Dec. 1-Dec.7, 2008
The book of the week has definitely been Max and Ruby’s ABC’s. Both of the boys love it because its not your standard ABC book—it uses the alphabet letters to tell the story of Max’s ants escaping from the ant farm and how Max and Ruby try everything to escape the ants. Its actually pretty funny.
We went to the Please Touch Muesum on Monday morning with Kim and Carrie and their boys and if was fun—except for when I briefly lost both boys in the Alice in Wonderland section. There are so many mazes and dividers over there that its hard to see where they are.
Isaac wanted to write a letter to Santa Claus so he wrote out all of the letters of Santa’s name and then I helped him make a list of what he wanted which included:
1. a watering can for a beanstalk
2. magic powder to make the beanstalk grow
3. a pretend gumball machine from Target
4. a new Max and Ruby dvd
5. a new Spanish storybook
6. new paints for painting
7. that’s enough
Thanks to James coming up with the idea of eating string cheese on a fork, the boys now both insist on eating string cheese with a fork and calling it “silly cheese”
Levi loves to eat bananas and green peppers whole. He does not like it if I cut them and hey—who can complain if that’s what he’s eating. Isaac on the other hand has decided he’s allergic to the smell of vegetables and it drives me nuts.
Wednesday morning Rachel Jackson invited us over to celebrate Maggie’s birthday and the kids had a blast decorating and eating Christmas cookies. There was also pizza and veggies and Isaac kept saying, “mom, this is the best party ever!” The boys actually woke up super early and wanted to go over to the party right after breakfast, but I took them on a detour to the Please Touch Museum. I’m SO glad that it opens at 9 o’clock instead of 10 like everywhere else. It’s really nice to have a place to take the kids early in the morning when we just need to get out. Today they spent most of the time in the art room and Isaac and Levi painted and mixed colors with cue tips.
Levi has discovered whip cream and he can’t get enough of the stuff.
For Spanish class on Thursday we did Kool-aid playdough and practiced the names of shapes in Spanish. We also did the caminar song and Levi and Isaac had fun dancing with Shrey. I taught everyone the Corre Caballo song and Levi kept asking for “mas caballo”—I think we probably did it about 5 times.
For book club we discussed The Book Thief and it was a pretty amazing book—I didn’t actually finish it yet, but it is told in one of the most creative formats I’ve ever read (the narrarator is death). It’s also a great book for learning about World War II history. Mostly it was fun just to have a girls night out and have James put the boys to bed.
The boys have been rocking out with their homemade band instruments lately. They look so cut playing instruments together. Their favorite song right now is “You got a friend in me” from the Toy Story soundtrack. Isaac tries to sing along with the lyrics, but it’s funny to hear what his version of the words are sometimes. For example, instead of “You’ve got problems and I’ve got ‘em too,” Isaac will say—“You’ve got problems and I gotta toot.”
Friday morning –the boys insisted on going to the zoo even though it was a pretty chilly day. We had the whole place to ourselves except for the school groups that were there. Luckily the crocodile/reptile house was warm and cozy and so was the treehouse so we spent most of our time in those to places. There was also a peacock wandering around outide that the boys befriended and dubbed “Mr. Peacock.” Isaac really wanted to take him home with us.
Isaac is still intent on getting a little sister. When I reminded him that he was getting another little brother he said, “but mom, where’s the door in your tummy so that a sister can get in there too.”
I took Isaac to his first “drop off” b-day party on Saturday. It was really weird to drop him off at a party and not have to stick around to watch him. It was a Transformer theme party for one of the kids, Griffin, in his preschool class and he had a blast.
The boys started spontaneously playing Ring Around the Rosie with each other on Sunday night during bath time. It was uncontrollably cute. It is so fun to see them playing together more now and really communicating with each other.
Major food break through with Isaac—I’m being more strict about making him try new things and finish his food even if he says he doesn’t like it. Tonight I made a chicken/rice dish for the boys and Isaac didn’t want it but I told him he couldn’t have anything else to eat until he finished his small bowl. After 2 hours he finally finished it, but not without ALOT of whining.
Dec. 15-21, 2008
