Familiy Pic gone astray

Chucky Cheese with Timo and Julia

August 13-August 19, 2007
Funny sentences is Spanish that Isaac has said this week while reading stories,”Quiere ir abajo del agua en un submarino y tocar el langosta” “Quiere tocar las langostas? Te van a pelliscar “el pulpo quiere comer pastel pero no comes la vela—es fuchi!”
Isaac’s favorite books of the week “Dora and the submarine” and “Ernie’s big mess” He loves the submarine book—especially the pictures of the big red lobsters. He can’t pronounce lobster very well and says “wobster” Pretty funny.
Levi got a big owie on his lip when he fell down on the sidewalk outside church on Sunday and it was taking forever to heal because the wound kept reopening. Finally we put some liquid bandaid on it and that definitely did the trick. It looks a million times better now.
Isaac likes to say “dame cariño” and “time for family snuggles.” It’s become a tradition now that we do family snuggles on the “thinking chair” (couch) and then do family prayer.
At the grocery store Isaac asked if we could go look at the “not today cakes” I thought that that was hilarious because he came up with that since James tells him “not today” when he asks for sweet stuff at the store.
Overhead from Isaac this week, “when you woke up you can do family snuggles” and after bonking his head on something “that smarts! He look I’m a Larry-go-round”
I took care of my friend Heather’s little 2 year old named Leandro for most of the week so I got a taste of what its like to have 3 boys. Luckily Leandro is pretty mellow. He loves eating lots of chicken nuggets and running around with a superman cape. He actually plays really well with Levi. They had a blast playing peek a boo in the little blue IKEA tunnel that we have.
Tim and Julia treated our family to a night at Chucky Cheese for their farewell party this week. It was very cool of them and the boys went crazy running around the mouse palace. Isaac made some mischief by carrying skee balls over to another game and clogging up the other system. Levi liked sitting on the air hockey table. Afterwards Isaac’s favorite part was setting his chucky cheese balloons free—right outside the door, he couldn’t wait for the rush of adrenaline he gets when he sees balloons float up into the sky.



August 20-26, 2007I was reading a story with Isaac and I asked him to look at a group of purple objects and find the thing you could sit on. I pointed to some grapes and asked of those were for sitting and he said, “no, those are for eating, “ then I pointed to a purple flower and he said, “no that’s for giving for momma” then I pointed to a chair and he said “yeah mom!” I thought that his flower commentary was really cute. He likes giving flowers to his momma.Levi toddles all over the place and is very vocal. He’s always making new sounds and has some very dynamic jabber going on. He says ball really well and he’s starting to make the sign language sign for milk.We went to Chucky Cheese for playgroup this week and Isaac was overjoyed with the opportunity to set a couple more balloons free. Isaac is obsessed with the word “bonk” this week. “He wants to bonk his head!”Levi is still Mr. kitchen scavenger. He absolutely loves finding pieces of food on the little blue table where Isaac eats.

August 2007

August 1-August 7, 2007
On Sunday Levi said his first word (besides mama) and it was. . .you guessed it, “ball.” Yep. Just the same as his brother. James was playing with him and he said something that sounded pretty close to ball.
Levi is definitely into toddler mode now. He wants to walk all over the place and he does. Goodbye crawling. He can stand up by himself in the middle of the room
Isaac actually went pee pee in the toilet while standing up after bath time today and then said, “Mom now I Have to go shopping for the Swiper book” “Mama quiero el libro de swiper.”
“Levi no swiping” –this is Isaac’s new way of telling Levi not to grab his toys
My friend Carmen came and watched Isaac and Levi this week and I told to speak only in Spanish to him make him practice. She slipped and asked him “Queires apple juice?” and he said “No, Carmen--Quiero jugo de manzana” I thought that that was pretty funny.
We did a lot more swimming this week. Isaac is an underwater animal—he likes holding the green floatie and kicking now too. Levi’s is happy to splash around but he prefers to escape from the pool and toddle around exploring things.




















August 8—August 12, 2007This week at HEB one of the worker’s named Omar gave Isaac a red balloon and Isaac was on cloud nine. He kept wanting to go back to the store and get more balloons from “Amor”—he can’t pronounce “Omar” correctly and calls him “Amor” hee hee Isaac is definitely in the “I can do it myself” stage. He wants to try to put on his own clothes and car seat buckle. He’ll say “Isaac can do it herself” Swimming at Brenda’s pool—Isaac had an awesome time in their baby pool.Isaac comes up with cute sentences en Spanish lately. I asked him “donde esta el libro” and he said “esta abajo de las escaleras”Our neighbor named Hanako has a sister named Suzako who was visiting with her daughter Samantha who is Isaac’s age and we had a lot of fun hanging out with them this week. Isaac called Suzako “Snoozako” which was pretty cute.I took the boys to Andrea’s birthday party on Saturday and almost got a ticket for following a car the wrong way through a detour. Luckily the police had bigger fish to fry. It was pretty scary though. We finally made it to the birthday party and Isaac was in heaven with all of the balloons. We brought 4 of them home and the first thing he wanted to do was go home and set them all free. Starting on August 9th Levi is an official walker. He rarely crawls and just stands up and starts toddling around. Very cute

Swinging Boys

Levi plays croquet

Levi Walks

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