Oct15-21, 2007Isaac hit a Spanish resistant stage this week. Sometimes when we speak Spanish he just goes “English! English!” He just wants to pray in English—I think its probably because we go to church in English now. He’ll still speak in Spanish with us, but he definitely gets into some new “English only” moods. Isaac is getting better at using the first person in English. He’ll say things like, “Why I’m being naughty?” (we’ll work on question formation and naughtiness later). He’ll also surprise me and say nice things like, “I want kiss baby Levi”Levi likes bringing shoes to everyone. He does it one by one though and makes a lot of cute mismatches. He’s always ready to go outside and play and he knows if he can just get everyone to put shoes on that he’ll be one step closer.I got really, really sick on Friday. I’d had a cold for the past couple of weeks, but then when I woke up on Friday morning I had extreme vertigo and it made me throw up repeatedly. James took me to the urgent care center and the doctor said I had a sinus infection and an inner ear infection that was affecting by balance. He prescribed antibiotics, decongestant, mezcline for vertigo, and cough syrup with codine so that I could sleep. He told me to stay in bed for a couple of days and just get rest and drink fluids, HA! What a mess. James had to take off work on Friday and our neighbors helped us with the kids. Luckily it happened over a weekend so James was able to take care of the kids and the house. My friend Sarah came over and took the kids to the zoo Saturday afternoon and James was pretty grateful for the break.
Oct.22-28, 2007On Monday when I was focusing on making pizza, Isaac was trying to get my attention and he threw my cell phone in the sink. I don’t think that I’ve ever been so mad at him. The phone totally blitzed out and is definitely out of commission. I’m holding out hope that it will dry out, but so far no luck. I’ve really missed my cell phone though—its crazy how dependant I’ve become on it. Now I have to do without and its been pretty frustrating. It’s hared to imagine a world without Levi’s contagious smile and bouncy personality. Levi now says “da” for anything he wants to pick up. He also learned to say a modified version of giraffe, “ja” and dog “dah”(not to be confused with “da”). His other word is “ba” for babies. Whenever he sees Caleb, Peter, or Cecilia (the babies in our neighborhood) he points and says “ba!”Levi had his 1 year birthday on Tuesday, but since I’ve been sick we didn’t do much more than sing happy birthday and take a few pics—we’ll celebrate it with a fiesta next week.Isaac’s been struggling with a bad cold/flu/fever after his ear infection so things have been a little rough. He did finally start taking his medicine by swallowing it himself instead of us pinning him down and plugging his nose to force it down.Isaac has several names he likes to call me lately ranging from “om” to “my mother” to “momma llama” to “mama” Levi is very good with his hands. He’s figured out how to get pen caps on and off—bad news for our walls and furniture because he also loves trying to draw on everything. He also figured out this week how to unscrew the plastic top off of a plastic bottle.The director at Isaac’s preschool says that he can stay enrolled in class even though he’s not fully potty trained. I said that I would take him out if it was a problem, but she insisted that he stay. I’m glad, but I do hope we can help Isaac make progress with potty training, we’ll kind of at a stand-still right now.
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