Fun at the Children's Museum

Feb. 25-March 2, 2008
On Monday Isaac came up with a new game called “galleria” where we pretend to ride on the elevator in my room (using the folding bathroom divider doors as our elevator doors) and then we run over to our bed and pretend to eat at Mc Donalds and use different colored balloons to represent different flavors of ice cream.
Levi can make the sign language sign for “where”
This week Isaac and I have started playing school while Levi takes a nap and Isaac really gets into it. He’s wanted to focus on shapes and he loves seeing me draw the shapes and he’s really good at naming all of them in English and Spanish.
Isaac always wants to invite all of the neighbors over to dance to the elephant/tiger song by Hap Palmer. On Tuesday we had most of the Helguera kids over and Isaac insisted on repeating the song at least 5 times in a row. The bonus is that the song wears both Isaac and Levi out.
Levi has another bottom tooth coming in and his favorite teething food is now croutons.
Isaac is learning to say “quien es” when he wants to know who someone is instead of “que es eso”
During family prayer, I paused after I said, we thank thee for. . .to let Isaac fill in, but Levi beat him to it on Tuesday and filled in the blank with “bubbles” and then “papa”—pretty cute eh.
On Saturday Isaac was talking with Clara (our neighbor) and she said, “Isaac, your afraid of dogs” and Isaac said “no I’m not” and she said, “but you’re afraid of dogs you don’t know” and Isaac said, “but baby kittens make me happy.” He said it in such a cute way that it made me crack up.
One night Isaac refused to pick up two of his legos and I said, “you will pick up your legos,” but he still refused so he went to time out and then had a change of heart and picked up his legos. What sunk in more than the cleaning lesson though was the future tense—he caught onto that and has been using “will” with every verb he can think of all week. His favorite statement is “I will eat a pbj”
Levi will do the sign language for “where” and “shoes” when he wants to go outside.
Levi can now say “star” and “amen” and “huevo” very clearly.
For Spanish storytime we went to Angela’s house on Friday and Isaac and Levi had a blast doing the “caminar caminar y parar” song.
Isaac is really into “if/then” statements. When we pulled up in front of Angela’s house he said, “We have to speak in Spanish mom because if we don’t speak in Spanish, then Angela will be sad.”
We made two homemade piggy banks out of old containers for the boys this week and they absolutely love them and also make absolutely huge messes with all of the coins, but it keeps them busy.
Isaac is very excited about role playing. He is constantly pretending to be characters from books or movies and people we know. On Sunday he was pretending to be Lorenzo (his little amigo from San Diego) and calling James “Richard” and me “Diana”
Levi’s hair is adorable right now—he’s got very blonde hair and its forming very cute little curls in the back. I don’t think I’ll be able to bring myself to cut it for a while.
On Thursday we went to the Houston children’s museum for the first time because my neighbor had given me a free pass that was going to expire at the end of February. We invited my friend Erika and her little boy Dallin and all of the boys had a blast. They had a room called the “Tot Spot” that the boys couldn’t get enough of. Isaac’s favorite was the ball toy and Levi’s favorite was the “candle” that you could pretend to blow out.
On Friday James and I did a baby sitting swap with some friends from church and we went out to an Italian Gelato place called Picomolo--it was truly amazing stuff. The gelato was phenomenal. James got lemon and chocolate and I got very berry and chocolate. The ingredients were very fresh and it was definitely a worthwhile splurge and also just good to get out. We need to be better about having a regular date night.
On Sunday we took the boys to the Houston temple just to walk around the gardens outside and they really enjoyed it. The flowers there are gorgeous right now and Isaac was very excited to be visiting a “flowery garden.” Levi kept trying to take off his shoes and jump in the giant water fountain, but luckily we were able to keep distracting him.