Nov.10-Nov.16, 2008Jessica Larson took care of the boys Monday morning while I went to the dentist—the boys absolutely love the chance to get to play with other people’s toys. Charlton has a Woody toy the Isaac really wanted to take home and Levi wanted to leave with a handful of cars. My kids would make great shoplifters.
Levi can say sentences now like, “there’s something in my eye” and “fix it mom” and “are you tired?” he always amazes me with his ability to communicate. I also got him to say “gracias por la manzana” when Laura gave him an apple when we stopped by her apartment on Tuesday.
I read Isaac the story of Petite Rouge that my brother gave me and Isaac was very interested in the part where Petite Rouge gives the alligator hot sauce. Isaac has chapping around is mouth from biting his lip and being out in the cold and after reading the hot sauce part of the story he his convinced that I gave him hot sauce because he says his mouth burns like the alligator’s.
They put the Christmas tree up in our building and both of the boys think it looks magical. Isaac asked if it was Christmas Eve yet. I told him we had to wait for Thanksgiving first and he got pretty upset about that and said, “no I don’t want Thanksgiving—just Christmas!!”
Isaac: “Mom, remember in far away time when you stepped on my foot.”—I thought it was interesting that he came up with the term “far away time” to describe “a long time ago”
Levi must be going through a growth spurt because he’s been pounding a lot of food lately.
Friday morning I took the boys in for their first visit to the pediatrician here to get their flu shots and for Levi’s 2 year old check up. I was pleasantly surprised with their new pediatrician. She seems really thorough and it was nice to have a doctor that didn’t just rush in and out of the room.
James took the boys to the Children’s Museum on Saturday and when he was putting away some of the pretend food at the marketplace he heard a parent screaming, “whose child is this!!!” Apparently, Levi had a sharing crisis with a little girl and he ended up biting her arm and leaving teeth marks—not good. James felt pretty bad about it. Its tough with Levi because for the most part he plays really well with other kids, but he will bite when he gets really frustrated.
Saturday afternoon here was a last beautiful breath of summer. It was in the mid-sixties and I took the boys on a long walk down the Schukill River Trail. Isaac wanted to explore a spooky forest so we went off the trail in a couple of places to go “exploring” and crunch through the fall leaves. I really wish that I would have remembered to bring the camera because it was the last glorious day of fall and I didn’t get any pics of all of the natural beauty here. At least we’ll be here for one more autumn season. We went past the art musueum for the first time and over to a place called waterworks that has some nice lookouts over the river and a place where you can feed the ducks. There were a few wedding parties going on and Isaac asked me if we were in “wedding land.”
Levi can finish the words when we say a prayer in Spanish and his new favorite Spanish word is “tiburones.” He and Isaac love pretending to be crocodiles and sharks.
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