Atley's Journal

Atley ate two servings of French toast and ate dried plums for breakfast.  For lunch she ate pulled pork, half of whole wheat toast, ate peas, and two bites of strawberries/mangoes.  Lauralea was being silly at Lunch and pretending to cry; she's actually pretty good at it.  They were all laughing, Avi was laughing hard, and Svea said, "Can you cry again!?!"  :)  Also at Lunch Atley told Svea; "I'm sorry I can't go to your Birthday Svea."  Today's theme was "Water."  And we did lots of activities and experiments with water; at least 6.  Here are some examples;  First picture is "Capillary Action" (Haha) and it's an experiment that takes time so the kids are watching the changes through the day.  Those are folded paper towels connecting the bottles together.  Second picture: "Surface Tension." The alcohol  pushes  the water away.  (It's rubbing alcohol in case someone thinks I'm dipping into my stash. I will no...

Atley ate half of whole wheat toast and ate mangoes for breakfast.  For lunch she ate a large serving of ground beef with marinara sauce on (two servings) of whole wheat spaghetti noodles, ate cauliflower, and three servings of fruit salad.   This first picture is left over from yesterday afternoon and the big girls were throwing snow into the air and saying, "It's snowing! It's snowing!!"  The snow was cold and powdery and you can see some above Avi's head. Next picture: Avi and Atley in the Preschool Room reading some books.  Sometimes they like to look at books by themselves and some times together like you see in the picture.  It's fun to listen to them talk about what they are looking at or listen to them read.  Following picture;  Setting up the "Avalanche Game" to have some fun.    Last picture;  Atley put this doll blanket over her head and crawled back and forth across the room.  Sometimes (my opinion) she does things like ...

Atley ate blueberry bagel and two servings of grapes for breakfast.  For lunch she ate shrimp, three servings of brown rice, ate stir fry vegetables, and two servings of raspberries.  So Atley has been starting a new trend everytime we serve rice and raspberries in the same meal.  She soaks her rice in the raspberry juice and now Nora is doing it too.  Haha.  Here's a picture of a second serving of the juice and I'm about to put a big serving of rice in there.  :) This next picture is left over from yesterday afternoon when everyone was rocking to Macarena.  Or at least they were trying to follow Avi's lead.  Miles, on the other hand, was just trying to stay upright!!  Haha.  Good work Miles.  Next picture:  Everyone looks a little solemn here - and Atley seems to be praying!!  Haha. Next picture:  The kids had fun working with the play doh this morning.  Nora and Svea worked with it way longer than the other two...

Atley ate some bran cereal and some raisins for breakfast.  For lunch she ate chicken, two servings of whole wheat pita bread, ate cucumbers, no avocado, and ate pears.  Nora was certain that Atley's piece of pita bread was bigger than her's.  Nora said, "Why does Atley get a bigger piece?"  Before I could answer Atley said, "Because I have a bigger mouth!"  Haha.  Then Atley opened her mouth, leaned across the table and said, "Do you want to measure them?!?"  Hahah.  What a goof.  First picture - This actually goes with the last picture and I posted them out of order so I'm gonna leave it that way.  :)  Atley was creating things with her pieces of cardboard and this was her "barn."  She made some animals for the inside of her barn too.   Next picture;  Atley wasn't really trying to stand on her head although it certainly looks like it in the picture.  Haha.  Avilene was trying to show me she could "kick lik...

Atley ate French toast and ate two servings of strawberries for breakfast.  For lunch she ate bites of Whole 30 Chili with meat, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, and lots of spices.  She ate whole wheat dinner roll and tropical fruit.    Wednesday morning "Science with Lauralea" before Breakfast.  :)  Two experiments this morning: Christmas Lava Lamps and Making Slime.  First picture:  Making the Lamps and the Ingredients for the Lava Lamps were Water, Food Coloring, Vegetable Oil, and Alka-Seltzer. The kids got a kick out of this.  You know what's gonna happen when the Alka-Seltzer hits the water.  In the second picture you can see some of the results of that. So this next picture is adding and stirring the ingredients for Slime:  Water, Elmers Glue, Red (We chose red for Christmas) Food Coloring, tiny beads or glitter, and Liquid Starch.  (We're sending some home with the children and it's on their cubby.  PLEASE NOTE ...

Atley ate whole wheat English muffin and ate grapes for breakfast.  For lunch she ate three servings of pork roast, ate whole wheat toast, beets, and ate applesauce.   First picture:  We cut up two paper Christmas plates and made them our "puzzles."  Nora and Atley were playing with them this morning.  They don't fit together as good as a "real" puzzle.  Haha.  Second picture: Avi made an airplane and Atley asked Avi to make one for her.  But we encouraged Atley to make her own and she very successful on her first two attempts.   Next picture:  Avi was cutting tape for everyone else and Atley was assisting her.  That's Svea's hand at the bottom of the picture waiting for the tape she ordered. (I do have more colors than that, but we are using these colors through the Christmas Holiday Season.) Last picture: Nora and Atley were playing on the mattress and pretending to sleep.  Atley was much more eager to "wake up" and keep play...

Atley ate whole wheat Chex cereal and ate peaches for breakfast.  For lunch she ate ground beef, two servings of whole wheat sandwich thins, no avocado, no tomatoes, ate two servings of mandarin oranges. Atley and Nora were jabbering at the Lunch table and they were looking around the room talking about everything they could "see."  Soon it was about what they could see out the window.  And it kept getting more exaggerated every time.  Finally Atley said, "I can see everything in the whole world; even in Egypt."  LOL    REMINDER:  CLOSURE DATES:   Little Treasures will be closed December 24 & 25...  Will be closed New Years Day and will open again on January 11.  This first picture is left over from Friday afternoon when Atley and Nora were building with the legos. As you can see the girls worked hard and made pretty elaborate pieces.  The surprising part is they allowed Miles to hang around!!  He obviously wasn't...

Atley ate oatmeal and dried cranberries for breakfast.  For lunch she ate tilapia, whole wheat elbow noodles, 1 green bean, and ate applesauce.  Lunch conversation today:  Atley said, "My Mom and Dad are gonna teach me how to cook."  I guess Nora may have been thinking farther down the road; "Well my Mom and Dad are gonna teach me how to drive!"  LOL.   First picture:  This was after waving bye to Daddy Brad at the window.  Guess what they're talking about here!?!  Brad wasn't driving his pickup this morning and Atley is explaining (in detail) about Brad's pickup!  I heard something about "an oil leak."  I love how Nora is focused on listening.  Good work Nora; that's being an awesome friend.  I know you're not super interested in Brad's mechanical issues. Next picture;  I rarely have them "line-up" for a picture, but I wasn't having any luck getting them together any other way.  I wanted you to see three in matc...

Atley ate two servings of blueberry bagel and ate peaches for breakfast.  For lunch she ate half of hamburger & sausage pizza with the meats, peppers, olives, pineapple, and tomato sauce.  We serve the whole wheat pizza crust on the side and she ate that, and she ate pineapple on the side too.    "Science with Lauralea" has become quite the hit with the 4 oldest kids!!  That's all they talk about every Thursday morning (and frequently during the week) before we begin.  Lauralea had to run get something before we started and Nora said, "Don't take too long!"  Haha.  Last picture:  We did 3 experiments this morning and the theme was "Chemical Reactions" with a Christmas bent.  This first one was just for them to observe.  "Bobbing Jingle Bells" using a soft drink that was carbonated.  We probably put a dozen "Christmas" jingle bells in the container in the middle of the table and when the liquid hit they all rose to the top, ...

Atley ate whole wheat toast and ate grapes for breakfast.  For lunch she ate pork roast, whole wheat tortillas, carrot/potato vegetable mix, and three large servings of fruit salad.    First picture;  We haven't posted a picture of the kids waving for a few weeks and that's long enough!!  See here; if you're the last one to drop off you can be the popular Parent!!  Haha.  All 6 kids waving!! Next picture:  These four girls were sitting on the couch listening to Alexa tell them a "spooky story" at Avi's request.  I love how Nora is leaning back into Avi snuggling and Avi has her arm around Nora.  Avi asked if I wanted a picture of them snuggling.  :)  Atley is stretched out beside them barely on the couch with her rear-end kind of hanging off.  Haha.  They were all listening intently to the story. Last two pictures: Atley simply acting like Atley.  Haha.  She cracks me up.  She does things to amuse other...

Atley ate two servings of whole wheat English muffin and ate dried plums for breakfast.  For lunch she ate chicken, brown rice, stir fry vegetables, and two servings of mandarin oranges.   I was in the kitchen putting breakfast on some plates and I heard Atley say to Nora, "Hey Nora, I remember when I was 3 years old and we used to say BOO to Gary in the kitchen."  So they started acting like they were 3 again and yelling "boo" to me.  They were peeking in the kitchen door that opens into the hallway.   First picture is left over from yesterday afternoon when Atley was helping Cal with his corn.  It's hard to feed a baby (Cal doesn't really fit that description anymore) without opening your own mouth as you put food in the baby's mouth.  I was giggling at Nora because she had her mouth WIDE open feeding her brother.   Next picture:  The kids were making Christmas Trees; drawing them, putting on glue, and then tiny beads. I'd drawn trees for ...

Atley ate Cheerios and half of banana serving for breakfast.  For lunch she ate ground beef, two servings of whole wheat pita bread, no avocado, ate olives, and two servings of strawberries.  When Atley asked for more pita bread at lunch she asked, "And could you warm it up and put on butter?"  Haha.  Yup, I can do that.  I don't allow "special orders," but that was totally reasonable.  :)  So I toasted it and Nora wanted her's that way and then Cal ordered more "toast."  Haha. This first picture is left over from Friday afternoon.  I already showed Emily one picture, but I like this one better.  Atley is feeding Miles his cottage cheese and Avilene is feeding Callahan.  Miles has his mouth open wide, but still keeping an eye on Cal.  Haha.  So cute.  I know the three families of the three older girls already know this, but I like reminders and I hope you do too;  The big girls  LOVE  to be helpers!! ...

Atley ate two servings of brown rice and ate raisins for breakfast.  For lunch she ate two servings of salmon, ate whole wheat dinner roll, riced cauliflower, and ate mangoes.  Yesterday we (Lauralea doing the videoing) videoed the kids doing 3 separate Christmas songs.  This weekend I'm planning on trying to Post these on an "Unlisted You Tube" video.  No one can see it except those you give the link to.  Does anyone have any objections to this or know of any reason I shouldn't use that format?  No names are given in the video; it's just 3 songs. Lauralea was in the kitchen and she did a big loud sneeze.  Atley was playing by the Doll House and she said, "Hey that scared me and I bumped my chin."  Haha.  It obviously made her jump. First picture;  These two were doing Mr Potato Heads and wanting me to take of picture of the guys they created.  Lauralea had just came up behind me and was hugging me and acting silly and I love how it...