First Roller Coaster

2 years, 3 1/2 months.

We took you to your first miniature golf. That didn't involve a lot of golf.

But the golf place had a carousel. You love carousels so we figured that would salvage the day. While your mom was buying a ticket you saw their kiddie roller coaster. "Train!" "Caterpillar!"

Sure enough, 2 and above can ride.

So you and your mom went. You went wee and raised you hands at the start. I think the top the roller coaster was a couple feet taller then I was, but you loved it.

Of course, if you mom and I were really good parents we'd have pictures. But we're really not good at that. Maybe we'll try to re-enact the occasion later this week.

First Joke

Last night you told your first joke.

We were out to dinner with Aunt Heather, Uncle Scott, and most importantly Cousin Mitchie at the beach. Mitch was telling jokes, some of his favorites being knock-knock jokes.

Then you decide to get into the act: "ding dong"

"Who's there?"

"Moooo." You say.

"Moo who?"

"That's a cow."

Pretty funny, first joke.

First Milk Shake

This actually happened a while ago, for some reason I thought about it this morning.

You had a sore throat and weren't eating so your doctor suggested that we should feed you a milk shake so we went down to the crepe's place in the Kentlands. You didn't even want to try it. Somewhere along the line we decided to let you run around a little in the plaza there. With me chasing around behind you trying to get you to eat milk shake. You finally decided to have some and decided you liked it. By that time the milkshake had turned into soup. Combined with your instance on running around while eating the milkshake, you ended up with half of it on your shirt.

Don't get any bright ideas from this though. No precedent is intended by letting a sick 18 month old run around eating a milk shake. Sometimes you just got to do what you got to do.

First Carousel

So, we went to a family day carnival at Glen Echo Park this weekend. They promised balloon animals and puppet shows and they have a carousel, so we figured that sounded fun.

Turns out that's all they had, but the carousel was worth waiting for. It only cost $1 a person and we just missed out on the ride before us so we got your first choice of animal, lion. Giraffe was the back-up animal.

You had a silly grin on your face the entire ride. Which was quite fast and Mommy had a headache already from the bad weather moving in and nearly got sick.

But it was all worth it.

First Kite

We went to the playground this last weekend... Adventure Playground. They have practically a life-sized castle and pirate ship but your favorite part was watching the kites.

There is a decent hill there and the wind can be pretty good. You thought the kites were great. So the next day we went to Target and got you your first kite. You picked the Penguin over the Fish or Dragon. (Although when we got to the cash register you made a late appeal for the Dragon that was denied.)

Of course that day was the least windy day on record. But out we went anyways. Watching me drag the kite behind me to catch the little bit of wind trying to stay aloft for more then 30 seconds was actually quite entertaining for you. Maybe because your favorite part was helping to pick up the kite after it fell. You'd say "I pick up" and run over to the the kite and carefully pick up part of the tail then put it back down. Then you'd go back over to where Mommy was sitting. "I sit next (to Mommy)."

I can't wait to get the kite up in decent breeze.

First Movie

You saw your first movie in a movie theater last Friday. I had the day off of work because our office was being moved from one part of downtown DC to another.

The movie was Meet the Robinsons, a Disney computer animated movie with time travel and just lots of stuff in it. It was the only thing close to a little kids movie out at the time. You did really well. Sat on mommy's lap for some then my lap for some. Had some snacks. Every so often would express your displeasure with an "all done movie" or "I want to go home." But then you'd settle in and watch some more.

The movie wasn't really that great, certainly no Cars, which is your favorite movie of all time.

First Hebrew

Second night of Passover was last night.

The table was singing Dayeinu and you kept coming up to your Mom and asking to sing. Of course you did not know the words. But by the end of the song, you had started to figure out the repetitive chorus and ventured a very credible try at "dayeinu."

Your first ever Hebrew.

For the record (and the non-Jews in the audience) the song lyrics:

Ilu hotsi - hotsiyanu, mimitzrayim hotsiyanu - velo asah bahem shvatim - Dayenu.

Chorus:
Dai-dai-yenu (x3) Dai-yenu, dai-yenu, dayeinu! Dai-dai-yenu (x3) Dai-yenu, dai-yenu!

Dayeinu means it would have been enough.