Dinosaur boys

Sept. 15-Sept.20, 2008

We had a good park day on Monday. I try to remind myself that the good weather here won’t last—we definitely got spoiled in San Diego and Houston with mild winters. They say that the winter here last year wasn’t too bad but maybe that means that this year will be a doozey.
When we were walking home from the park Isaac saw a guy dressed like a baker sitting outside a culinary arts school. He said, “mom, do you see what I see?” and got this big excited grin. He squealed, “it’s a baker mom! A real baker!” Luckily the guy smiled and said hi. Isaac felt like he was meeting a neighborhood celebrity.
Isaac seems to be doing better with behaving himself at school. His teacher said that he has been more mellow the past two days. Hopefully he can keep it up. I’ve enjoyed having some one-on-one time with Levi. Usually Carrie and I go to the park so he and Jordan can run around together and then I go to the library with Levi. There’s actually a good dvd selection at the Roxborough library and Levi loves obsessing over all of the dvd covers—especially anything with Veggie Tales on it. Today his big trophy was the Larry Boy movie.
Kim McKay got us into the big Adventure Aquarium in New Jersey on Wednesday. The boys loved getting to see sharks and “Nemo fish” as Levi calls them. Levi and Kim’s little boy Elliot wanted to run through the whole place and they wore themselves out pretty well—Levi zonked out on the way home.
I read a book called “The Last Lecture” for a Wharton book club tonight. The book is pretty amazing—I still need to watch the video of the last lecture but the book is a pretty detailed expansion of it. Its one of those books that can’t help but make you want to be a better person and really live in the moment—you just never know when your time on earth will be cut short.
We discovered a thrift store Thursday morning over by Aldis and the boys had fun playing with the toys while I sifted through the kids books. I found some cute Dora books and a really fun Spanish book about a jumping backpack.
James has been gone in the evenings a lot this week and the boys miss the physical rough housing with their dad. Levi especially starts “spazzing out” so I try to put on some dance music and swing them around.
Friday morning we walked by an old building that looked like a castle and when we walked by I pointed it out to Isaac. He said, “What will the king say if we go inside the castle mom?”
Isaac asked me at the park on Saturday how to say “show me” in Spanish and I told him “muestrame” and then he said, “quiero mostrarte algo mama”—he must have recognized the verb because I was amazed at how fast he was able to put it back into its infinitive form.
We hung out with our Chilean friends on Sunday and that’s always such a great opportunity for the boys to get great Spanish exposure by someone other than James and I. Isaac was speaking a lot of Spanish with Matias and it was so fun to hear him talk. Levi was catching on to a lot of new words to and he can say “gracias” and “por favor” pretty well.