Morgan ate all of her peaches and seconds on biscuit at breakfast. At lunch she ate all of her baked beans, pineapple and dinner roll and about half of her steamed broccoli.
Morgan turned the book area bench into her "motorcycle" by tipping it onto its back so she could sit on the seat deal. She was making motorcycle sounds and inviting different friends to "ride with me!"
Morgan was so excited when jingle bells came on the CD we were playing today. She started dancing and singing at the top of her lungs. It was really cute.
Gary went outside to take several poopy diapers out to the outside trash. When he left she told me, "Gary is a stink pot!" That isn't a phrase I use and I don't think I have heard Gary use it so I am assuming it might be one from home. It just cracked me up. I wonder if taking poopy diapers might have triggered the stink part of it! : )
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
12/13/11
Morgan ate all of her hashbrowns and seconds on waffles at breakfast. At lunch she ate all of her shrimp, brown rice and peppers and a bite or two of oranges.
After I put the pony tails in Morgan's hair this morning, Gary complimented her on how pretty they looked. The silly girl then went over to the mirror, looked at her self and started rubbing her hair with her hands (as if to mess it up), all the while cracking up in her deep little voice! : ) Gary told her, "No more compliments for you!"
Thomas bumped into her this morning and she started to get sad/angry about it. I asked her if Thomas could give her a hug and she stopped being fussy about it, but when he came closer to her she said, "No he tinky!" Sure enough! He was poopy!
Morgey stubbed her toe this morning on the edge of the changing table then went over to the shelves and round one of the play cleaning rag/napkin/potholder deals, asked me to "fold it" then put it on her foot for a "cold cloth"! That just cracks me up. Within a minute or so it was "all better"!
Morgan went over to her family poster today and pointed at her doggies and tried to tell me their names. It sounds like they are "Chester" and "Cubby". I'm sure I wasn't hearing the second one quite right, but it was close enough that she didn't correct me when I said it back to her.
We have been trying to remember to do our "Morgan (and other kiddos), where are you?" game at least once a day to help them learn to respond when we call their names. All of the children are beginning to stop what they are doing, look at us, raise their hand and say "Here I am!" It is really cute. I will try to video it in the near future. Today, even before we had done if, Morgan says, "Where cold cloth at?" in the same tone of voice that I do the "game", then she answered for it with a "Here I am!" I cracked up!
After I put the pony tails in Morgan's hair this morning, Gary complimented her on how pretty they looked. The silly girl then went over to the mirror, looked at her self and started rubbing her hair with her hands (as if to mess it up), all the while cracking up in her deep little voice! : ) Gary told her, "No more compliments for you!"
Thomas bumped into her this morning and she started to get sad/angry about it. I asked her if Thomas could give her a hug and she stopped being fussy about it, but when he came closer to her she said, "No he tinky!" Sure enough! He was poopy!
Morgey stubbed her toe this morning on the edge of the changing table then went over to the shelves and round one of the play cleaning rag/napkin/potholder deals, asked me to "fold it" then put it on her foot for a "cold cloth"! That just cracks me up. Within a minute or so it was "all better"!
Morgan went over to her family poster today and pointed at her doggies and tried to tell me their names. It sounds like they are "Chester" and "Cubby". I'm sure I wasn't hearing the second one quite right, but it was close enough that she didn't correct me when I said it back to her.
We have been trying to remember to do our "Morgan (and other kiddos), where are you?" game at least once a day to help them learn to respond when we call their names. All of the children are beginning to stop what they are doing, look at us, raise their hand and say "Here I am!" It is really cute. I will try to video it in the near future. Today, even before we had done if, Morgan says, "Where cold cloth at?" in the same tone of voice that I do the "game", then she answered for it with a "Here I am!" I cracked up!
Monday, December 12, 2011
12/12/11
Morgan ate all of her cheerios and about half of her banana at breakfast. At lunch she drank all of her tomato soup and ate most of her grilled cheese sandwich and a couple bites of apple slice.
Morgan continued to dance with the angel bear for about 10 minutes after you left this morning. She was spinning, moving him up and down and all around. It was pretty cute!
Gary and I both just love listening and watching Morgan as she "reads" books and sings. Many times she sings just any song but once in a while she sings a song that is related to the book. That is just adorable. Today she was looking at a book with stars in it and singing "Twinkle, Twinkle". : )
We had another biting incident today. I know it may not seem like it, but we are working hard on this issue. Last Friday we had three different kiddos bite (one of them was Morgan) and three different ones get bit (one also being Morgan)! Ugh! It is frustrating, because they seem to be learning it from each other and so it escalates. We are VERY stern and serious about it with the "biter" and then turn all of our attention and energy to the "victim". It is often a spacial issue (especially with the others) so we are being even more vigilant when more than one kiddo is in an area. With Morgan's it has been more unpredictable. We both Friday's and today's she just walked over and bit Alayna's arm when she wasn't even close to her to begin with. I haven't quite figured out the trigger. Biting is NOT okay regardless of what is going on, and we are working on both ends of the issue, with the focus on "Use your words and tell them what you want!" and "NO BITING PEOPLE! Teeth are for food, not people!" If you have any suggestions, please feel free to let me know.
Morgan played with one of the babies a lot today. She was wrapping her and dumping her out. I have been working on teaching her HOW to bundle wrap the doll rather than just doing it all the time now and I think she is starting to get it a little. She also was holding the naked dolly up over the step and said, "Baby goin' peein'". That just cracked Gary and I up! The other thing she said that was funny while playing with the doll was when she was shaking the doll around a little and looking at its hair. She started laughing and said, "Wild hair!" : )
Morgan continued to dance with the angel bear for about 10 minutes after you left this morning. She was spinning, moving him up and down and all around. It was pretty cute!
Gary and I both just love listening and watching Morgan as she "reads" books and sings. Many times she sings just any song but once in a while she sings a song that is related to the book. That is just adorable. Today she was looking at a book with stars in it and singing "Twinkle, Twinkle". : )
We had another biting incident today. I know it may not seem like it, but we are working hard on this issue. Last Friday we had three different kiddos bite (one of them was Morgan) and three different ones get bit (one also being Morgan)! Ugh! It is frustrating, because they seem to be learning it from each other and so it escalates. We are VERY stern and serious about it with the "biter" and then turn all of our attention and energy to the "victim". It is often a spacial issue (especially with the others) so we are being even more vigilant when more than one kiddo is in an area. With Morgan's it has been more unpredictable. We both Friday's and today's she just walked over and bit Alayna's arm when she wasn't even close to her to begin with. I haven't quite figured out the trigger. Biting is NOT okay regardless of what is going on, and we are working on both ends of the issue, with the focus on "Use your words and tell them what you want!" and "NO BITING PEOPLE! Teeth are for food, not people!" If you have any suggestions, please feel free to let me know.
Morgan played with one of the babies a lot today. She was wrapping her and dumping her out. I have been working on teaching her HOW to bundle wrap the doll rather than just doing it all the time now and I think she is starting to get it a little. She also was holding the naked dolly up over the step and said, "Baby goin' peein'". That just cracked Gary and I up! The other thing she said that was funny while playing with the doll was when she was shaking the doll around a little and looking at its hair. She started laughing and said, "Wild hair!" : )
12/9/11
Morgan ate all of her craisins and oatmeal at breakfast. At lunch she ate all of her applesauce and grilled cheese sandwich and most of her pea and pasta dish with grated cheese on top.
Morgan is so cute when she sings along with the song "Feliz Navidad". We have it on a couple of our holiday CDs and when she sings it, it sounds like "Feely Nah-nee-nod". I always move over by her to listen to her sing it better because it is so cute.
Morgan told one of her friends "Just a second" about two minutes after Gary had told one of the kiddos that about something. It was done almost exactly the way (tone and body language) he had done it. I then asked her, "Are you pretending to be Gary?" She got the cutest little look on her face, pushed out her belly and said, "Ya!" in a deep voice. Cute!
Morgan has found herself a new job. After meal times the last couple days she has gone around helping the kiddos pull their sleeves down after eating and washing. I usually do it, but I was busy feeding the baby Thursday morning so I asked her to help me. She was thrilled and must have decided it was her new job. She does it great, going over to them and asking, "Sweeve down?" and then pulling them down for them. : )
Morgan is so cute when she sings along with the song "Feliz Navidad". We have it on a couple of our holiday CDs and when she sings it, it sounds like "Feely Nah-nee-nod". I always move over by her to listen to her sing it better because it is so cute.
Morgan told one of her friends "Just a second" about two minutes after Gary had told one of the kiddos that about something. It was done almost exactly the way (tone and body language) he had done it. I then asked her, "Are you pretending to be Gary?" She got the cutest little look on her face, pushed out her belly and said, "Ya!" in a deep voice. Cute!
Morgan has found herself a new job. After meal times the last couple days she has gone around helping the kiddos pull their sleeves down after eating and washing. I usually do it, but I was busy feeding the baby Thursday morning so I asked her to help me. She was thrilled and must have decided it was her new job. She does it great, going over to them and asking, "Sweeve down?" and then pulling them down for them. : )
Thursday, December 8, 2011
12/8/11
Morgan ate all of her blueberries and most of her blueberry bread pudding at breakfast. At lunch she ate a bite of her ground turkey burger on a bun and all of her green beans and kiwi.
Nora came for a few hours today and the "big" girls all had to greet
her. It was like she was a little magnet when she first came, as you
can see by this picture.
Kenzie was talking on one of the flip phones for a while today. I heard her saying, "hello football game!" Morgan immediately started to imitate her. You might want to visit with her about it and see if she can give you a heads-up as to what is going to happen this Friday evening! : )
As
you can see in these pictures, the kiddos had fun putting the little
stuffed animals up into the window sill today. Most of them didn't stay
up very well, so it was an ongoing project for about 15 minutes!
Kenzie was talking on one of the flip phones for a while today. I heard her saying, "hello football game!" Morgan immediately started to imitate her. You might want to visit with her about it and see if she can give you a heads-up as to what is going to happen this Friday evening! : )
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
12/7/11
Morgan ate all of her whole wheat jelly toast and thirds on dried mangoes at breakfast. At lunch she ate all of her beef and bean burrito, about half of her tropical fruit and a bite of her steamed broccoli.
Morgan has been so funny with how she will pick up any book, start looking at it and say "I found my favorite". Jadey has been doing it too and I am not sure who started it. Now Kenzie and Emily have picked up on it also! : )
I had to take a picture of Morgan today when she dressed up all by herself in a hard had and work boots. With her tutu on, I thought it just looked priceless!
This morning we looked out the big window and there was a little two point buck strolling up the sidewalk by our front fence. He started to turn up into our driveway toward the big window, but changed his mind and kept on walking up the sidewalk instead. We were to slow to get a picture.
Alayna, Morgan and Kenzie helped me make this "train" and then played on it for the rest of the play time in the block room. Morgan wouldn't give up her seat as the driver, but had fun making chugging and Choo-choo sounds while she played.
Last night I got out the little roadway carpet and put it out in the back room with the little cars. All three of "my kiddos" really had fun driving their cars on it for quite a while. They were making car motor sounds and then saying "beep-beep" when they wanted one of the other kiddos to move out of their way. It was pretty cute!
Morgan has been so funny with how she will pick up any book, start looking at it and say "I found my favorite". Jadey has been doing it too and I am not sure who started it. Now Kenzie and Emily have picked up on it also! : ) I had to take a picture of Morgan today when she dressed up all by herself in a hard had and work boots. With her tutu on, I thought it just looked priceless!
This morning we looked out the big window and there was a little two point buck strolling up the sidewalk by our front fence. He started to turn up into our driveway toward the big window, but changed his mind and kept on walking up the sidewalk instead. We were to slow to get a picture.
Alayna, Morgan and Kenzie helped me make this "train" and then played on it for the rest of the play time in the block room. Morgan wouldn't give up her seat as the driver, but had fun making chugging and Choo-choo sounds while she played.
Last night I got out the little roadway carpet and put it out in the back room with the little cars. All three of "my kiddos" really had fun driving their cars on it for quite a while. They were making car motor sounds and then saying "beep-beep" when they wanted one of the other kiddos to move out of their way. It was pretty cute!
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
12/6/11
Morgan ate all of her prunes and seconds on cinnamon roll at breakfast. At lunch she ate all of her melon, bites of scrambled eggs and about half of her waffles and hashbrowns. She may have eaten more, but Jadey kind of gagged and vomited, which ruined her appetite, I think. She had been eating right along until then. When that happened she looked at Jadey's plate and said, "I'n done!" I didn't blame her!
We hadn't gotten out the work benches until this morning and Morgan was thrilled! She literally spent over 40 minutes playing with and around it. She came over to see what Jadey was doing on hers a couple times, but went right back over to work at hers.
Morgan brought me one of the dolls today and the pair of jeans that were supposed to be on him. She held them up and said, "Help fix it. He fall out!" I thought that was a great way to state it! : ) Also with the doll she was carrying it around, feeding it with a bottle, singing to it and covering it. I love the way she lays it down, covers it and sings, "Nah-Night Baby!" It is so sweet!
Today Emily found one of the play rag/napkin/potholder deals and was pretending that she had an owie and it was her "cold cloth". Morgan thought that was a wonderful idea and had to find one and imitate the action!
In all the times I have taken Morgan potty she hasn't actually went yet, so I am backing off somewhat until she shows more readiness, interest and success.
We hadn't gotten out the work benches until this morning and Morgan was thrilled! She literally spent over 40 minutes playing with and around it. She came over to see what Jadey was doing on hers a couple times, but went right back over to work at hers.
Morgan brought me one of the dolls today and the pair of jeans that were supposed to be on him. She held them up and said, "Help fix it. He fall out!" I thought that was a great way to state it! : ) Also with the doll she was carrying it around, feeding it with a bottle, singing to it and covering it. I love the way she lays it down, covers it and sings, "Nah-Night Baby!" It is so sweet!
Today Emily found one of the play rag/napkin/potholder deals and was pretending that she had an owie and it was her "cold cloth". Morgan thought that was a wonderful idea and had to find one and imitate the action!
In all the times I have taken Morgan potty she hasn't actually went yet, so I am backing off somewhat until she shows more readiness, interest and success.
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