Nora - 02/12/2021

Nora ate some brown rice and some raisins for breakfast.  For lunch she ate two servings of salmon, ate whole wheat dinner roll, riced cauliflower, and three servings of mangoes.   

First picture: Nora said, "this is someone walking in the street." I'm immediately intrigued and searching for the meaning of the chaos in this person's head!!  Hahaha. Nora quickly grew impatient with all my questions. She said, "I just drawed their head!" LOL. No more and no less! Get over it Gary. :)

Next picture: After cleaning up from breakfast this is where I found Nora and Svea. The heat vent is under that yellow bench. Ha. It has an arched top that points the flow to the center of the room, but I keep the yellow bench covering it so kids don't stand on it. Anyhow these two know where the choice seats in the house are located on a cold winter morning! :)

Next picture; Making some more Valentine's cards. Look where Svea has set up to work on her Art. Very close to Nora. Ha. She'll sometimes do that before a meal and I'll scoot her chair back over to give both of them more room. Nora is usually fine with it; this morning she said, "I asked Svea to move over and she didn't!!" 

Ok, I'm gonna write about what happened shortly after I took the picture above. I wrote on the front of these cards for the kids - at their request - Nora did both sets of Grandparents and Atley did a card for Nana and Papa. Nora told me all 4 names of her Grandparents. Then Nora asked Atley, "What's Nana and Papa's names?" Atley said, "Nana and Papa." This quickly escalated and Nora was yelling, "No it's NOT!" Nora (at this point FURIOUS and near HYSTERICS - I'm not exaggerating) Yelled, "My name is NORA, your name is ATLEY, they have a NAME!! (Good logic by the way.) Atley just sat there looking at Nora with a half-amused look on her face. Nora wasn't done; "Mine is Pam and Greg! Jerry and Diane. What is their NAME!?!" Atley; "Nana and Papa." Nora screaming; "NO IT'S NOT!!" Ok, time for Gary to help out because this was not going well. Atley seemed slightly mystified as to why Nora couldn't simply accept their names as Nana and Papa. Atley said, "I can ask them." (Which was a great idea.) So I talked to Nora and suggested she think about the fact that her friend Atley is being honest; maybe she doesn't know their "real" names. By the way, caring for these older kids is pretty fascinating for me. :)

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