Labor Day weekend 2014, the kids have Friday off so we went to Pretend City in Irvine.
The best part was Tucker driving a police car while I pulled Emilia in a wagon. We went to every “work place” and filled out a time card, which we then turned in for “money”.
Emilia loves the stage. They both took turns with the guitar. I found Tucker to be reminiscent of Frampton Comes Alive while Emilia was more Hendrix @ Monterey.
Saturday we went to a movie followed by Korean BBQ. If nothing else, our children will be well versed in different types of foods.
Sometimes I feel pretty guilty for not updating this site more. But then I remember that I have two, very young children and well, #life. But I wanted to take a second and document a little bit about Emilia at age 2.
First and foremost, she’s a cuddler. She can often be seen walking around with two or three blankets crushed against her face. One of her favorite things to do is walk around the house with the blanket over her head. In this cuddle huddle, she might also have a dolly, a pony or anything else remotely fuzzy. Sometimes she will look you in the eye and repeatedly wrap her little arms around your neck and just hug, hug, hug. She’s also started saying “i love you” at what feels like an early age (to us, anyway).
But on the other side of that, boy does this child have a temper. She is aggressive. It’s hard for me to tell if Tucker wasn’t as aggressive because he stopped when we asked him or if it’s because he didn’t have someone to beat on. Emilia abuses her big brother. Granted, it doesn’t often hurt him so he doesn’t stop her. Which makes it all the harder to curb the behavior. Also, she’s kinda sneaky about it.
If there’s anything else I want to mention about my daughter, it’s that she is fearless. They say the first child is pretty cautious, and that may be true, because we never saw this type of behavior with Tucker. At 18 months Emilia would happily flip off couches, jump off anything and climb questionable structures. I believe she’s happiest when inverted. But perhaps that’s my speculation. Either way, this kid is going in gymnastics pretty soon.
Other quick facts: LOVES SALT, Toy Story, cranky when waking, fan of: bacon, cars, sleep and anything to do with the animals. Especially petting, feeding and cuddling.
Tucker Watson is 4 1/2 and lately, he’s been dropping some big words. “Actually” has been a favorite for a while now but recently he told me that an episode of Wild Kratts was “really interesting”. Also, last week when he met the Math teacher at my school, Dean Schonfeld, he told him that “he’s been in the shark room for a while, technically”. Getting that “technically” out of his mouth was no small feat, so I high fived him on the spot.
That’s my boy!
