The Wharton Kids Club met on campus to take some group shots with the kids by the Ben Franklin statue. Levi liked sitting on his lap and Isaac liked crawling up on his shoulders.
Here's the rambling weekly scoop. . .
Oct.13-Oct.19, 2008
The weather was amazing today (Monday) and the fall leaves over at Taney Park were absolutely gorgeous. I haven’t been around such great fall leaves since we lived in Michigan. The boys wore themselves out at the park and I saw Isaac interacting nicely with some little girls pretending to play “restaurant” through a little pretend window. Levi kept running off with some little girls pink mini stroller and cruising all over the park. My new pet peeve is parents who bring their kids toys to the park—it drives me crazy. Having other people’s toys laying around is too tempting and it almost always ends up in a sharing crisis.
We went over to Matthias and Pepitas’ apartment in the late afternoon and the Levi couldn’t get enough of all of Matthias’ Lightning McQueen toys. We took a short swim and they all had fun pretending to be “tiburones” I love hearing Isaac speak Spanish with Matthias.
The threat of taking one of the rocks out of the jar for breaking one of the family rules has been working pretty well for Isaac. He doesn’t like losing his rocks.
We kind of got a slow start this morning (Tuesday) and I let the boys take a long morning bath for fun. Well it was all fun and games until I was getting something from my room and I heard pounding on my door. I opened it to see two construction workers asking me if my toilet was overflowing. I was very confused and I said that I didn’t think so. They said that something was wrong because water was pouring down from our apartment into the auditorium under construction below us. I walked over to the boys bathroom with them and lo and behold, there were my little angels Isaac and Levi DUMPING water out of the tub onto the floor and completely flooding everything. The construction workers got a good laugh out of it and I was mortified. I had to get every towel in the house to sop the darn mess up.
My Spanish/ASL class went really well for Tuesday. The kids loved the chocolate and diez dedito songs. We played review games with the food signs with the parachute and by doing a hot potato (my version was bolsa caliente with a bag) game that I made up.
The weather was absolutely gorgeous on Wednesday so I took the boys to the zoo. We really had a good time. We were there right when the zoo opened so we got to be the first ones to ride on the zoo balloon. The boys got to chat with “captain” Corey and it was pretty cool—I love the view that you get from way up there. When the boys were playing in the treehouse later on someone told me that they thought they heard someone crying and when I went inside the treehouse area I found Levi covered with blood on the steps. Luckily it was just a bloody nose and once I wiped the blood away he was fine—it was pretty scary to see him with all of that blood though. I’m so glad that I didn’t have to take him to the emergency room.
Isaac’s new word lately is “nevermind”—I’m not sure where he picked it up, maybe from me right? But it drives me crazy!
Levi is a complete and total ball of energy. He is in his full energizer bunny glory right now. At night he loves to be chased around the aparment, dance to music, jump on the bed and be rough housed by James. Getting him to sit still long enough to eat lately is tricky because he’d much rather be running than eating. His new favorite food is green peppers which is great—I really hope he never loses the taste for them. Isaac in the other hand is still a vegetable disaster and I have to blend veggies into his refried beans and spaghetti sauce to make sure that he gets those extra vitamins.
I got a note from Isaac’s preschool teacher saying that I need to help him learn to use a glue stick properly and hold a pencil the right way. I’ve tried to teach him how to hold a pencil but I haven’t had much luck.
The Spanish class for the older kids on Thursday went really well. I focused on colors and we used the color rope that Aunt Jackie made for me. The kids pretended they were blowing up a balloon and then we let go of the rope when the balloon “popped.” They got a big kick out of it. Isaac participated really well in the class today too—even though he kept interrupting me and asking if he could show everyone the plastic vampire teeth that he brought home from preschool.
Levi refused to take a nap on Thursday—I’m not used to this!!! He used to be the most regular napper in the world. I still put him in his bed for a while but he would not settle down. Needless to say he was a total basket case by the time seven o’clock in the evening rolled around.
I left Levi with MariaPaz Friday morning and took Isaac to the doctor’s office with me. Isaac is actually easy to have at the doctor’s office now—things are very different from when I used to dread taking him to appointments when I was prego with Levi. Now instead of running around and getting into everything he’ll actually sit with me and read stories, and make up silly stories with me like his favorite “mouse and the strawberry story.”
In the doctor’s office a nurse came into to check the baby’s heartbeart first and Isaac looked at her and said, “I don’t want that doctor mom, I want the take off your pants doctor!” He was referring to Dr.Prilou, but since he couldn’t remember her name, he just identified her by what she had had me do for the last visit—take of my pants in order to do a pap smear. The nurse was a bit confused and I was amused.
On Friday night after bathtime Isaac grabbed Levi’s hands and said “let’s do ring around the rosie!” They both did the whole ring around the rosie routine on the bed a few times and it was utterly adorable to hear them sing the song and do the dance together.
Levi is talking so much lately!! He’ll say, “Hey Isaac, wook (look) at dis (this)” and “not the big one, the little one!” (when referring to his desire for a smaller size of bottle). He can also say “Hi, I’m Levi!” He is at such an adorable stage.
While watching a Max and Ruby dvd on the computer that we got at the library—Isaac looked at Levi and said, “We get to watch Max and Ruby! I love you Levi” and Levi said, “I love you too Isaac!”
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