November 2006

Nov.6-Nov.12, 2006
• Isaac has added another Leap-ism (Leap is the name of his talking Frog) to his vocabulary. He’s always saying “I’m so glad I’m friends with you”—very cute.
• On Wednesday Isaac looked up at a segment of the Baby Shakespeare video and said, “the animals climb up the escalator” –he blows my mind with how fast he’s putting new sentences together. He also wanted to blow bubbles in his milk tonight with a straw so he said to James “mas soplar burbujas”—I don’t recall teaching him that—I’ve just told him to soplar something cuando esta caliente so its cool to see him put together new word combos in Spanish.
• Grandma Nuttall came to visit this week and help us out. Like with my mom, Isaac did well one on one with her, but when I was around he could get a bit onery with her and do an annoying scream or hit. A lot of times Isaac would say “no pegues—don’t hit grandma” as he was doing it or “don’t scream—no grites” after screaming. At least he knows what he’s supposed to do even if he doesn’t exactly follow through.
• When we were doing family prayer one night, Isaac looked up at Marti and exclaimed, “Grandma’s sleeping!” We all had a good laugh.
• “once upon a time there was a little baby in momma’s tummy and then baby Levi come out of momma’s tummy”—wow! He gets it.
Levi:
• First bath! He didn’t mind too much because I took a bath with him and let him nurse to comfort him while I put soap and water on him. He smelled all clean and fresh!
• Grandma Nuttall came to visit and we tried out a bunch of new recipes for James’ diet. Levi got it all in the breast milk. He loves his breast milk and makes lots of cute gulping and squeaking sounds as he eats.


Nov.13-19, 2006
• Isaac’s language development is amazing. He really picks up on new words fast and he’s good at creating new sentences and meanings. He’s also become more aware of when we rephrase things to correct him. For example he’d been saying, “momma help you” when he wanted help. I started rephrasing it for him and asking him to say “momma help me” or “ayudame” and he really picked up on it fast. Sometimes he’ll start to say it the old way and but then stop and correct himself.
• Isaac likes to point at Levi and say “he’s a little brother” and then with prompting, “he’s my little brother”
• He’s adapting pretty well to Levi—he just always likes to pull me over to play with Thomas train while I’m nursing.
• Isaac has been doing something interesting with question formation. He had been saying “what are you doing?” but this week a few times he’s said “what you are doing?”—I think I remember learning about that type of error in my linguistics class.
• Airport / airpork 
• Holy crap. . .be careful what you say around Isaac (I said that when we almost hit a car and Isaac repeated it religiously)
Levi
• More vocalizations, more alert time, and lots of gas!
• He likes to go around with us in the carriers and we usually carry him around a lot during the day because if we lay him somewhere else to sleep he tends to wake up faster.


Nov. 20-26, 2006

• We got to go to the “airpork” on Sunday with a little help from our friend Heather Lau and go up in a big airplane in the sky. Isaac loves everything about airplanes except the fact that he has to wear a seat belt during take off and landing. . .and not being able to kick the seat in front of him. . .and not being able to escape to the aisles, etc.
• We visited my Mom, then my dad and then we went to Phoenix for a big Hargis reunion at the cactus park and then a big Bosen reunion at Tara’s new house.
• Isaac had a lot of fun with his cousins. Lots of bathtime craziness with Sophie and Ellie.
• He looked up at the proclamation to the family on Matt and Lara’s wall while we were there and said, “Heavenly Father made Adam and Eve.” Pretty cute.
Levi:
• Levi’s first airplane ride! He did great and mostly slept and nursed (and pooped ofcourse). It was actually a lot easier to handle Levi than Isaac who kept wanting to bang on the seat in front of him or escape to run down the aisles.
• We took lots of pics of Levi and Matthew together. Matthew looks a lot more filled out and bigger than Levi and he’s already very interactive. Levi will catch up soon! One day they’ll be good buds.



Nov. 27-Dec.3, 2006
• He really loves smothering Levi with slobbery kisses. Overall he’s really gentle with Levi, but sometimes he’ll push to hard on his head and twist his little fingers a little too much—I just do my best to let Isaac share the love and protect Levi at the same time.
• He’s been busting out a few more sentences in Spanish lately like Vamos de compras par manzanas y vamos a la bilioteca.
• As we were driving to church on Sunday Isaac looked out the window and said, “It’s hot outside, we have to blow on it.”
• He looked at Levi this week and said, “Baby Levi, what do you want for your birthday?” Pretty cute. We think he probably learned the phrase from watching the Elmo birthday video a few too many times.
• Claudia and I took Isaac and Michael and Levi to the galleria on Thursday and they had a marvelous time riding in the elevators. I think we must have gone up and down from the first to the 12th floor a dozen times and that still wasn’t enough for Isaac –I had to drag him away kicking and screaming. He kept saying “vamos a los ascensores”—
• Drawing elevators
Levi:
• He’s starting to make other sounds besides crying and the beginnings of some cute smiles.
• He’s amazingly tolerant of Isaac showering him with slobbery kisses.
• Levi really seems to enjoy bathtime. He doesn’t complain at all about staying for a while in the tub and Isaac has fun washing his toes with the bubble soap.
• I started putting him facing outwards in the baby carrier this week because he’s more alert and seems ready to start observing the world around him.