6/8/12

Alayna ate most of her raisins and about half of her malt-o-meal at breakfast.  At lunch she ate all of her spaghetti with extra meaty sauce, all of her watermelon and most of her mixed fruit. 

We only had six kiddos here today so things were pretty mild.  Gary decided since there were fewer kiddos to try to check out the light fixture part of the big room fan (that died while he was laid up with his back).  The kiddos were enthralled when he brought in the 6 foot ladder.  They sat on the couch and watched him climb the ladder and work on it for about 10 minutes. 


It was kind of a "more" day today.  I started with four books I think and every time I would get done, all of the 'big kiddos' would say, "Can you read more?"  I think we ended up ready about 16 or so!  And it would have been more, but my throat was starting to get scratchy so I vetoed it!  : )

For about 20 minutes the other kiddos were all being kind of crazy over on the 'rowdy' side of the room.  Usually Alayna is right in the middle of that, but today she was very engaged in playing with one of the dolls and didn't even go over to check out what they were doing.  She was putting the doll into one of the cooking pans (like it was a seat for it) then taking it to the table to feed it.  That's fine as long as she doesn't decide to warm it up by sticking it on the stove top!  : )  

We have these magnetic boards that have little "M & M" looking things in them that you move around with a magnetic wand to make different designs.  We only have five of them so we don't use them when all of the kiddos are here, because we have 6-8 'big' kiddos usually and there isn't enough.  Today with just 5, we got them down and the four biggest loved it.  Thomas even tried to do it, but his skills aren't quite conducive to success yet.