11/21/12

Morgan ate all of her toast and thirds on dried mangos at breakfast.  At lunch she ate all of her beef and bean burrito and her tropical fruit and a bite of her sweet potatoes.

Morgan was thrilled that Colt was here today.  They started off all jumping onto the mattress from the balance beam, which lead to wresting with the bear, with lead to wrestling with each other, which lead to chaos and moving the to the other side of the room.

They started doing some doctor play, at Colt's leading and where giving all of the doll check-ups.  It was great that he got them all engaged in it.  Literally wherever Colt was the fur big girls were glued to him, unless I specifically made them not play together, which made whoever it was VERY unhappy.

We got out the magna  doodles and they were very engaged with them!  Morgan, especially, was working hard to draw actual pictures rather than just scribbling.  She was very proud of her picture when she was done!  

Morgan attached Kenzie twice today, one leaving actual scratch marks on her face below her eye.  Neither of them were provoked, although another one was.  Both were over them competing for Colt's attention during play.

Morgan was intrigued with the 'Hand, hand, fingers, thumb' book and wanted to know what each page said, over and over!  If you haven't seen it, it is about monkeys drumming.

Just so you know, Morgan hasn't gone to sleep yet and it is 1:15, even with MANY reminders!

Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope you have a wonderful long weekend.  We are looking forward to ours.

11/20/12

Morgan ate seconds on cinnamon roll and all of her prunes at breakfast.   At lunch Morgan ate all of her waffles, hash browns and cantaloup.  She also the a couple bites of scrambled eggs.  

Morgan had three stethoscopes around her neck at once.  She did a nice job of sharing one with Kenzie when she wanted one.  Of course, it wasn't the one that Kenzie wanted, but at wasn't Morgan's issue.  : )

Kenzie and Morgan were struggling first thing this morning, so I decided to just keep them apart until our small group time.  Morgan and Emily played together throughout our large group time.  They read some books together on that side. 

When they switched to the other side of the big room, they were 'hiding' and going from one side of the room to the other side while holding hands.  Morgan was actully kind of dragging her around most of the time.  She kept telling her, "You don't have to be 'ascared'!  I gotcha!"

When a song about bananas came on the iPod Morgan went racing over to Gary and said, "There's your song."  Pretty soon the 'Do your Ears Hang Low' song came on and she again raced over to him and announced, "There's your other song, Gary!"  She was very excited about it!  

Right before we were ready to switch rooms Morgan and Kenzie asked to play with the giant bear together, so I let them.  Kenzie was in the front and Morgan behind her, while sitting on him.  Kenzie had ahold of his ears and reared back like he was bucking.  When she did, the back of her head smacked Morgan right in the nose.  It hurt bad and Kenzie felt bad.  She told her "I'm sorry!" Instantly, but also gave her a hug when she  was holding a cold cloth on it, which I thought was great!  

When we went to the back room, Morgan sat down in front of Riley and rolled her a car.  Riley was thrilled and rolled it back to her, chuckling.  They did it back and forth several times until Riley lost interest.  I thought that was so sweet of Morgan (and it was even to one of the mobile babies).  : )

11/19/12

Morgan ate all of her Kix and about half of her mixed fruit at breakfast.  At lunch Morgan ate seconds on steamed broccoli and all of her mandarin oranges and her ham sandwich.  

Morgan started a game where they were pretending that they had on "costumes" complete with glasses (without anything on actually).  It then transitioned to looking around for things in the room that "scared" her.  The others didn't pick on that part of it, thankfully.

Morgan and Kenzie were being a little testy so I asked them if they wanted to play nicely together or play apart.  Morgan got all excited and said, "Do you wanna play apart, Kenzie?"  Kenzie nodded.  Morgan took off to play, then turned to me and asked, "what is apart?"  It cracked me up!  

The played together for a little while longer, but I did end up having them play "apart".  Morgan ended up playing with Joslyn at the kitchen set, in the box and with the tambourines.  

Christina, Matt and their friend, Mike make it in last night.  Christina is Gary's daughter.  They are in the process of moving up here from Louisiana.  Their apartment won't be available until mid December, so they are staying with us until then.  Morgan acted like they hadn't been gone since they had been up to visit in October.  It was cute!

Morgan really doesn't like it when the babies or younger kiddos (other than Kenzie, Emily or Joslyn sometimes) "bug" her.  Most of the time that means they are just coming close to her or have touched her.   When I tell her they are little and she can just move away from them or go in the box to get away from them, she doesn't like it and often a battle follows because she insists on grabbing them, hitting themor pushing them away.   

Morgan kept talking about "they is puking up!"  When I asked her what was puking, she said it was "all of the toys"!  I am not sure what the thought process was, but as soon as one of the toys was "puking up"' it got put up on the chair (maybe so they won't contaminate the kiddos or the their toys?).

Morgan cracked us up today when she put one of the tambourines on her head, one on each arm and held on in her hands in front of her face.  I looked so cute!