The White Sox

A: The White Sox won last night. It was the longest World Series game in history.
J: Oh. You know what my favorite team is? The Red Sox because I like red. You who plays the night games? The White Sox, the Red Sox, Black Sox, Yellow Sox, Blue Sox, and even Green Sox. They call them the Mixed Sox.

Raccoon

J: Does Margaret like raccoons? I will ask her at school. I will ask her what she wants to be for Halloween & if she says a raccoon, I will say, "OK, I will be a raccoon too."

In truth, Margaret will be a sunflower for Halloween, but Julien has decided that he will be a raccoon (he changed his mind briefly and wanted to be a kitten, but he went back to raccoon). I have been working on the ears & fur vest and there are now little bits of fur floating throughout the house. We will be trick-or-treating with Margaret again this year.

Dig

This last weekend we went to the Dinosphere with Julien's friend Marco(who was born on the same day as Julien). Julien spent a long time in the fossil dig talking with the docent about the gorgosaurus they were in the process of digging out.

Sweet Sleeping

Doesn't he look sweet sleeping? I couldn't resist.

Allosaurus Pinata

This Pinata was sold as a T-rex, however it has three fingers on each hand when it should actually have only two. Julien decided it was actually an allosaurus, which does have three fingers per hand.

Dinosaur Party

Everyone had a great time at Julien's Dinosaur Birthday Party, although Julien cried a couple times (it was a little overwhelming. His biggest complaint was that I had snuck one of the plastic dinosaurs that was supposed to be in the pinata and instead put it on the cake-and it looked so cute!). When it was all over he complained that it was too short. I can understand; all that planning and then it seems over in a minute. We had a dinosaur dig where kids dug for little plastic dinosaur fossils. Then everyone was given a pterosaur glider. The kids loved the gliders! When we opened the presents the kids got in so close there was hardly breathing room. At four kids understand presents at a whole new level. We finished off the day with a pinata. The kids loved it. In the pictures where kids other than Julien are whacking the pinata you can see Julien in the background pretending to swing the bat. He was very enthusiastic about it.

Julien's B-day

Julien is four! We had a very nice birthday, cupcakes in the class room and a mellow birthday at home. He was very happy with all his presents, but not overwhelmed.
When I was putting him to bed the night before his birthday he said "tonight I will grow to four size!"

This weekend his friends are coming over for a dinosaur birthday party- eleven kids!! (what was I thinking?)