Nuttall Family Pics: Logan Square 2008

Our good friend Laura Nash took some great family pics for us in October that I'm finally getting around to posting! The Logan Square fountains are just a couple blocks from our apartment and in the summer the kids had fun walking around in the water. The fountains have been turned off for winter now, but the kids can still run around and play where the water used to be.

Leaf Power

Fun at the fountain

Logan Square Family Pics

We like to boogie

Last day of music class this semester with Mr. John--good times.

Short week

Dec. 15-21, 2008
Monday, Monday. Lately on Monday mornings we’ve been going to the Please Touch Museum and it’s a good time to go because there are no school groups then. Levi loves running over to the rocket ship section and looking for the Buzz Lightyear toy that they have hanging from the ceiling. Today there was a new airplane exhibit for older kids and Isaac thought it was amazing because he could pedal with his feet and go up and down on an airplane ride (it’s just like the one at Chucky Cheese in Houston)

The boys also really enjoy playing in the art room at the museum and getting to paint with paint brushes to their heart’s content. Isaac has finally moved on from painting rainbows and now his new thing is apple trees. Levi is into swirling together as many colors as possible and getting really messy.

This was the last week of music classes with Mr. John through WKC. It’s been a fun distraction on Monday afternoons. Isaac really gets a kick out of dancing with the colors and playing instruments. Levi usually likes running around to the music, but he fell asleep on the way to class and I had to wake him up so he was Mr. Grumpapotomus the whole time.

On Tuesday morning Kim McKay came over and we swapped cribs—she’s going to lend us a bedside portacrib that we can use for the new baby and we’re lending her our bigger portacrib that she can use with her baby who is now about 8 months old.

The boys wanted to make Christmas cookies to give to their friends this week and I like cooking with them because its good language practice—we’ll say the ingredients in English and Spanish and then their favorite song to sing while they mix it up is “bate bate chocolate”

Miraculously Isaac is not afraid of the beater anymore. He’ll climb up on the chair and help turn on the beater and then stand there for a while to mix things up.

Levi will just sit with a pile of books around him and “read”—its so fun to watch him turn the pages and repeat phrases that he knows from the stories.

Wednesday morning I drove all of my boys to the airport to send them off to Utah for a few days. I can’t travel because I’m 35 weeks pregnant, but I really needed a break and my cousin Lori gave me the idea of having James take the boys on a trip without me. I miss them a ton, but it will be very nice to “nest,” rest, and get ready for the baby.

Santa and Cookies

Sugar week

Dec. 8-Dec. 14, 2008

We went to an LDSSA Christmas party on Monday night over at the Sorenson’s house and it was a great turn out. One of the single guys dressed up as Santa Claus and came down to the playroom and divvied out candy canes to all of the kids. Isaac and Levi were in heaven.

For the last day of ASL/Spanish class, the moms in the class got together and gave me a $50 gift certificate to Barnes and Nobles. That was really cool of them. I’ll miss doing the class next semester, but I’m sure I’ll also be pretty overwhelmed with baby number three.

Levi has learned the word “borrow” from Isaac and today when we visited Collin, he wanted to “borrow” Collin’s toy car—“can I borrow this Collin?” It amazes me how clearly he asks for things now.

The boys watch Toy Story 2 in Spanish so now they can say “Al infinito, y mas alla!”—gotta love those super hero phrases.

Wednesday morning the boys were beside themselves with excitement because it was the big day of Jordan’s birthday party. They had fun making gingerbread houses, eating pizza and playing with all of their toys.

It was rainy and cold on Thursday morning but we braved the weather to go check out Isaac’s elementary school for next year. It’s supposed to be one of the best public elementary schools in the city. I was really hoping he would get into a really cool Spanish immersion charter school called Independence Charter but we didn’t do so hot in the lottery—I called yesterday and they told me that we were number 250 on the waiting list. Ay caramba. I guess there are a lot of people trying to get into that school.

Isaac asked me tonight why there are so many different Santa Clauses. . .he’s starting to catch on pretty quick. I told him that Santa needs a lot of helpers and he was half way satisfied with that answer. Then he wanted to know if he could call Santa on my cell phone and ask for a snowboard for Christmas.

Levi is getting good at his colors in Spanish—when he says “azul” it makes me laugh because he sticks his lips out and its pretty cute.

Saturday we had a big Wharton Kids Club Christmas party at our place and the Nash’s. We started things out down here with cookie decorating and crafts for the kids and then after an hour everyone shifted upstairs for pics with Santa and Marina’s Russian gift on a rope game. Amazingly, it worked out great and there were no major mishaps. Isaac poured half of the bottle of sprinkles on one of his sugar cookies and both of the boys were on a major sugar high most of the night.

Ahwww. . .

Meet Mr. Peacock

Isaac and Levi have a new buddy at the zoo that they have dubbed "Mr. Peacock." The boys really wanted him to come home with us, but before I had to explain why he couldn't, Mr. Peacock made it easy on me and flew over the fence to chat with the Giant Galapagos Tortoises.

Zoo time

I love this pic with Isaac on one side and the squirrel on the other. Mostly, I'm amazed that the squirrel is actually in the pic because he was moving pretty fast.






The tiger looked like he wanted to play ball with the boys. . .