Pizza Party!
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On Saturday, the day after his real birthday, we threw a pizza party! Glenn was very specific about this, when we asked him what kind of party he wanted, he would say ‘pizza!!!’. Months in advance, and he never changed his mind. Pizza is his favorite thing, so the choice was clear, a pizza party it is! Here is the invite:
In total we invited about 8 kids and 14 adults. It was a packed house! Luckily, the weather was great, so we got an extra long sprinkler and the kids had a blast playing in the backyard in the water.
We had red/white and green balloons, and streamers. Karyn provided some genuine Italian opera music to play in the background.
Kate and Glenn riding a noodle.
Kaia having a blast!
Boaz swinging a noodle.
Lizzy dressed for the occasion, as always!
Ann Marie and Aimee.
Karyn and Brittany.
Our lovely neighbors!
A red/green snack, water melon! Brian is having a piece.
After some outside play, we called 4 kids inside to make a pizza! Each kid got a red apron, a white chef’s hat and a rolling pin. Then they each got a piece of dough to roll out. We had several different toppings on the table, including ham, pineapple, mini pepperoni’s, bell peppers, mushrooms and lots of cheese. Here are pictures of each of the kids making their pizza. You can click on them to enlarge them.
There was one blurry picture, I am assuming that was Brian, sorry Brian!!! He did a great job too, putting all the toppings on! I like tehse two pictures of Kate and Ryan choosing their toppings carefully:
Such a pro!
Here are the final results:
Boaz gives it an “oooh good!”
We ordered pizza for the parents, since we didn’t have the oven power to make that many pizza’s!
After the pizza, there was cake! Glenn got to blow out TWO candles!
This picture cracks me up, he was so tired!! Haha. A lovely family picture.
[VIDEO HERE OF GLENN BLOWING OUT HIS CANDLES!]
After the cake there were presents, lots of them!
And the babies: Picture of Ryan in his chef’s hat!
The party aftermath.. we found real pizza in Glenn’s kitchen oven, ha!
We thought about filming the house after the party was over, set to some dramatic Italian opera, but we thought the images were too shocking to show. BUT Glenn had a blast at his pizza party!!! We thank everyone for coming and for giving Glenn awesome birthday gifts!!
I’m Two!
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On Friday May 4th, Glenn turned TWO! We started off the day with a package from Oma and Opa. They sent Glenn some yummy Dutch treats, a few books and colorings books, an art pad and a cool Dutch hat!
We also gave him a few of his main presents, a kitchen, a tool set and a hobby horse!
I got him the tool set because he always uses his vet/ doctors tools on his cars! But… then I caught him using the tools on his bear, ha!
Poor bear! In the morning, Tullia and Brian came over to help us make an authentic Italian birthday cake!! This was SO much fun. Glenn loved watching her and tasting the yummy custard filling. (Which tasted just like Dutch vla, I need this recipe!!)
Tasting the custard and Nutella chocolate fillings.
In the afternoon, Lizzy came over to play with his new kitchen, she got Glenn a cute Curious George bear. Later that afternoon, Aunt Kara, Kate, Terry and Ryan came over to stay.
Glenn and Kate having fun in the pool in the backyard, while Justin is grilling some Fajita’s for dinner.
Watching TV with Uncle Terry, Aunt Kara and Kate.
Later that night, I put the rest of the birthday cake together, three layers!
Layer 1, a vanilla/ lemon custard. Yumm!!!
The second layer, a chocolate Nutella spread.
The final ‘Pizza’ cake and cupcakes, with fondant toppers made for us by Brittany’s friend Michelle, who works at Anne’s Kitchen Cakes! (The same place where we got Glenn’s pirate cake from last year). How awesome is that! Let the pizza party begin!!!
Counting Mushrooms
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This video was taken last week, when we were cutting up veggies for a pot roast. I was going to video him talking about his upcoming birthday party, when I caught him counting to 5! He can now count up to 7 objects. I can’t believe how fast he is picking up on things.
Bikes and Boogers
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We bought Glenn this three wheeler bike with a push bar. We take it out to go and check the mail sometimes in the afternoon. He is not too crazy about riding the bike in general, he would rather push it! He has been able to make the peddles go round for awhile, but when I would ask him to go by himself, he would give up. Until two weeks ago, when he just did it! Here he is riding his bike, while also ringing his bell and cracking a joke. Ha!
Dry Overnight!
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As always I am really behind on blogging, so much I still need to post! And we’ve had Glenn’s birthday already too.. Last week marked the first week that Glenn stayed dry all night! Here he is showing off his shark undies that match his shark PJ’s. When we first started potty training, he started to wake up at night, requesting to go potty, but we still let him drink water so he had a few accidents. We put him in pull-ups, which was a big mistake! Eventually he just started going in the pull-ups. Then about two weeks ago, he just stopped asking for water, so we decided to go for it. Now he will sleep from 8 until about 4AM, when he wakes up to go potty. Then he stays dry until the morning. Yay!!! No more diapers and pull-ups at all!
Glenn proudly showing off his shark undies.
First Sentence
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I thought he said something earlier in the day, that start with “I”, but I wasn’t sure. Then he was in the bathtub taking a bath after dinner. He dropped one of his pirates, picked it up and said:
“I got the pirate!”
I think that might be his first real sentence! He doesn’t use the word ‘I’ very often, and still refers to himself as ‘you’ a lot of times. He has started to tell ‘stories’ where he rambles on, stringing up to 10 words together sometimes, like “mommy… more… please… milk…”. But these are mostly word phrases, and rarely does he use small function words like articles or pronouns. But he did today!
You can see a list of Glenn’s major milestones that we kept track of here (and in the side bar under ‘milestones’).
Zilker Zephyr
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Yesterday we took the kids to the Zilker Zephyr, a train ride at the downtown park Barton Springs. We had been once before with Glenn, but missed the train ride. He loved the train! Especially the tunnel… the zoo train does not have a tunnel and this one goes through two tunnels, one of them really dark. Glenn was still talking about it when we got home, he now calls everything he can crawl under a ‘tunnel’, the dining room table is a tunnel and his slide is a tunnel too, so funny!
The Zilker Zephyr.
Glenn, Britanny and Lizzy talking on the train!
A nice lady asked to take our group picture. Glenn looks a bit sour, I think he was saying ‘cheese’.
Lizzy on the train..
Glenn on the train, always eating of course.
But the tunnel was the best part…
So cool!
Brit and Liz in the tunnel…
Back at the park!
Having a watermelon snack at the park after the ride. That was fun! Lizzy kept asking for ‘more choo choo!’.
Good Earth Farm School
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We went to the open house at the Good Earth Farm school last weekend, with Tullia and Brian. This is a Waldorf inspired pre-school not too far from us. The school is surrounded by a farm, so each morning the kids start out with farm chores, feeding the pigs and goats and the other animals, picking eggs for lunch, etc… they prepare organic lunches themselves each day and the lunch menus are posted on their blog, which they keep everyday too. Their policy is to not send kids to school in clothes that can’t get dirty.. love that. And they even have a climbing tree in the backyard! This school just looks to good to be true!
I never considered sending Glenn to school this early, I wanted to wait until he was 5 or 6, but… it turns out Glenn is very social. He is always asking to play with other kids, wants to play with the homeschool kids down the street and the neighborhood ‘boys’, and he can run off and play and not even notice I am gone! So independant, so now we are wondering… he is on the wait list and we might start him on a two day program next year. Here are some photos:
This is the school on the left.
Watching a sheep being sheared at the back of the school. He loved touching the wool!
Making piggy noises at the pot belly pig.
Doing crafts outside.
Looking at all the mud boots.
Playing in the kitchen. All materials are natural and wood, no plastic here!
Brian is starting here in the Fall, he would defintely already know a few kids here.
It is just good to know that there is a school I would feel comfortable sending him to, now when we will is the question…
Haircut Story
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So after a few months of me trying to cut Glenn’s hair myself, Justin told me I should probably bring him back to the hairdressers to loose the flowerpot look that was slowly developing. So we went back to Pigtails and Crewcuts, I was a bit worried because he hadn’t been in a long time. But he did great! he chose the airplane seat, and was making airplane noises. The hairdresser had to tell him several times to sit still! He would laugh and laugh…
Making airplane noises and turning the wheel..
After the haircut (it looks so good!!!) we went and got a smoothie and sat down by the bookstore. Here is a video of Glenn talking about his haircut experience. He is getting better and better at re-telling an event, here he remembers that she washed his hair first, and then combed it and he talks about the noises the ‘airplane car’ made.
Pretzel Art
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I discovered that pretzel dough is just like pizza dough, with some cheese added. We invited Lizzy over for a Pretzel Art party! We made some pretzel dough and rolled it into long noodles. Then Glenn and Lizzy folded them into pretzel shapes.
Glenn and Lizzy folding the dough
Tadaa!!! All done!
Are they done yet?
Glenn’s creations, one of them actually looks like a pretzel! The others.. well…
Giving the pretzel that looked most like a pretzel to our plumber, who was installing our new water heater that day. (Which broke last weekend, everything in the garage got wet!)
And here a cute pic of the two of them reading Glenn’s Kids Geo magazine. They are always kissing and hugging, so cute!!!
They always have so much fun together!
