Popsicles with Jackie

Saturday afternoon, we headed over to the Wiseman residence for a barbeque and some fun with friends.  After playing in the pool and the water slide, the boys had a nice dinner with Jack.  John ate all his food while Nicholas enjoyed his french fries.  Jack ate much like Nicholas as well, so it's not just Nicholas.  In any event.  They all enjoyed popsicles after dinner.  John specifically chose to take over some "firecracker" pops.  Back in the day, we called them BOMB POPS!!  As you can see, Nicholas chose to eat a Big Stick.  I'll give you one guess why he chose the Big Stick.  Yes, it's orange.

Gueritos

Saturday morning, we headed out to Northgate Market to pick up some tortillas since John liked the tortillas from there (he had them at a friends house).  As we get there, they notice that everyone is speaking in Spanish, so John starts whining about not liking it there because everyone was speaking Spanish.  As we move deeper into the store toward the hot foods, both he and Nicholas start to complain about the smell.  They are quite delicate like that.  Anywho, it just continued to go downhill from there and Maureen was mortified by their behavior.

On the plus side, they noticed that there is a better selection of flavored Danimals products there, so they want to go back for that.  We told them they asked us never to bring the Gueritos back to the store because they swere so disruptive.  Maureen and I gave them a stern talking to about their behavior and attitude.  John said that he'd behave.  Nicholas said that he'd behave the same way.  Oh well, I suppose we should just take them there every week until they get used to it.

They also like the fresh assortment of pan dulce that the bakery had and the Bimbo muffins that I gave them.

Pescaditos

Many years ago when I was about their age, we took a trip to Cancun.  Neither my brother, Robert, or I could swim, so we just stayed on the steps of the pool and clung to the side.  On a lark, I decided to take the plunge and try to swim.  I looked much like these two little scamps as the scissor kick in the water.  Nicholas took to it immediately, but it took John a little time to warm up to it.

Star Spangled Wake Up

John decided to give us his rendition of the Star Spangled Banner this morning as he woke up.  There's no video, but there is great sound.

Fun at the Turtle Pond Park

After running some errands today, we decided that it would be a good day to go to the Turtle Pond Park on 8th Street.  It's a hidden gem of a tiny park because it always seems to be empty.  It has two see saws, a slide, and three swings.  The boys love going there because they like the older seventies-style apparati.  In particular, they love the slide because we'll let them walk up the slide if no one else is around.  Why do they like this?  Well, at school, you are not allowed to walk up the slide.  Sometimes, these boys take a bit of slide down the slide as they try to walk up.  They sometimes forget about the force of gravity like some cartoon characters.

John asked if we could have a picnic at this park, but we decided against it today.  Normally, there aren't too many kids in the park, but for some reason, it was packed today.  Nicholas had a little trouble sharing his sand toys with some of the other little boys that wanted to play and a nice boy named Shlomo was more than happy to pal around with John on the see saw and the swings.  Thankfully, all went well and the boys had a great time.  They actually even listened to us when it was time to go.  I was quite pleased with that!

Playing with Marv

The boys were downstairs playing with their water guns earlier this week when a neighbor came down withher dog Marvin aka Marv.  Sure enough, Marv was a pleasant little dog.  He ran up to me and started to lick my hand.  As always with dogs, the boys were scared at first, but they warmed up pretty quickly to Marv.  He started chasing them and then when he was tired they'd chase him.  It was a fun 10-minutes while Marv stretched his legs and went to the bathroom.

John Always Wants to Help

As we left the restaurant after breakfast with Mami and Papi, I jokingly told John to push Papi's wheel chair. Wouldn't you know it?  He did it all the way from the restaurant to the car.  That boy has a good heart.  Strangers have told us that and this just proves it even more!