Jack woke up this morning just as Joe Biden was being sworn in. He ate a banana chocolate chip muffin he and Olivia helped make yesterday and continued to watch with me up until Obama was sworn in and then went to play Spider-man3 on xbox.
Olivia woke up about 12:30 and chattered away about playing Viva Pinata the night before. She earned a new pinata and has 5 helpers now helping her with her garden. She’s taking really good care of it and it’s getting quite large. She also had a banana chocolate chip muffin and then another while she cut out the letters: O B A M A, decorated them red and blue and taped them to the wall. Our kids are kind of political in their own little ways and they also really love tape.
I talked to Jack about spending a few minutes a day working on his speech. He groaned and grinned at the same time. He knows that sometimes it’s hard to understand him, but he says he’s fine with that and that talking normal is boring. Gotta love that kid.
They both wanted Thai for dinner. We ordered panang curry and the waitress suggested we not get that for the kids because even ordered mild it’s spicy. We ordered it anyway and they both had seconds. When Olivia was a little nursling she would refuse baby food but would eat spinach paneer at Indian restaurants and Jack shakes Tabasco on his pizza. My kids can handle the spicy.
While we were waiting for our food a song came on and Jack said, “Oh this is from Rock Band.” Olivia was very quick to correct him, “No Jack, it’s Taylor Swift.” Then she gave me a big grin and swayed to the music in her chair smug in her music knowledge.
After dinner we stopped at Game Dude. Olivia got Zoo Tycoon and Jack got Lego StarWars II: The Original Trilogy. They were both flippin’ thrilled. We looked at Wii games and all agreed: WE CAN NOT WAIT TO GET THE Wii! But wait we will. We need more space for it .. soon. soon. soon.
Next stop: the drug store. BubbleBerry is the only flavor of toothpaste they will use and we were out. Olivia added a Pink Lemonaid Lip Smackers to her growing collection and Jack had fun walking with the canes. He asked why people use them and when I told him he said he needed a cane because sometimes his leg is sore and he can’t put any weight on it. That was news to me. We did not buy the cane, sometimes I do say no.
