Me Llamo Isaac

First Day of Preschool- his booty from school in hand. What a proud boy!

This is outside our house with said booty. He loves playing out here with all the rocks, dirt and cool foliage. We wait til late afternoon when it's in the shade and then spend sometime digging and making "hot bean casserole soup" Not sure where he got that one, but it seems to be his favorite. Oh, and green bean juice is the new juice of choice. He'd probably welcome them both!

So, reason for the espanol title- my kid needs to learn to be bilingual. No, we do not *know* anyone who speaks spanish yet, but, well, let me explain...

As you may have guessed, there are a lot of Spanish speakers around. We often will hear it spoken when we are out shopping, etc. One day, not long after the move, we hear Isaac speaking total jibberish- I- Innocently- ask him what he is saying, to which he replies-"I'm a speakin' a Spanish!" Oh. Dear. So, fast forward a few days. We are at the mall escaping the 120 degree heat. ouch! As mommy is looking at some REALLY cute clothes, Ike happens to be PRIVY to a conversation in REAL SPANISH between two ladies. Well, he gets up close to them, looks them in the eyes and JIBBERJABBERS with a straight face as if he knew exactly what they said and they would know what he was saying! AHH! It came off like he was making fun of Spanish speakers (good thing he is young)! And we hurried away POORLY PRETENDING that we didn't know what our kid had just done! Oh. My. Thus, we are teaching him REAL SPANISH. Of course, now he is arguing with us... "No momma, casa doens't mean house, hochubala means house!" Crazy kid!

Funny pic- Zachary is clearly Ben and my offspring inheriting a LOVE, a NEED for cookies! Do you see him eyeing that cookie? Just waiting for his chance to take a big ol' chunk out of it? MMM! I'm with you Zachary- look out Ike- a few more months and you'll have to eat your cookies MUCH faster or someone is going to take care of them for you!! Also, notice Zach's collar is full of DROOL! I know, how can you not drool at that cookie?

Today marked Isaac's first day of school (not real school, Joy School- a little mommy coop). Anyway, it's only once a week and we switch between five of our houses, so in a few weeks in will be my turn to host and teach. It was harder than I thought it

would be to let him go! I kept thinking, what am I going to do for TWO HOURS without Isaac? So, I went home sullen, while he was SUPER EXCITED! I worked on my talk for Sunday. He painted, made a cool picture frame and chilled with four really cute other kiddos. It's going to be great for him. He already LOVES it! Mom's going to have to get used to it! I think I'll start planning some shopping- much easier to lug around just Zachy.

Finally getting some good pics of Zach giggling- for some reason I cannot seem to download videos on blogger so, you'll have to use your imaginations!

Cooking with Momma This afternoon... Whoops, notice the knife I left next to my toddler... good thing he's not mischievious at all!