train.  Kenzie told her thank you each time handed her a block to use or helped her put one on.  It was great!