Atley's Journal

Atley ate oatmeal and two servings of baked cinnamon apples for breakfast.  For lunch she ate half of hamburger stew with meat, tomatoes, green beans, and carrots.  She ate whole wheat dinner roll and ate apricots. I posted a picture of Avi and Atley yesterday doing some measuring with an old tape measure.  Well it broke.  They were enjoying it immensely so I got a couple of nice tapes from Ace Hardware last night.  (The tapes were smaller and easy for them to pull out.)  And the three girls had lots of fun with those this morning. Next picture:  The girls were watching the neighbors run the "chop saw."  What are you doing?  Neighbor Joel is "building a birdhouse for his 4-H project."  It looked to me like Joel was supervising while his Mother built the bird house!!  :) Last picture; the kids played on the airplane again outside.  It seems to be a super hit for everyone!! Nora and Avi are watching Atley bail out the b...

Atley ate French toast and a few dried plums for breakfast.  For lunch she ate pulled pork, two servings of whole wheat toast, ate peas, and two servings of cantaloupe. I haven't mentioned this for awhile, but Nora, Avi, and Atley have been doing an  awesome  job every day after snack picking up toys before we go outside!!  It's really quite impressive!  They love the outside time of course so that gives them lots of motivation and they are doing great with it.  Everyday when they're close to being done one of them will say, "We almost got it!!"  I'm impressed! First picture - left over from yesterday.  I've got an OLD tape measure that almost all the numbers have worn off the first 20 inches or more!  Haha!  However the spring is still strong in it!!  There is a button on the side you push and it still works great.  So the kids have been having fun with that.  Today Avi asked if she could do "some measuring" with it. ...

Atley ate two servings of whole wheat toast and ate mangoes for breakfast.  For lunch she ate ground beef with marinara sauce on whole wheat spaghetti noodles, ate cauliflower, and a large serving of fruit salad. First picture: How many pictures have I posted with the kids waving at the window!?!  Haha!  I like this one because they are all waving.  (At Momma Molly Nelson.)  Second picture: This made me laugh!  Callahan looks like he thinks it's funny too!!  :)  Atley kept saying, "peekaboo" and pulling her dress up over her face.  Linnea was trying to do it too, but her shirt was not nearly as loose as Atley's dress!!  :) Next picture: Atley is working on a "caterpillar" puzzle.  This is a good one that helps her to recognize numbers.  She's doing it by shape and color, but the numbers are also there and in order. Last picture: This was Linnea's first day to see the airplane toy.  (She was gone Monday and Tues...

Atley ate two servings of whole wheat bagel and ate grapes for breakfast.  For lunch she ate shrimp, a large serving of brown rice, most of stir fry vegetables, and a large serving of raspberries. Atley was gone to the Dentist for awhile this morning and we were outside when she returned.  The kids were on the new toy and having lots of fun and in the first picture Atley is at the controls!  :)  In the second picture she'd went over beside Baby Callahan and was actually staring at the baby toys on the blanket!  Haha!  (Obviously out of sight in the picture.) That cracked me up!  So I asked her if she'd sit down and pat the baby and she did.  :)  (You know, to make it look like she was super interested in him.  Haha!  She does like him just fine, she just has lots more important things to do!!!) I mentioned above that we played outside for awhile this morning.  There's a window of time when we can do that depending on fe...

Atley ate most of bran cereal and most of raisins for breakfast.  For lunch she ate chicken, whole wheat pita bread, no cucumbers, bites of avocado, and ate a large serving of pears. Nora and Atley were on the mattress and Nora was the "doctor."  She was wanting to do a checkup on Atley, but Atley wasn't really cooperating and she rolled over on her side.  That frustrated Nora and she flopped down on the mattress in a major dramatic maneuver and laid there sucking her thumb.  Avi was monitoring the activity of course and she yelled in a disgusted voice, "NORA!! Doctors do NOT lay down!!"  Haha!  I roared!! First picture: Well when you're one of the first kids here - Callahan was already taking a nap - guess what?!?  You get to help Lauralea sort and fold her socks!!  Haha!!  Lucky you Atley!  :) I had to be downtown to sign some papers at 9:00 this morning and Lauralea covered for me.  I took this next picture as soon a...

Atley ate whole wheat cream of wheat and dried plums for breakfast.  For lunch she ate baked beef kabobs with meat, pineapple, zucchini, and peppers.  She also ate brown rice and pineapple on the side. Avi was trying to convince Nora she NEEDED to go to Avi's house!  Again, Nora was basically ignoring it all.  Avi said, "Hey Nora! NORA! My house has some ice cream!!"  Nora didn't respond,  HOWEVER  that made Atley whirl around!!  LOL!  "What colors do you have!?!" Atley asked!  Avi said, "Blackberry!!  NORA, I have blackberry!!"  No response.  :)  However, Atley was ready!! Story and Eden, my two Granddaughters from Billings are here until Sunday afternoon and it was very fun to have them in Daycare this morning.  And very BUSY BUSY BUSY I might add!!  In the first picture Story was totally enthralled with baby Callahan and WHATEVER Story was doing, all the other kids wanted to do too of course.  :)...

Atley ate waffle and a couple bites of fruit salad for breakfast.  For lunch she ate shepherd's pie with meat, potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, and carrots.  She ate whole wheat tortillas, and cherries. First picture: Svea was doing one of her favorite activities; strolling around the room blind!!  I was giggling about this and of course Atley wanted to impress me too!  So she put a doll blanket over her head, but she never moved.  She just stood in one place hanging on to the changing table!  Haha!  It doesn't feel real safe does it Atley!?! Avi asked me, "Can we do some gluing?"  Sure and I got her some paper.  She said "we," but neither Atley or Nora wanted to glue.  Avi said, "Atley, do you want to do some gluing?"  Atley said, "No, I want to read books."  (Repeat two or three times.)  Finally Avi disgustedly said, "Ok Fine !! Read some books!!!" Last picture: Atley experimenting with the magnetic tray ...