2nd Week in Philly

July 21-July 27, 2008
This week we made a lot of progress with our unpacking and you can now see the floor in most areas of our apartment.
On Monday we hiked over to Taney park where some moms from church get together for a playgroup. Isaac had a lot of fun playing “restaurant with Jordan and pretending to order things through the plastic window. Levi’s favorite thing now is to go on the swings and he always wants to go higher and he loves it when you do “underdog.”
We all went swimming on Tuesday at an apartment of a family who is moving next week—bummer that they’re moving, but getting access to the pool was amazing. The boys had a blast. Levi can now saw “I go swimming in the water.” He’s does really well with his pronouns.
Keeping up with the Spanish is going to be trickier in Philadelphia. There aren’t very many Latinos in our area of town. We talked to the missionaries from the Spanish branch on Sunday and they said that they would introduce us to some families that live fairly close. I just really want the kids to have some playmates that speak Spanish so that they’re more motivated to learn.
Isaac is very excited about riding his bike lately and he has ridden it over to Jackson and Jordon’s place and all the way over to Markward park. The other day though when we went for a little ride he stopped for a minute and when I asked him what the problem was he said, “I just ran out of gas mom.”
We took the boys to Ikea this week for a little shopping adventure and they both went crazy in this play area there where they have a huge pretend basket filled with plastic red and blue balls. Levi acted like he was swimming in them and Isaac just loved throwing them all over the place.
I’m trying to get back into the routine of reading more to the boys and making sure to alternate with English and Spanish. Levi’s new favorite book is “There’s a Wocket in my Pocket” and Isaac’s is “The Bearnstein Bears and Junkfood.”
Isaac is still being VERY stubborn about trying new foods. The only fruits he’ll eat are strawberries, raisins, and dried blueberries and cranberries. And vegetables—all he’ll touch is tomato sauce but I guess that doesn’t really count as a vegetable.
Levi’s vocab is exploding. His favorite English words and phrases are “milk” “read this book” “play with the toys” “food” “please” “thank you” and “monkeys jumping on the bed.” His favorite Spanish words are “agua” “vamos” “aqui esta” “gracias” “uvas”