Alayna ate most of her raisins and malt-o-meal at breakfast. At lunch she ate all of her spaghetti, most of her mixed fruit and bites of her salad with ranch dressing.
Alayna was pretty testy from the time she came in this morning. She was trying to just run across the room so I put myself in the middle as a physical divider to eliminate that. We were watching her pretty close, but she still manages to bite Thomas' finger (really hard) and Joslyn's back today before we could get her stopped. Thomas was trying to climb up the climber by the jumping mattress and Joslyn was in the play space inside the dress-up clothes deal about 5 minutes after Alayna had left it (but obviously still thought it was "hers"). After she bit Thomas, she had a kind of shocked look on her face like "What have I done?!" Both times we had her take a break in the back room alone (away from her friends, potential bitees, and our attention) after we had emphatically told her NO BITING and that teeth are only for food. I don't know how much of a "punishment" the back room is, because she actually seems to like playing by herself. It is more for the safety of others.
While she was in the back room playing independently during the first time, she pooped in her diaper. I realize that was mostly my fault for not taking her before. I thought maybe needing to poop was contributing to her testiness, but she still struggled after that and had the second biting incident, so maybe not.
Alayna has really enjoyed playing with the sets of keys we have out right now. She especially likes to hook and unhook them on the hooks in the dress-up deal.
We are looking forward to a new start after nap and hopefully it will go better than the morning. : )
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