Pirate Pizza

Oct. 20-Oct. 26, 2008

I took Isaac to the dentist on Monday morning and they sent me back to the waiting room after they called him in. I didn’t expect him to last, but apparently he cooperated for the xrays and the teeth cleaning. Que milagro.
When Levi woke up on Tuesday morning, he ran up to James and said, “Papa, I found the spaceship book.”—it blows my mind that he is speaking full sentences now!! He is also the more polite kid you’ll ever meet. He’ll say “thankyou” and “you’re welcome” right on cue.
Going to the Science Museum on Tuesday mornings before preschool has become a new ritual for the boys and I. Isaac’s favorite thing is the ball toy in the kids science room and Levi loves looking at the images projected on the ceiling from the giant telescope in the space room.
Wednesday was Levi’s birthday!!!!! I really like that his birthday is close to Halloween because that way we can make it a costume party. We invited a bunch of friends to come over and had all of the kids dress up. It was very cute. Isaac and Levi were both pirates and they got such a kick out of running around the apartment and shouting “Arh matety” The kids danced to the elephant song, walk song, freeze song and we did some parachute games with them. That parachute I have for Spanish class comes in very handy for parties. Then I just cooked some frozen pizzas from Target and we all sang happy birthday and the kids devoured the brownie cupcakes. Levi was a very happy camper—especially because Jackson and Jordan gave him Lightning McQueen and Mater, his two favorite cars characters. Maria Paz gave him a Cars lunch box and Levi insisted on sleeping with the lunchbox with the two cars inside.
Thursday I felt like I was in slow motion all morning still recovering from Wednesday. The power went out in the afternoon so that made trying to prepare something for lunch pretty interesting. It made me realize that I need to be prepared with something more than granola bars and bread.
So I bit the bullet with Levi and told him that since he’s two years old, his bottle days are over. I put all of his bottle in a bag and hid them—for him and so that I won’t be tempted to give in and let him have one. He’s put up quite the fight, but I think he’s realizing that we’re serious. He still doesn’t want to drink his milk from a sippy cup but at least he consented to drinking it from a cup with a straw—he calls this “bubble milk.” His appetite for actual food has also been better too. His favorite things right now are green peppers, peanuts, popcorn, pasta, carrots, string cheese and frozen yogurt popsicles.
Isaac finally broke down and ate an apple—I’ve been telling him for about a week that he can’t have an after school treat until he eats some apple, and he’s just forgone the treat because he didn’t want to eat the apple. But finally this week he decided that apples are actually edible and he ate some. Hopefully he’ll keep this up since strawberry is the only other fresh fruit he eats (he loves dried fruit like raisins & craisins).
Spanish class on Thursday was awesome because I read the “Go Away Big Green Monster” book in English and Spanish. The kids loved it—especially because Isaac pretended to be a monster with his fake vampire teeth.
Thursday night Carrie invited us to go to the Aquarium to for a kids trick or treat activity. The boys loved trick or treating with the sharks, but Isaac did lose his pirate hat in all of the craziness.
Friday we went to the new Please Touch Museum (The Philly Children’s Museum) at Memorial Hall. The building that it’s in now if amazing. It feels so spacious and there are a lot more exhibits and stations to entertain the kids. Isaac’s favorite thing was the bull dozers that pick up plastic balls and Levi’s favorite thing was going shopping in the pretend supermarket. There’s also a carousel in the building that museum members can ride for free and the boys had huge smiles on their faces riding the horsies around the circle. Levi did have one major meltdown during the morning because the museum has several displays of toys behind glass (bad idea) for decoration and one of the displays is of all of the “Cars” vehicles and Levi just could not understand why he wasn’t able to play with them.
On Sunday Laura Nash took some family pics for us over at Logan Square by the fountain and we were treated to some great fall weather. The leaves changing on the trees right now are gorgeous too.
I was so tired Sunday night that I zonked out on the sofa after sitting down for a minute after putting the boys to bed—this kid in my tummy definitely makes staying on my feet more tiring than I’m used to.