4/19/13

Kenzie has been back to not eating quite as voraciously most of this week. Probably the developmental streak she was going through has calmed down a little. This morning she only ate a couple bites of her oatmeal and craisins at breakfast. At lunch she ate all of her applesauce, about half of her lean ground beef and a couple bites of her peas and pasta along with all of the cheese of the top.

I hadn't done a developmental checklist on RaeAhnna before when we did everyone else because she had just started and we dent know how long she would be around. The caseworker was wanting some extra observation information her from us and what we saw so I decided the easiest way to accomplish that was to do the actual assessment on her. Today I spent a lot of the morning focussing on that! Kenzie was right their listening, but did a great job of letting Rae do the stuff, rather than jumping in herself.

At art time we just did free draw so I could watch Rae's hand usage, how she held the markers and what she could and couldn't do. All of the rest of the kiddos had a blast drawing too and

When we first went to the back room Kenzie and Joslyn announce "This room is too messy!" They then proceeded to clean up literally the whole room. The put all of the Duplos in the Duplo table drawer, the cars on the shelf and piled all of the it interlocking blocks in a pile in one corner. When they were done they looked around with their hands on their hips with great satisfaction. Kenzie announced, "that's better!"

Obviously, after everything was picked up it was a little boring without anything out to play with. they then asked if i would help them build something. I asked them if they wanted me to make them throne chairs, which they decided was okay. At first i made them just big enough for one child to fit, but there were only enough blocks for two chairs. Having only two chairs with four children didn't work well after the newness of sitting on each others laps wore off so i had to enlarge them to fit two each.

After the chairs were completed, Joslyn decided that one of them should get up and sing for the spectators. She was encouraging Riley to take turns singing too. Kenzie took it to a whole new level and got up and started break dancing! During one of her crazier dances she kind of slipped and bonked her head pretty hard on the floor. I think she would have cried if it hadn't been that Riley, Aaron and Joslyn started laughing!

Yesterday afternoon, out of the blue Joslyn decided that Cooper (who was in the saucer right outside of the gate needed a story read to him. Gary got a pretty good picture of it! I thought I would add it here so you could see it.