Likes & Dislikes : Week of September 12

Likes

• The slide
• Potato skins with chicken, BBQ sauce, and mozzarella cheese
• Crispix cereal
• Climbing the stairs
• The corn popper toy

Dislikes

• Eating food that is different than mom and dad are eating
• Apple crisp
• Baths (E)

Likes & Dislikes : Week of September 5

I know, I know. I skipped last week. But I was running short on both time and ideas. We'll see if I can keep this up every week, or I'd I'll move to every other week or every month.

Likes

• String cheese, in stick form, not in string form
• Chili (j, r)
• Playing with boxes and packs of diapers
• Trying to drink from regular cups
• Eating yogurt with their own spoons (I load it with baby oatmeal to thicken it for them)
• Exploring (and by that I mean running away from me in public places)
• Sour cream

Dislikes

• The inflatable kiddie pool
• Quesadillas, all of a sudden (E, J)
• Being the last one in the car in the morning
• Sitting in any other car seat than the one all the way in the back (E)

Likes & Dislikes : Week of August 22

Likes

• Blueberries (R)
• The duck puzzle piece (J)
• Lolipops, sticks and all
• Using spoons
• Books

Dislikes

• The doctors office, beyond the waiting room

Likes & Dislikes : Week of August 15

Likes

• Mmmm, crayons
• Staying home with grandma and grandpa
• Meatballs > Pasta > Pork chops
• Grilled cheese

Dislikes

• Fresh peaches (J, E)
• Fresh honeydew

Likes & Dislikes : Week of August 8

Likes

• Pictures of cats in books
• Brushing their own hair
• IKEA Sweedish meatballs

Dislikes

• Mosquitos (E)
• Being confined to the living room. We have renamed the Great Wall the Wailing Wall.
• Brushing their teeth
• Long car rides (E)

Likes & Dislikes : Week of August 1

Likes

• Rice
• Tub crayons
• Mom's Chicken Marsala
• Ritz crackers
• Dancing
• New Winnie the Pooh bears from Ms. Malinda

Dislikes

• Reading books from front to back
• Carseat (J. Greg says she acts like it is on fire.)
• Being confined in the living room

Likes & Dislikes : Week of July 25

Likes

• Tortilla chips
• The swagger wagon
• Whatever mom and dad are eating
• Running around in diapers

Dislikes

• The music man setting up at the pizza place

Likes & Dislikes : Week of July 18

Likes

• Wearing dresses
• Eating cookies off the floor (E)
• Chili and corn muffins
• Something (I still can't figure out what) at daycare that stains her clothes bright orange at least once a week (R)
• Spilling milk

Dislikes

• Being up past bed time
• The repetitive nature of gravity
• Fevers
• Bananas (E)
• Change (E)

Likes & Dislikes : Week of July 11

Likes

• Dancing to Michael Jackson (still) (E)
• Dancing to the Itsy Bitsy Spider (J)
• Walking around with dish towels or blankets on their heads
• Blanket Forts

Dislikes

• Frozen pancakes from a box (E)
• Restaurants that only have 2 high chairs

Likes & Dislikes : Week of July 4

Likes

• puzzles
• treasure boxes, aka old wipes boxes
• pushing stuffed animals around in the stroller
• vegetables hidden in yogurt
• spaghetti (R), meatballs (E), spaghetti and meatballs (J)

Dislikes

• the vacuum
• the sprinkler
• vegetables hidden in mashed potatoes

Likes & Dislikes : Week of June 27

Likes

• Chipotle guac
• Anything mom or dad is eating
• Cardboard boxes
• Raisins (making the big leap from E & J's 'dislike' list)
• Meatloaf
• Corn muffins

Dislikes

• When the cardboard box we're riding like a pony tips over
• Diapers (J)
• The "no climbing on the coffee table" rule

Likes & Dislikes : Week of June 20

Likes:

• Quesadillas
• Chewing on new shoes.
• Standing on buckets.
• Staring at other people when we go out to eat instead of eating (E).
• Running the halls at daycare when we're trying to leave.

Dislikes:

• Oatmeal
• Meals that don't end with cookies.
• Crossing the threshold into their daycare classroom.
• Mommy (E). She's daddy's girl at the moment.

Likes & Dislikes : Week of June 13

Likes

• pancakes a la Daddy
• triple-teaming the blanket in the living room
• wearing buckets on their heads
• any toy that doubles as a bracelet
• Chicken parmesan
• Hootie and the Blowfish (E)
• Bruce Springsteen (J)
• Oatmeal raisin cookies (R)

Dislikes

• Blueberries in her pancakes (E)
• Getting in to the car after daycare (E)
• Sharing

Likes & Dislikes : Week of June 6

Likes

• Pot roast
• Sweet potato fries
• Homemade yogurt and fruit smoothies for weekday breakfasts
• Climbing on the coffee table
• This Little Piggy
• The Itsy Bitsy Spider
• toy cell phone
• baby food (I know... but it's one of the few ways I can get them to eat fruits and vegetables at the moment)
• ducks
• former baby food containers (their favorite toy, I swear)

Dislikes

• Grass (E, R)
• Watermelon
• Getting chairs taken away for standing on them
• Mom and dad leaving at daycare
• Ear drops (R)
• Tooth brushing