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Dylan lights his menorah
I have to admit, Chanukkah caught me by surprise, but luckily, Dylan’s first Chanukkah present — a wooden Chanukkah set, complete with nine candles, a menorah, 6 gelts, a dreidel, a frying pan, spatula and two latkes — arrived in time and he clearly loves it
It’s the cutest thing. He now knows how to “light” the candles and blow them out and he says the word “latke!”
it’s potty time
Dylan has been saying “pee pee” and “poo poo” and patting the front of his diaper for a few weeks now. The few times that he’s done this, I’ve attempted to get him to the toilet ASAP but, of course, by the time we get there, the deed’s already been done.
I think a big factor in his interest in the potty is seeing Taliana use her’s (and the big potty) when she needs to Go!
Heather has been encouraging Taliana to encourage Dylan and at Taliana’s birthday party last night, when she needed to potty, she said, “Ok Dylan. I’ll show you…” and he followed her to the bathroom! Once she was finished (all the while she was explaining that you go potty in here and then, see, it goes in there and then you flush it, etc. etc.), Dylan came over and sat down on it for a while!
We see this as a promising sign — though who knows how long it will actually take for any real progress to be made — so he’s getting a potty package (book, potty and potty DVD) for Chanukah this year.
Ok. Potty talk aside, we did celebrate Taliana’s 3rd bday yesterday with a trip to the museum and a nice dinner at HAT’s house….Plenty o’ pictures on flickr….
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"I got me a dragon!"
Dylan doesn’t always sit still at story time, but this past week, he was pretty good! I think he was a little on the sleepy side, so he spent a lot of time cozying up on my lap and listening….Of course, he still browsed the shelves, but he was so much mellower than he was last week (though, the librarian said he was “sooo much fun”! Yes, she’s very nice!).
After Dylan received his dragon cut-out from her at the end of the session, he came running back to me to show me (yes, he’s very sweet!)!
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my chai date with Dylan
Tom left his car in San Jose all Tgiving weekend and we all slept through the morning alarm on Monday, so Dylan and I had to drive Tom to the downtown bus station so he could take the 17 Express over the hill. I still forget how long it can take to get Dylan ready and gather up his things! We got there just as the bus was supposed to leave and Tom had to make a run for it! Luckily, the bus driver saw him running just as he was pulling away, so Tom just made it on the bus….
Since we were already in the car and out and about, I decided it would be nice to grab a snack and much needed caffeine (for me!) before taking Dylan to Together in the Park.
After not much deliberation, we ended up at Black China Bakery. I had chai and Dylan had warm soymilk and we split the cranberry scone and the shortbread cookie.
He was quite the charmer, saying hi and bye to the other customers and, of course, posing for the camera….
Moments like these, I wish I had a higher quality cameraphone….!
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a day with daddy
Dylan clearly had a good day with daddy…! And, he’s mastered his camera smile…!
Tom and Dylan went to the Children’s Discovery Museum while I went shopping with Heather!
He didn’t sack out beforehand, as planned (apparently, he threw a fit when I left the car), so he was out cold at 3pm, around the time H. and I stopped for a bite to eat. So, Tom brought the sleeping Dylan to CPK and joined us for lunch, and we ended up finishing up the shopping trip all together.
a cold day at the park
Thanksgiving Day weekend was a welcome reprieve from the workweek, but we had plenty to keep us busy at home, too (chores, chores, chores!). But, since the weather was pleasant and Dylan was his usual antsy-pantsy self, we headed outdoors for some Jamba Juice and a little park time on Saturday.
He got into a little possessive battle with another little tot over the digger (he’s definitely doing the “miiiine” thing now…), but it was an otherwise uneventful excursion! More photos are here.
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gobble gobble
It was a busy, busy, deadline-oriented work week for both Tom and me, but we miraculously managed to get all of our cooking done in time! This year, we divvied up the cooking responsibilities and Tom and I were responsible for bringing the sweet potatoes, cornbread and the vegan tofurkey. We also made a couple of different vegan cupcakes — apple cider with vegan buttercream frosting and pumpkin chocolate chip with cinnamon icing — and a vegan pumpkin pie.
Cindy and mom contributed the brussel sprouts, cranberry sauce and the other non-vegan foods (you know, turkey, stuffing, etc. etc.).
It was a nice, relaxing Thanksgiving with all-day noshing and a little bit of game playing (Last Word and Mad Gab).
As usual, Dylan was supercute in his red plaid shirt and white overalls, and as usual, he had an absolute blast. Unfortunately, he also wanted to play with light sabers!!
We realize that we’re going to have to keep a much closer eye on Dylan at family parties, now that he has become such a climber. Stairs, tables, chairs — there are no heights he won’t attempt to scale, no peaks he won’t attempt to reach. And the main problem isn’t getting up — it’s getting down. He doesn’t really know how to get down (climbing, not dancing). I remember a scene from an old Steven Bochco cop show from the ’80s (NYPD Blue?) in which a prankster led a cow up to the top story of a tenement building and the police couldn’t make the cow go back down. After much pushing and pulling of the cow to no effect, a homeless man who lived in the stairwell informed the police that cows “ain’t got no ‘down’ genes. They got ‘up’ genes, but no ‘down’ genes.” I think of that scene every time Dylan gets stuck on the stairs (or on a chair or table). He’s got “up” genes, but he ain’t got no “down” genes yet. (Sometimes, when he is being watched, he can be induced to go down on stomach or butt, but mostly he hurtles himself face-first into the void.)
The problem is that Dylan wanted to spend most of the day in the upstairs playroom, and if either of his mostly attentive parents turned away for a nanosecond to frost a cupcake or pop a tofurkey in the oven, Dylan would disappear in a puff of smoke, toddle rapidly toward the stairs, and begin his unsupervised ascent. And now he’s beginning to imitate Jason and Tyler more, so he begun to climbing up the stairs on the OUTSIDE of the banister. Luckily, he didn’t get too far up. He also wants to climb on top of Jason and Tyler’s playhouse and jump off (he gets no help on doing this).
In any case, we hope everyone down south had an equally enjoyable Thanksgiving. You were all in our thoughts…!
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shades
Dylan’s too cool for his own shades, but his cousin’s are ok by him!
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