11/2/12

Morgan ate about half of her malt-o-meal and raisins at breakfast.  At lunch she ate about half of her mixed fruit and all of her spaghetti and her salad with ranch.  

Yesterday afternoon Morgan and Kenzie has so much fun playing hide and seek, with Coral's help.  Coral helped them find several really good places to hide, burying them with the stuffed animals or the dress up suits.  

Morgan and Kenzie were pretending the box was their bedrooms again today.  They asked me to make them pillows and cover them up.  They thought it was funny when I used the dress up clothes to make pillows with.  

She and Kenzie were playing with the stuffed animals today and chose one small panda to be their baby.  They did this whole elaborate dramatic play with it.  First of all they each held one of pandas hand and helped him "walk" to the car to go to the doctor.  It just continued from there until they were in a storm with him getting all wet in the rain.  

Morgan has been pushing the envelope this morning with a melt down at 10:00. It's probably the culmination of a week of minimal sleep and extra activities.  After the following break and extra close supervision, including breaking into our small groups she did much better the rest of the morning.  

11/1/12

Morgan ate seconds on English muffins and all of her blueberries.  I forgot to take the blueberries out of the freezer until this morning (I usually do it the night before) and Morgan told us "they are frozen!"   Morgan ate seconds on saltines, and all of her canned chicken on saltines, canned cherries and corn.  

Morgan and Emily asked to go to the back room to play before breakfast.  They stayed back playing with the cars and then looking at books for at least 15 minutes.  

Kenzie started playing with Morgan  almost as soon as she got here.  They played for about five minutes before the was conflict and Morgan moved to the other side.  Within a couple minutes, Morgan asked to go play with "my friend, Kenzie" again.  She went over to her with hands on hips and said, "are you gonna be nice to me now?"  Kenzie put her hands on her hips also and told her "ya, will you be nice to me too?"  They just crack me up!  Talk about very similar temperaments in so many ways!  

One of Morgan and Kenzie's favorite place to hang out and play is in the corner behind the igloo.  They often take a bunch of the stuffed animals back there with them to cuddle and play with.  

Kenzie coughed pretty loudly and Morgan looked at her and said, "Wow!  Are you sick?"  Kenzie laughed and told her no.  

Morgan was pretending to talk on the phone and told the person on the other end, "oh no!  I forgot my wallet!"  When I asked her who she was talking to, she told me it was someone "at the games".  

Gary and I have decided that we have a group of five mini teenagers.  They were all sitting around with phones, speaking cell phone language (watching movies on the phone, turn it on speaker, gotta take this call, I gettin' a text...).  It just cracks me up!  

10/31/12

Morgan ate all of her peaches and biscuit at breakfast.  At lunch Morgan ate second on dinner roll and baked beans and all of her pineapple and steamed broccoli.  

Morgan and I sat on the couch and read stories for about the first 10 minutes  until my attention was needed elsewhere.  Morgan loved the one on one time.  

Morgan asked about everyone, "what are you going to be for Halloween?"  All of the verbal ones told her something, and as far as I know they were what they are actually going to be.  

I hope I don't jinx her, but Morgan has really been using her words well, listening to our and others' words, cooperating and keeping control of her emotions so far this week.  I was applauding her and talking to her about it this morning and she told me it was because she was a big girl.  Maybe being three has flipped some magical switch for her.  : )

Kenzie put her mouth on Morgan's foot and Morgan yelled, "Kenzie bit me!"  Kenzie immediately said, "But I didn't cuz it didn't leave marks!"  Tricky, but also pretty logical.  It didn't convince Morgan, though!  

All of the kiddos really enjoyed making fall wreaths.  It was great because the only thing that needed glue was the bow.  They had great conversations about what the different items were (apples, acorns, leaves...).  

Kenzie and Morgan were very engaged playing in the big block building Gary had helped his kiddos make yesterday after we left.  They were putting all of the duplo and plastic animals into it and saying it was their "zoo".  

Morgan went to sleep almost immediately after lunch today.  That hasn't happened for weeks!

Morgan and Kenzie were dressed up in the African lion and mountain lion suits today and stayed in them for at least 20 minutes.  What I found very amusing about the whole thing was here they were all dressed in Cat suits and they were cheering "Go Griz, Go!" It just hit my funny bone!

10/30/12

Morgan ate most of her waffles and hash browns at breakfast.  At lunch she ate seconds on fresh red peppers and all of her shrimp, brown rice and oranges.  

As soon as Morgan was done eating breakfast this morning, Kenzie went over to that side of the big room to join her.  They started playing with the food stuff and were very engaged in cutting the Velcro vegetables and fruits apart.   They got pretty rowdy with them in the loud metal sink and soon the whole room was cracking up, including Riley.  Aaron especially liked it.  

Morgan said she was heading to the baseball game and Kenzie told her, "Okay, I'll meet you there."  Morgan then told Kenzie, "OK, I'll see you when you get there!"  Great imaginative dialogue!  

Morgan and Kenzie were racing around the side of the room with the stuffed animals saying, "baby bear, baby bear, where'd you go?"  They were looking for the little black bear.  

Morgan, Joslyn and Kenzie were taking turns being the crying baby.  The baby would flop down on the mattress and 'cry' then the other two would pretend to 'fix' them and the help them up for to next baby to take over. 

Morgan stood with one of the big blocks under each foot and was scooting around the room on them.  She called them her "sledding shoes" and "icing skates".

10/29/12

Morgan ate all of her Cheerios and a bite of her banana at breakfast.  At lunch she at thirds on tomato soup and all of her apple slices and grilled cheese sandwich.

Morgan was excited to explore all of the new toy exchange stuff.  She started out playing with some of the dress-ups, wearing the waist packs and back packs, fishing with the poles, and looking through the picture binoculars.  She would look at it then have one of her friends look to see if they knew what it was.  

She also was very excited about the stuffed animals.  She immediately started gathering ones she liked and stuffing them down behind the climber "to save".  The ones she chose were a deer and two squirrels.  

At the end of breakfast, Morgan asked (kind of to herself) I wonder what puzzles are out!  As soon as she was done washing she asked if she could do puzzles.  She then found one that should have been pulled from last time that Missy had missed!  She always knows when it is something from last time!

We have been encouraging the kiddos to ask one another for help to try to build more of a sense of community and spirit of helpfulness.  I have noticed both Morgan and Kenzie asking others for help without prompting at times.  

Morgan and Kenzie were walking around the big room peaking into and around different things and saying "not in here".  When I asked what they were looking for, they said "a phone!"