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.