4/19/13

Joslyn ate all of her oatmeal and craisins at breakfast. A lunch she ate everything also -- lean ground beef, applesauce and peas and pasta with shredded cheese on 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!

At art time we just did free draw so I could watch her 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 Joslyn said, "I drew a bathtub and it was HUGE!"

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.

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. Joslyn kept calling them "tantrum chairs", maybe because of the term 'throwing a tantrum' ??? 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. She would jump up say a couple words and get all shy and go sit back down again.

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!