We used vintage Star Wars molds to make all the Vaders, Leias, Lukes and R2D2s we needed in pink, blue, and green.
Ezri made up the game where you wear play dough on your nose.
Ivan did it with his favorite green play dough.
Another collection of words that have come from Ivan.
“I am making latkes!” The kids turned the play bagels felt side up to be Hanukkah latkes.
“Hello, Manchi-moo, it’s me Cyborg!” Manchi is our cat. Ivan was pretending to be Cyborg.
“Look, rainbow moons!” After looking at the sun Ivan explained that he could now see many rainbow moons in the sky.
As we were Trick-or-Treating:
“Let’s go to that house to see if there are grown-ups at home to put candy in my bucket.”
While putting Ivan to bed the day after Halloween:
i: I do not like this night.
A: Why?
i: I like Halloween night.
“Let’s make a family ice cream. You be the cone. I be the ice cream. Ezri is the CHERRY!” It worked fine when Ivan crawled onto me, but failed when the cherry tried to get on top of the ice cream.
“I call this rocking moose Bucking Bronco!”
“Can I have another horsey kiss?” (Hershey kiss sounds like horsey when Ivan says it.)
“Poo-dolph the Purple Nosed Paindeer Pad a perry piney pose!” – alternate lyrics brought to you by the Letter P
“I am gonna pick off your head and spin it like a dreidel.” He was playing with playmobil knights whose heads pop off pretty easily, but still. . .
When he found one of his old pacifiers, “Dat’s my binky. Did I put that in my mouth when I was a baby?” Yes, you did, Ivan. When you were a baby was about a month ago that you gave up your pacifier even at night for real and forever.
Lighting the menorah
Basking in the glow
Storytime on the futon
Max monkey under the tree.
Our tree all lit up!
The first ornaments on the tree which were made by Ivan and Ezri.
The tree decorating team on their stepstool.
Ivan likes the idea of pie. He loves making cobbler and asks to make “apple cobbler pie” often. He does enjoy the mixing, but does not want to eat either pie or cobbler. He likes making it “for Ezri.”
Cookies he loves. You can see the anticipation of cookie eating in the photo above.
Today we baked banana bread. Unlike his sister, he is not interested in licking the mixing implements clean of the sugary batter. He will eat as many pieces of the finished product as he is allowed.
Ivan loves stomping in the snow. He loves throwing snow.
He does not love when his hands get wet and cold.
May need to convince him to wear more substantial mittens.
Play dough pie making with a friend
This is not yet taller than Ivan.
Now it is taller than Ivan.
