Noah and Aviva have been discussing and debating everything, and there is a lot of exploration and discussion about what is Fair and Equal and Right. Aviva pointed at Noah and herself and started saying "Eenie meenie miney mo...." and when it landed on her, she gloated a little and pointed out that she won. Noah was not happy and started complaining, until I pointed out that it wasn't for anything. There wasn't something that Aviva won or got to do first. It was just a means to make her the winner at something. Noah liked thinking about that, and how he could also say, "Ha ha! I'm green and you're blue" or even "I'm 17 and you're the letter F!"
Aviva is counting everything and also counting to 100 all the time. Sometimes she goes from 28 to 29 to 80, or sometimes 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, then 90, but she understands it more or less. She counts the noodles on her plate and the people in the room and the leaves on that sidewalk square.
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| Aviva helped me peel the 5 pomegranates it took to fill this bowl |
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| Aviva's bed/closet |
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Thanksgiving
At Thanksgiving, we got to hang out with aunt Joanna, uncle Steve, and cousins Anya and Mika. The kids got to play a lot of games and just generally hang out a lot and that was really nice.
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This is David and Alea's new baby Solomon, who is 2 weeks old here.
Aviva keeps calling him King Solomon by mistake |
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| King Solomon's big brother Avery |
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| Avery + Aviva |
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| Avery + David |
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| We met up with our friends Rachel, Zack, Norah, and Ellis |
Aviva is also doing a ton of pretending and wants us to play with her, but she wants to dictate the situation. Yesterday: "Pretend you're a baby and I'm the teacher and you don't know how to swim and you're dying and drowning, and then I'm saving you." And when I do all that, she's comforting me and petting my face and saying "It's okay, sweetie, I've got you. And now pretend that you don't know who saved you and you are looking around but you can't talk because you're still a baby but you're really happy. And now you want me to call your mom but you don't have any words but you still want me to call your mom on the phone and I did and now she's parking...." and it goes on and on. This is her favorite kind of play lately.
Dan's mom Evy, (Papa's mom, Bubbe) moved on Monday, after spending a few weeks living with Nana and Papa. Aviva says she moved to Fancilvania. Which is kind of like Pennsylvania.
At their school on Friday, there was an all-school assembly and many kids got special "shout-outs" including Aviva.
Her award says she's good at sitting in circle and coloring in the lines.
