Recent Convos

Our computers died a while back, hence no posting.
But here's a couple of our recent conversations...


Tavish had brought home some pamphlets from church and was looking at them while we were driving in the car, which led to him asking questions about heaven...
Me: Heaven is way up high above the clouds, higher than an airplane could fly.
Tavish: (excited) I know how we could get there, we could get pixie dust and sprinkle it all over the car and the car could fly up to heaven with us in it!!!


Another day we were talking about naps, Tavish fights taking a nap now but he still needs them and I really need them.
Me: You need to take naps because when you don't you are really grumpy and that makes me grumpy.
Tavish: It makes you grumpy? And then you go like this (he makes a big sighing sound)??? And then everyone is grumpy??
Me: You got it.

Trainspotting

We had plans for this past weekend that went a little awry...

We were supposed to go to Pittsburgh to see our friends and were planning on leaving early in the morning...yes 7am counts as very early for me.

At 4am we hear the patter of little feet and the cry "Uncle Tom!" (he had put him to bed the night before for us), "come in here" we say, and in he comes followed by a trail of puke. Did I mention we have white carpet??? And Uncle Tom usually feeds Tavish Nutella when unsupervised??? You get the visual.

So Saturday was spent vomiting and cleaning up vomit (Rafal is a master carpet cleaner). Sunday the puking was over and we slept way in *smile* so we went for a little walk along the trail near our house to get some fresh, non-puke scented air. Part of the trail goes over the freeway so we got to do a little trainspotting...

We were lucky because we caught two trains, one going in either direction, which is pretty exciting when you are three and still not feeling great.

And for the record...Rafal got sick Monday, then Uncle Tom and I on Tuesday.
Please let's be done so we can enjoy the 70 degree weather this week!

A Grand Day Out

Tavish and I had a free day today, so we set off for an adventure.
Unlike Wallace and Gromit, it did not involve going to the moon for cheese, but we did go to the moon, sort of...

We went to the Air and Space Museum! Here we are waiting for the show to start in the planetarium. They have a great show for kids where Big Bird and Elmo travel to the moon and teach a little about stars. Tavish was sufficiently impressed and cutely excited.

We saw rockets and got to tour the Skylab.

We saw lots of airplanes and learned a little about lift and drag.

After we were done at the museum we rode the carousel on the mall...there seems to be a dragon theme lately...

And stopped for ice cream on the way home...Tavish requested green ice cream.

And this is what green ice cream looks like on your tongue.


We really did have a grand day out...Tavish did really well and it made me excited for more adventures in the future!

Build-A-

Dragon!

Rafal got it in his head that we should take Tavish to the Build-A-Bear Workshop. So off we went one Saturday morning...


First up, you pick out which animal you want to "build". Tavish picked a dragon...I thought he was supercute :)




Then you get to "own" him. Tavish wanted to name him Tavish, Rafal suggested Fireball, so his name is Tavish-Fireball.




Next you stuff him...Tavish got to push the stuffing pedal all by himself.




Then you put his heart in and the girl sews him up.




Finally you take him over to the tub and "wash" him to fluff up his fur. This is where I'm glad to have a boy because if you have a girl and they pick a girly animal, at this point you then have to go and pick out an outfit and shoes and fairy wands and lots of other $$$$ stuff for the thing. Dragons don't need fairy wands and tutus :)




Then you make a birth certificate, mom and dad pay for it and you have a happy boy with his very cute dragon.

Until you get home and he sees the advertisement in the bag with pictures of other animals you can build and he sees the pink and purple polka dotted bunny and throws a fit that he wants to trade his dragon in for that one instead.... *sigh*

Silver Lining

The flood was rough.
Gutting the house sucked.
Being displaced was slightly nerve-wracking.
But, with most things, there was a silver lining...many actually.
Here's one of them....

The Cool House, so named by Tavish the first time we went and looked at it. I liked it so much (I never like any houses we look at) we bought it. And moved in. And we LOVE it. I never want to move again (sorry Sarah).


To celebrate Rafal's cousin Anita came down from NYC and we had a "windowsill party", the Polish version of a housewarming party. It involves lots of drinking and then more drinking. I actually didn't know we were having one until we were in the middle of it...I think Uncle Tom was just happy to have someone to drink with :) And isn't crazy how the orange-checkered couches match the blinds in the house??? it was meant to be...of course neither one are staying...

Birthday Season

I thought once the holidays were over it was going to be pretty boring around here...turns out this has been birthday season! Tavish has been to a kitty party, a Chuck E. Cheese party (aka Chunk'N'Cheese in Tavishese) and a fireman party held in an actual fire station! Even I got to go to a girls night out birthday party...

Not yet...

Pretty much on a daily basis, Tavish asks if we can go to the beach...


Not yet buddy.

I explained how we can't go to the beach until it's summertime, sunny and warm, and we can wear shorts. So now every time it's sunny out he asks "is it summertime yet?"