Kenzie about half of her English muffins and a bite of blueberries at breakfast. At lunch Kenzie ate thirds on saltine crackers ( one of them with the canned chicken on it), and all of her cherries and potatoes.
A couple days ago I had an idea to take close up pictures of everyone's hands, except Riley and the three babies because they didn't want to cooperate. Now the kiddos request to "do the hand game", which means I show them the pictures on my iPad (eventually I will print them off and laminate them) and they guess whose hands are whose. All of the bigger kiddos (Thomas and up) love it.
Another thing I have done is to take pictures of different items out in the big room and then ask them to bring me the actual item that matches. That is one of the things the developmental checklist wants to know, so I decided to make it into a game also.
Kenzie and Joslyn we looking at the Snow White and the seven dwarfs book and asking each other who was grumpy, dopey and sneezy. Those seemed to be the only three dwarfs they could remember.
I was trying to figure out a way to assess if Kenzie could understand sequencing of events, such as the routine of putting a baby to bed. Tat specific example didn't work so I tried another. I asked her what Lauralea does when she watches me fix lunch, since she does it fairly often. She said I cut stuff up. I tried a little prompting and asked what if the food was supposed to be warm instead of cold and she announced readily, "We burn it!!" Gary and I cracked up! : )
Kenzie, Emily, Aaron,and Thomas were all using a stuffed animal to stand on while holding onto the changing table rim, then pushing off backwards and flopping onto the mattress. They were all laughing so hard and having so much fun.
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