Atley's Journal

Atley ate oatmeal and dried cranberries for breakfast.  For lunch she ate tilapia ("this is really good food"), a large serving of whole wheat elbow noodles, ate two green beans, and a large serving of applesauce. This first picture was taken yesterday afternoon and I was amused how 4 out of 5 of my kids (Avi wasn't here) were using such a small area of the room!  And they played like this for several minutes.  Believe me, sometimes I need and use every square inch of the area!!  Other times, like this, I only need a spot 4' x 5' and that's enough! There were just two kids, Atley and Linnea, here for over 30 minutes first thing this morning and for awhile they were running and crawling between the igloo and the box.  Judging from the squealing, laughing, and giggling I think they were having a blast!  :)  Atley was playing so sweet with her!!  Next two pictures:  Atley checking out her ponytails and then in the following picture she's l...

Atley ate several bites of whole wheat bagel and ate peaches for breakfast.  For lunch she ate hamburger & sausage pizza, whole wheat pizza crust, with olives, pineapple, peppers, tomato sauce, and ate a large serving of pineapple on the side.  Two or three times (including yesterday's Blog) I've talked about the digital picture frame on the wall by the table and what a HUGE hit it is with the kids, especially at meal times.  Well it quit working yesterday afternoon!  Haha!  (It's several years old and we've had trouble with it in the past.)  So a new one will be here on Tuesday, but the kids were like "what the heck happened to our pictures!?!"  :)  Some things just have to be replaced immediately!! First picture: I took this when Daddy Ryan was driving by.  I didn't capture them all waving, but Linnea was also saying, "bye bye bye bye" along with the other two.  So cute.  The angle of this picture makes Atley look SO much b...

Atley ate whole wheat toast and two servings of grapes for breakfast.  For lunch she ate pork roast, bites of whole wheat tortillas, bites of carrots, no potatoes, and ate fruit salad. I was telling Megan about this today, but I'm still gonna put it in the Blog.  Here at Daycare Atley frequently calls me "Gar Gar" and then occasionally she'll shorten it to "Gar."  (rhymes with bear)  So she was drawing and said, "I make a leaf Gar!!"  "I make a banana Gar!!"  "I make a tree Gar!!"  Ha! I've mentioned this before, but it kind of started with Riley.  She was "Ri Ri."  Then Nora became "Nor Nor" then Lauralea became "Lor Lor" and Riley and Kenzie came up with "Gar Gar" for me. These first two pictures are from yesterday afternoon.  Nora, Avi, and Atley were working hard at doing some stickers and they had lots of fun with it.  Also in the first picture I want to again mention the digi...

Atley ate two servings of toasted whole wheat english muffin and ate dried plums for breakfast.  For lunch she ate several bites of chicken, a large serving of brown rice, no stir fry vegetables, and no oranges. I gave Atley a love after she was done waving at Momma and asking for help with a dress-up shirt. She asked, "Will you snuggle me on the couch?"  :)  Of course!!  I had the camera and we did this selfie you see!  The shirt has flowers on it and Atley said, "These are snowflakes!"  :)  A couple minutes later she asked, "Can I go take pictures?"  (with a preschool camera)  Sure.  Except I was enjoying the snuggle!!  :)   Next picture: Ok, this cracked me up!!  Avi had been here maybe five minutes (they'd all just waved to Daddy Andy) when she looked at Atley and Nora and said, "Ok, come and get some water." She didn't ask if they were thirsty, nope, no reason to do that, just told them what they needed!! ...

Atley ate chex cereal and bites of banana for breakfast.  For lunch she ate ground beef, half of whole wheat pita bread, ate olives, no tomatoes, no avocado, and ate strawberries. The funnest thing about returning from a trip is the excitement and joy with the Little Treasures children.  Lots of loves and snuggles and they're so excited to be back with their buddies.  I want to thank all of you again for allowing me to extend Thanksgiving time-off to include the entire week.  So precious to be with our family and new grandson Gideon - six weeks old on Thanksgiving Day.  We had Thanksgiving dinner at Gideon's Great Grandmother's house.  (20 relatives and very special time to meet them all.)  We had something I bet none of you had!?!  A 5" lizard climbing up the side of the tablecloth right beside Lauralea!  So hilarious!  My Son-in-Law grabbed it with his left hand and kept on eating with his right hand!!  I about died laughing! ...

Atley ate most of brown rice and ate raisins for breakfast.  For lunch she ate salmon, bites of whole wheat dinner roll, ate riced cauliflower, and ate lots of mangoes. First I want to remind everyone that Little Treasures will be closed for ALL of Thanksgiving week. I want to say a very heartfelt Thank You to all my families for allowing me this opportunity to be with my Daughter, her Husband, and their new Baby Boy.  I can hardly wait to get my hands on that little guy!!  Thank you all so much.  The Blogs will resume on Monday, November 26th. First picture:  Linnea was watching me put a ponytail in Atley's hair and I asked her if she wanted a pony.  She nodded her head in agreement, which was very misleading!!  She wasn't that agreeable in the process!!  Haha! She and Atley were looking in the mirror when I took the picture and I asked Atley, "What do you think of Linnea's ponytail?"  She said, "It's black."  Haha!  Ok, whatev...

Atley ate two servings of toasted whole wheat english muffin and ate oranges for breakfast.  For lunch she ate ground beef, most of whole wheat elbow noodles, bites of peas, and most of applesauce. First picture: I guess the mattress was their "swimming pool" this morning and Svea was the "ducky." They were all (Avi, Atley, and Nora) jumping and saying, "We got out ducky out of the water, we got our ducky out of the water!"  Look how much air Avi is getting at the back of the picture.  Nice jumping Avi!! Things were a bit different for about 45 minutes this morning.  Lauralea watched the kids for me while I went and got a new (used) king size mattress for the kids to jump on!  It's considerably bigger and they were all thrilled!  Avi said, "I like this new mattress Gary!!"  The old mattress had years of use and abuse and was pretty worn!!  :)  Now I have to go get some fitted sheets tonight!  I took this next picture right before...