I have been sick since Monday. Last night Z came home from day care and declared that he was going to heal me :) This apparently involved bringing me hot tea and covering me with a blanket. The added bonus was a pat on the legs (in a sort of...there, there fashion). Once all the healing was completed, the animal happily ran off to play in his ( Read more... )

Z can read!!!! He read 6 sentences last night. Things like ( Read more... )

According to Z...when asked what english words mean in russian
Big boy translates to Soldier

Apple juice is a NAME of a juice instead of a type(i.e. Mama dai mne cok katoriy nazivayetsa apple juice)

will add some more as soon as I remember them

the 5 AM wake up call is going to make me batty, very very soon (as in NOW). If Z does not stop getting up at 5 AM every morning and throwing major hissy fits over everything, mommy is going to go nuts. Fair warning!

Yesterday...
Zach: I spent 3 days and 2 night thinking
Dina: What were you thinking about?
Zach: You buy money at the bank
Dina: What do you need money for?
Zach: I'll think about that

Since it's been pouring rain here...no park...no running...and lots of energy...I decided to do an art project. Considering that I am a lot of things but not artistic...I decided that getting dirty was almost as good as producing a work of art...therefore...we did papier mache...loved it...a great excuse to get dirty. Zach were his painting ( Read more... )

How do you prepare for being a parent? How do you know if your actions today will cause your kid to have a nervous tick or not to talk to you when he hits 13? How can you predict? How ( Read more... )

it has been a truly interesting weekend. Saturday was what amounted to our valentines day celebration. This ended up being a trip to the Himalayan yak house. And yes there is in fact a place in queens crowned with such a name. It happens to be the place where yours truly ordered some ridiculously hot pickles that can fall an average man. In ( Read more... )

I think Zach might have just potty trained himself. Today he said to me, I want to put on underwear. I have been showing him this cute pair of Thomas the Train underwear for a while now but he was not interested. Today, I did not even show them to him, he came up with it on his own. I said that he could have them as long as he was a big boy and ( Read more... )

My big boy started dance a week ago. This morning was the second class. He very proudly pointed his toe, ran around swinging his hands like a butterfly, did a lovely cartwheel and generally looked absolutely adorable doing an impression of tap dancing. For this he received a sticker which I think was the best part of the class for him. For me ( Read more... )