October 2007

Oct. 1-Oct.7, 2007
I trained Levi to throw his diapers in the garbage on Thursday. It takes a little coaxing, but he’ll actually do it and then does a happy dance when he’s done and I praise him.
Isaac stumped me tonight when he wanted to learn a bunch of landscaping vocabulary in Spanish. He said, “how do you say lawn mower, leaf blower, and weed wacker in Spanish?” I had to call James (he was out of town) for technical vocab support.
We’ve had a not so good week in potty training land with Isaac. He pooped in his pants twice at school which didn’t thrill his teachers. All I can say is that we’re working on it.
Levi absolutely loves playing outside. He’s very interested in the grass, rocks, dirt, trees, and anything he can touch. He’s tried to eat dirt a few times, but he’s gotten better about the putting everything in his mouth.
Levi likes making the sign for “up” and he can also make the “p” sound for “up” and he also loves fish and will make the “sh” sound for fish.

Oct.8-Oct.14, 2007
Isaac’s favorite book right now is called “Tito the Firefighter.” He loves reading about the firetruck racing down the street to the scene of the fire. He always asks me what a fire truck says and loves to hear my siren sound effects. Levi has heard us talk about it so much that if you ask him what a firetruck says he’ll go “woo! Woo! Woo!”
I’ve had a cold this week and so its been hard sometimes to have the energy to keep my house clean and manage my kids. Luckily James has been in town all week and he took the kids to the gym a few times to give me a break.
Levi’s new favorite thing is bubbles. He squeals with delight when we blow bubbles and he really tries to say the word “buh-buhls.” Its pretty cute.
Isaac is finally starting to be consistent about using first person instead of third person to talk about himself. He’ll say “why am I being naughty?” and if he’s feeling angelic, “I want to kiss baby Levi”
Isaac has now pooped 3 times at school and his teachers have kind of lost their patience with it. They say that he can stay through the end of October, but then I’ll have to pull him out at the end of the month. It’s not the end of the world, but its definitely a bummer.

Se casaron!

Oakland Temple

More wedding pics

Jenny and Freddy!

Full of Personality

Sept.17-Sept.23
Levi really loves being outside and he’ll stand by the door like a cat waiting to be let out. His favorite thing lately is to ride on his little red car and play with the croquet mallets. The funny thing is that he can actually hit the balls around—maybe he’s destined to be a croquet champion.
I went out of town on Thursday night to go to Oakland, CA for my sister’s wedding and James stayed here to take care of the boys. It was great to see Jenny and finally meet Fredy. He’s a really cool guy and a perfect match for my sister. The trip was a really nice break for me, and a good learning experience for James (he said that he’d always appreciated what I did, but he definitely appreciates me A LOT more now.)
Isaac has regressed on the potty training momentum. I think when I went out of town he stopped doing “potty power” as a form of protest.

Sept.24-Sept.30, 2007
Levi is getting really good at doing the sign for milk and he does his own version of the sign for light. In fact, light is his new favorite thing—especially the ability to control light, yep, he’s obsessed with light switches. He loves the powerful feeling of turning on and off lights. He’ll stand and whine under the switches until you lift him up.
Levi is a great veggie eater. He actually loves broccoli. Unfortunately, Isaac still tries to huck anything green off of his plate. I wasn’t so successful in turning Isaac into a veggie lover. I have to sneak veggies into his food. Tomato sauce is my secret weapon ( I like to blend in lots of sautéed veggies like zuchinni, squash, and green peppers that he would never eat alone).
So we had a little incident on Monday. . .I had put Levi down for his afternoon nap and I was letting Isaac watch a movie while I crashed and took a nap because I had stayed up way too late the night before. I woke up to the kitchen floor being flooded and poop floating in the water. Not a pretty sight. I had to get every towel in the house to mop in up and I was so mad at Isaac that I took the TV and put it in “time out” in the closet. The T.V. has stayed there all week.
Isaac always wants to affirm that in December we’re going to the airport to see our family. Its really cute when he tells me in Spanish “En diciembre vamos al aeropuerto y vamos a subir en el cielo en un avion.”
Levi tripped over a croquet mallet outside on Saturday and scraped up his nose and forehead pretty bad. At least he didn’t split his lip again.
I got Isaac a little people garage set as a reward for getting potty training stars and he’s absolutely obessed with it right now. He loves the elevator and the slide. He also named one of the little people Aunt Julia Barclay and another one Uncle JoJo which is pretty darn cute.