Welcome Nayelli

We all enjoyed Nayelli's company today!

And she fit right in . . . .

We went to visit Ms. Faye and her magical yard. The children were fascinated by her little bridge.

What we ate today

Lola made plenty of orange juice this morning and we had some banana, soy crisp crackers and raisins, too.

Lunch was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, broccoli, cucumber and cherry tomatoes, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, and, everyone's favorite . .. . Pirate Booty! I'll admit it, I use the pirate booty to bribe the children, "Finish your broccoli and you can have more pirate booty" If you don't know what it is - Pirate Booty is a health food version of cheetos. Yummy with no artificial ingredients. Everyone had a bowl of plain yogurt with a little maple syrup in it for dessert.

Everyone ate really well!

Windy Day

It was finally windy enough to fly our kites. They really flew and the kids ran up and down the street watching them fly and twirl.

Good Day and a New Puzzle!

I found this great puzzle at the School Supply store and put it on the shelf without saying anything. It has windows and doors with shiny locks and bolts. It didn't take long for Wyatt to find it and all three kids to get excited. It kept them busy on this rainy day.

We also practiced for the show on Thursday. What will your child be for Halloween? Nora says she is going to be a baby and Persi says a dinosaur. Wyatt says he doesn't know. Decide soon and let me know so we can practice the part of the performance when they are in their costumed character.

For snack we had Wyatt and Mommy's cinnamon toast (yum!) and fresh-squeezed orange juice that the kids helped squeeze. For lunch we had quinoa pasta Mac and Cheese, "not-dogs" (vegie hot dogs), brown rice with raisins and peas, cucumber with ranch. Everyone ate well!

What we ate today

Hurrying to finish this as the kids are waking up from nap! I can hear Nora singing in the bed and Wyatt is sitting in the chair in the kitchen barely awake. Persi is still sound asleep.

Today we had for snack: home-made by Lois apple sauce.
Lunch: We made lentil soup today! Yesterday we picked the last of the beans that dried on the vine so today we opened the pods and put the beans in the pot with onions and carrots and yummy lentil soup mix. We ate it with a dollop of plain yogurt.
We also had rice cake with peanutbutter, apple slices and ginger cookies.

Persi and Wyatt loved the soup, Nora did not - she mostly ate the rice cake and pb, apple slices and a bowl of yogurt.

Painting!

Monday morning my plan was to make fancy invitations for our upcoming party and performance.

Nora said, "Ella I NEED to paint." There went my plans.

It worked really well for the children to paint one at a time. We used a large pallet with the primary colors. I didn't say much about it, just let them experiment with mixing and putting it on the page. Later we noticed and named all the colors on each painting.

We made simple little invites and raced the cars across the kitchen floor while waiting for a turn to paint.

Little Routines

Here's the kids in the little hallway outside the bathroom after they are all clean, changed, with hands washed. They do puzzles while waiting for everyone to be finished and while I get the bathroom clean.

I'd like to have a small basket of dress-ups available as well since the big mirror is there. Anyone have hats, poncho, easy-to-put-on fun clothes?? I also need a little gate so the kids don't go running around, but stay put till we are all ready to run around.

I'm so proud of each of the kids! Oftentimes I don't need to say anything - hands are dried, go do a puzzle - sit at the table, put your napkin in your lap - etc. They are getting used to the routines of our day and are generally so cooperative.