Atley's Journal

Atley ate most of whole grain chex cereal and half of peaches for breakfast.  For lunch she ate half of ground beef, bites of whole wheat hamburger, no tomatoes, bite of avocados, and bites of oranges. We did a toy, book, and puzzle exchange this weekend and Linnea is back after a week on the Oregon coast.  So lots of good things happening this morning.  (Except Hudson is not here to enjoy Linnea and he adores her!! Last week I showed him a picture of Linnea on the beach and he said, "That's my favorite baby!")  This first picture of Atley working on the alphabet puzzle is pretty cool!!  She hasn't seen this puzzle for 16 weeks and she nailed it!  Well done Atley!!  I think this is one of the more difficult puzzles because it has lots of pieces!!  (26 - Ha!) I love these next two pictures of Atley playing with the dress-up clothes!  Nora was watching intently and intently studying everything Atley was doing!  I was laughing so ha...

Atley ate several bites of breakfast; oatmeal and dried cranberries.  For lunch she ate most of tilapia, a large serving of whole wheat elbow noodles, nibble of green beans, and a large serving of applesauce.  (They love the applesauce smothering their noodles!) When the kids are at the window waving "bye" to Momma or Daddy there is always something to distract them!!  We live on a bus route, two schools close by, so there are lots of kids, cars, and usually a few dogs as well.  As Momma Megan stopped to wave this morning Atley spotted a dog; "Ohhh, puppy!!"  And of course I'm always in the background saying, "Wave at Momma, Wave at Momma, wave at Momma!!"  Haha!  I primarily took this first picture of Atley because this has been her "signature look" lately; one pant leg pulled up close to her knee!!  :) Well we have 3 kids (Avi, Atley, Svea) here today and 3 (Linnea, Hudson, Nora) are absent.  Avi and Atley had lots of fun this morning...

Atley ate bites of whole wheat bagel and ate peaches for breakfast.  For lunch she ate sausage and hamburger pizza, on whole wheat pizza crust with tomato sauce, mushrooms, olives, pineapple, and peppers.  She also ate a serving of pineapple on the side. We were reading a Dr. Seuss book this morning and this particular book has the author's picture in the back on the inside cover.  Atley looked at that and said, "Daddy!!"  Haha!!  So maybe it's the white beard that fooled her, but personally I see no resemblance!!  :) Hudson, Atley, and Nora were waving bye at the window this morning to Nora's Daddy Ryan.  Hudson put a plate in front of his face and said, "This will scare him!"  Haha!  Then Atley had to run get a plate and do the same thing of course.  :) Atley is becoming the resident "bug person."  She picks up every and all bugs!  And she goes to the window many times in the morning and looks for bugs crawling on the w...

Atley ate whole wheat toast and most of grapes for breakfast.  For lunch she ate pork chop, whole grain tortilla, ate carrots, no potatoes, most of sweet potatoes, and she ate half of fruit salad.  At the lunch table Hudson scooted over by Atley, put his arm around her, and said to Avi (who sits across the table), "Take a picture." It was so cute and funny. Shortly  before  I took these first two pictures Nora was literally screaming mad at Atley for something that had to do with the little play house.  Atley responded so nonchalantly that Nora quickly got over it and within moments she was laughing hysterically at Atley's antics!!  And the Caregiver was just standing there observing it all and scratching his head like; "what the heck was that about!!??" Haha! It's fun and interesting to watch how Atley handles Nora - especially when Nora is so intense about something - it really helps Nora to just calm down and let it go. Well speaking of laughing ...

Atley ate about half of breakfast: whole wheat english muffin and dried plums.  For lunch she ate several bites of chicken, a large serving of brown rice, several bites of stir fry vegetables, and maybe a bite of oranges.  At the lunch table Hudson looked around at everyone and asked; "Hey Gary! When are these guys gonna go to kindergarten??" Ha!  So I asked him when he was gonna go?  He said, "When I grow up."  :) I hope all of you had a great Memorial Day weekend.  I also want to mention that Lauralea is covering for me today while I get my hearing aids adjusted at 4:15. Hudson was at the bottom of the slide while the others were sliding down and he kept asking all of them; "Do you want me to catch you!?!"  Here's a picture of Hudson "catching" Atley.  She intentionally kind of pushed forward and ended up on top of him and Believe me he wanted out from under her!!  She kind of just bowled him over.  :)  That made me laugh!! ...

Atley ate brown rice and raisins for breakfast.  For lunch she ate half of salmon, ate whole wheat dinner roll, no green beans, and a bite of mangoes.  Lauralea said, "bye kids" at breakfast like she does just about every day.  They (Nora, Atley, Avilene, and Hudson) were all laughing and giggling, waving bye and mimicking her by chanting, "bye kids" as she was leaving.  :) This first picture made me laugh!  (As usual!  Ha!)  Nora had been standing beside Atley and by the time I got the camera she'd jumped, but Atley got distracted looking out the window.  What made me laugh is because of what distracted her!  I doubt if anyone could guess with 10 tries!  I'm sure I couldn't except I'm the one who trains them to be very vigilant and hyper sensitive about spotting the enemy -  Dandelions !!  Ha!  Atley was saying, "Dandelion, dandelion, dandelion!!"  Nice work super Scout!!  :) Here are some more pictures fr...

Atley ate half of whole wheat english muffin and maybe a bite or two of oranges for breakfast.  For lunch she ate bites of ground beef, large serving of elbow noodles covered with a large serving of applesauce and ate bites of her peas.  I know the kids are usually just about done eating if they start messing around at meal time.  At lunch today Atley was close to being done and she started closing her eyes saying, "nap time!" Avi and Hudson did the same.  Then Avi opens her eyes and said, "Morning time!!"  Repeat over and over.  (As you can obviously see this wasn't the first time for this game!!)  Ok kids that's hilarious, but lets go into the play room to play!!  :) This first picture is from yesterday afternoon when the kids were playing in the two tunnels we have hooked together.  I think there were two or maybe three kids inside the tunnel when I took the picture. They were having fun rolling the big balls along in front of them. ...