September 2007

Sept. 3-Sept.9, 2007Isaac asked “how do you say whine in Spanish?” today. The best translation I could come up with is chillar and now Isaac can say “no chilles”Levi is now an official dance machine. When he hears music he’ll start to bounce up and down and try to jump. It’s very entertaining to watch. Isaac and James went shopping for more big boy underwear today and Isaac decided he wanted “breakfast underwear”—a package of fruit of the loom boxer briefs with a picture of a fruit bowl on the front. Kind of quirky, but he wore his breakfast underwear all day and didn’t have any accidents.On Monday we got in our last good swimming day of the summer. The boys both had a blast. Isaac really loves going under the water with James and watching James make a big Splash when he goes off of the diving board. Levi doesn’t mind going under the water, but he prefers toddling around the side of the pool picking up leaves and sticks and wandering off into the grass if he can get away with it. Isaac is becoming more expressive in Spanish when he plays with his toys. He uses English more, but I love it when he plays along with me in Spanish. He’ll say “donde estas Paco?” and then “Aqui estoy!” I told him “el pajarito esta durmiendo” and then he grabbed the bird and said, “mira mama, se desperto” and then he grabbed a horse and said “el caballo esta volando.” Another day he called me over to tell me “el cerdo esta atorado” (the pig is stuck)—sure enough the pig was stuck in his school bus toy and had to be rescued by momma. On Friday Levi started waving and saying “bye bye” when some of our friends were leaving. Extreme cuteness.Isaac is still intensely into looking at family photos. He always wants “read the story about our family.” Last Saturday Isaac went with James to take our friends Jake and Alyssa to the airport. They were heading to Ireland and that sounded like a pretty cool place to Isaac and he’s convinced that he’s meant to go to Ireland now. He asks to go to Ireland at least twice daily. Isaac had his first full day of preschool on Thursday (he’ll just be going to a Tuesday/Thursday class) and I bravely sent him in his big boy underwear. He refused to use the bathrooms at school, but miraculously he didn’t have an accident. He held it the whole day and went right when he got home. We really have to work on this. I don’t know how to get him comfortable with using bathrooms away from home.When I asked Isaac how he liked school all he would tell me is “That’s fun to go to the big boy class and do ‘bing’ on the table” I’m not quite sure what ‘bing’ is, but I can imagine that it was pretty annoying for his teachers.

Sept. 10-Sept.16, 2007
We had to put the cabash on Levi swiping food from the blue table and running around the house dropping crumbs everywhere. I’m just trying to be quicker about clearing the food more quickly and not letting him get a chance to scavenge Isaac’s left overs.
Isaac is doing really well with “potty power” but he’s still not cooperating with using bathrooms outside the home. He’s also not so hot about remembering to do number 2 in the potty.
When Isaac is annoyed with Levi he’ll say, “do you want baby Levi to bonk his head” He also does it with other people’s names. For some reason he loves the word bonk. I’m looking forward to the bonking phase being over.
Levi’s new favorite foods are fish sticks and chicken nuggets. He tries to spear them with a fork and its really cute. He doesn’t have the patience for staying in his high chair too long though and today when he wanted to get my attention that he wanted out, he started waving “bye bye.” His “bye-bye”s are simply adorable.
On Wednesday night Levi kind of learned the word “light.” I made the sign language sign for it and kept repeating it and he finally starting saying “ay!” “ay!” and pointing the light.
Isaac’s new favorite book is “The red balloon” about the little boy in Paris with a magic red balloon. The only tricky thing is that Isaac doesn’t understand why he can’t get a bunch of balloons like the boy in the story and fly around the world.