Love and Spice

Thursday, May 11, 2017

The Tooth Fairy and Hanging Out at Home

Adi loves helping out. He likes to set the table, to unload the dishwasher with me, and to sweep and vacuum. I can only hope this continues!

Now that the weather is nice again, we love hanging out with our neighbors and their dogs in their backyard. They have a great fire pit! :-)

One day in April it was so hot that we actually set up the pool for the guys so they could cool off. Since this day it's been about 50 and rainy nearly every day. We had nicer weather in February this year than in May so far.

Sebastian lost his first tooth at the beginning of April. It fell out at school in the middle of circle time. The new one is growing in and he has a second loose one now, too. The Tooth Fairy brought him $5. He was thrilled. Nothing loose on Adi yet.

Sebastian ate *three* full sized tacos as the new Mexican taco place in Stoughton. All of a sudden he loves tacos and burritos.

I don't know what this goofball was doing here.

These kids are nuts. I think they were pretending to be firemen if I remember correctly.

At the ENT doctor because he had fluid in his ears that was affecting his hearing. It's getting better so we are monitoring it. If the fluid doesn't go away and he has continued hearing loss, he'll need tubes again. Let's hope the fluid goes away.

At the end of April I spent 5 days in Kansas City for a conference. This was the view outside the hotel. I actually liked the city quite a bit.

I'm obviously not a food photographer, but I had the best food ever (homemade pastas and sauces) at Lidia Bastianich's Italian farmhouse restaurant in KC. Reasonably priced and awesome place!

Last weekend I let the boys puddle jump and run around and roll in the puddles. They had a great time having water wars. It tired them out and kept them occupied for a good 45 minutes.

Friday, March 24, 2017

Recent Shenanigans

First, some master builder Lego creations from Adi. My new dream is for him to work for Lego and take me with him to Denmark. The kid has talent as far as I'm concerned. He can whip these things up in 5 minutes. The symmetry is amazing. I honestly cannot do this at 37.

Last week we had one mild day...this March has been horrid weather wise. Cold, snowy--just gross. Was so nice to get the bike out and go for a walk!

Yesterday we had to go back to the estate lawyer to sign documents. So since Carlos needed to ask for time off anyway, we decided to take the boys with us and then have some adventures. So first we went to the lawyer. The boys were ANGELS--until it came to signing paperwork. Then they became antsy and kept interrupting. That part was frustrating. But, the lawyer took FOREVER to print all the paperwork (why not have it ready when we got there?!?!) so I can't really blame the boys. Anyway, they did pretty well considering.

Adi practiced his letters for a good half hour.

Sebastian drew a picture of the lawyer and of himself and waited patiently on the floor while she was upstairs printing documents so that he could present them to her when she came down. I also discovered he can write his full name when he effortlessly wrote it out on the drawing for the lawyer. Ok then. Good job, Creative World! He has 9 letters in his first name--poor kid--so I was impressed and happy I don't have to teach it to him!

After the lawyer, we took them to Saver's (just down the street) and were going to let them spend their gift cards from Tío Jim. But there was nothing.

Then we went to the South Shore Plaza to the Lego store and let them each pick something out. (Nothing too big!) Sebastian chose a set of three policeman minifigs from the Lego Batman movie and Adi chose a "gray storm trooper" set (Captain Phasma from Star Wars).

Then we had lunch at the Cheesecake Factory, thanks to a student who gave me a gift card.

Finally, we went to the Randolph cinemas and the boys saw their *first* movie at the theater. They loved the experience and the movie. Success!!! We basically had the theater to ourselves, too.